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07/18/00
Small Paws® supporters, send Bungee
to the
Texas A&M Vet School, for
heart surgery!!!
(The Texas A&M Fight Song
is playing!)
Bungee is a Little Bichon, born
April 9,
2000, into a Puppy Mill, with
a grade 6 heart
murmor. He needed corrective
surgery, or
he would have died.
SEE BUNGEE ON VIDEO!!!
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Small Paws® Rescue: First, Bungee goes to
Oklahoma State University Vet School
See Bungee's Medical Records from Texas A&M,
Including his Ultrasound!
Bungee eyes a package, that Joy brought for
him, when she met us at the Denver
airport.
Jack and Joy Flora, (jflora@uswest.com)
donated
the air travel for Bungee and
me.:) In the
package was a stuffed little
hedgehog, as
well as a cash donation, for
our trip. Thank
you Joy and Jack!.:)
Little Bungee plays with his stuffed hedgehog,
at the hotel,Tuesday night, in Austin. The
good news is, he has no idea there is anything
wrong with his little heart...:)
What do you MEAN, "Get outta
that suitcase?!!!"
Texas A&M Veterinary School
Small Animal
Clinic
4th year Vet Student, Kimberly,
holds little
Bungee.
Bungee chews on a chewy, while
he is examined
by Kimberly...:)
Bungee's Cardiologist, Dr. Gordon,on
the
right, and Kimberly. We just
LOVE Dr. Gordon!
A HUGE Thank you to the Copper/Chris
fund,
at Texas A&M Veterinary Teaching
Hospital!
The director of the hospital is Mr. Hank
C. Reinhard, Jr. Yesterday, he studied Bungee's
case and made sure that his case met all
of the criteria, set forth by the wonderful
woman who began this special fund.
He told me how the fund, came
to be about.
It seems, there was a young man,
who wanted
to be a vet. He was in vet school
at Texas
A&M. Some of his buddies,
and he, were
out one night, hauling something
for a friend,
in a pick-up truck. The load
they were carrying,
was light..something like cardboard,
he said,
and Chris, the young vet student,
volunteered
to get in the back of the pick-up
and lie
down on top of it, to keep it
from flying
out of the truck. It was only
several hours
later, that his friends found
out, that Chris,
had flown out of the truck too,
and had been
killed.
The lady, Mrs. Copper Thompson,
is a friend
of Chris' mother, and when Chris
died, Mrs.
Thompson established this special
fund, for
special cases, to be helped by
the Texas
A&M Vet School.
It has to be a case where, the
dog or cat
(or any small animal) is well
cared for.
The animal has to have a home
to go back
to. And, it has to be a surgery
or treatment,
that will save the animals life...a
diagnosis
that, would be otherwise, life
threatning.
Our little Bungee met all of those requirements,
and the Copper/Chris fund, has graciously
donated $300.00 towards his bill. I will
be sending Mrs. Copper Thompson, a personal
Thank You card, along with pictures of Baby
Bungee, to let her know what her good work
is accomplishing.:)
We didn't really have all of
the money raised,
when I left Tulsa. I was praying
it would
come through while I was gone.
Care to guess
the amount we were short? You
guessed it....$300.00.
Now I never told the vet school,
the amount
we were short. They just told
me, the amount
they could give, to help us.:)
If you would like to e-mail,
Hank Reinhard,
the man who made the decision
to help Bungee
with the Copper/Chris fund, his
e-mail addy
is... hreinhard@cvm.tamu.edu
Bungee will have the surgery, tomorro at
between 9-11 A.M...updates to follow!
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Update 7/20/00
Bungee came through surgery with flying colors,
this morning! I gave the digital camera to
the student, to take back there, right after
surgery, while he was still in ICU, and coming
out of the anethsesia. I don't think the
flash went off, but here is our baby Bungee,
right after the life saving surgery!
More updates to follow...:)
Update 7/21/2000
Today I visited Bungee, and he was bouncing
up and down just like his name!
Here is where
they did the surgery...
There are just two stitches on
his thigh.
They will disolve, and he doesn't
have to
see a vet, again for this, for
one full year.
In one year, they want him to
have an ultrasound
again, just to make sure everything
is holding.:)
So far..each one they have done,
has continued
to hold, and work! Bungee is
expected to
live a full, normal life, with
no other problems.:)
They have an Elizabethan Collar
on him.,
becasue he keeps trying to eat
his stitches...he
is one happy boy!
Look at the tail wagging.
Bungee pretty much wrapped the staff around
his little paw, while he was a patient at
Texas A&M. Our precious vet student,
Kimberly, holds little Bungee for a picture.
He will be discharged tomorro morning, and
we will drive back to Austin.
UPDATE 7/22/00
Bungee was discharged from the hospital today!
We drove back to Austin, and
checked into
the hotel. Our plane leaves at
7:35 A.M in
the morning.
Bungee shows no sign of having
anything happen
to him! He is a 100% normal baby
Bichon.:)
His new Mama, Sandy, has been
worried sick
about him, asking about him sveral
times
a day....I think...he is gonna
have it made
in the shade with Sandy.:)
Bungee plays with his hedgehog,
in the hotel
room. The Elizabethan collar,
is to keep
him from eating his two stitches.
That hedgehog must die.
Hedgehog killin' is hard work.
July 23 UPDATE
Bungee and I were upgraged to First Class
again, on our way back to Tulsa.:)
Joy and Jack Flora, the couple who donated
their United Airline milage to us, met us
again at the airport, during our Denver layover.
Jack visits with Bungee.Thank you so very
much Jack and Joy!
We also had the priveledge of meeting Pam
Knight,of Bichons Only! ,who lives near Denver. She brought us a HUGE
gift sack with all sorts of Bichon merchandise!
Thank you Pam!!
Bungee went back to his Tulsa foster home,
with Angela and Wayne, last night. Thier
two teen aged daughters were so happy to
see him back! Then one of them said something so touching to
me...I told them that Bungee's new Mama,
had asked if I would need a crow bar to pry
Bungee away from his foster family, and she
ansered, "If we kept this one...we wouldn't
have room for the next one, and if we had
kept the last one...we wouldn't have had
room for baby Bungee"....(From the mouth
of babes.:)
Thanks to ALL who assisted in this rescue
effort. Bungee will have a long and happy
life, thanks to so many of YOU! Thank you
again!!!
UPDATE!
August 2, 2000
Bungee Flies to His Forever Home in Sunny
California!!
Update! 9/08/00
A Letter from Bungee's Mom
Bungee
Bungee with his new Mom Sandy, at the Tulsa
airport.
Bungee in the arms of his new Dad
Subj: Another "Forever" Mom with
a Texas A & M Miracle
Date: 9/7/2000 11:20:56 PM Central Daylight
Time
From: LitlSybil
To: ChewbeccaD
CC: Pup3
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Dear Rebecca,
I've just learned that you're adopting Rolex
and thought I should write to you to offer
whatever support I can through this trying
time. I'm the person who was fortunate, blessed
even, to adopt Bungee the little love that
captured all our hearts when he came to Robin
with such a terrible heart problem. So many
sent good wishes, prayers and financial assistance
to get him through. I knew from the moment
I laid eyes on him that no matter what, I
had to have him. He's here tumbling on the
floor with Sparky (my darling 5 year old
Bichon) and doesn't have a clue that he's
half the size of Sparky, if that, and that
the rest of the world does NOT have boundless
energy. It just doesn't seem possible that
this operation could possibly be so marvelous
that not only does it give them life, but
a normal life. By now Bungee would be very
close to dying but instead he is so full
of life with not a care in the world, no
shortness of breath, no signs at all that
a little over a month ago he was in awful
shape and would die without the procedure.
I just want you to know that I'm out here
and stand ready to help you any way I can.
The prognosis is excellent after this surgery
and you should be able to enjoy his long
life just as normally as if he'd never had
a problem. They asked that he have an EKG
for their records down at Texas A & M
but he's not required to be followed by a
heart specialist at all. I've found one in
Los Angeles and he'll be going there for
his cardiac checkup.
I truly believe that these little ones are
here to make us better people. So many people
gave so much to save his life that that simple
gift of love will make many more miracles
possible as we go out and try to pay back
with good deeds. I love my little guy with
all my heart and a day doesn't go by that
I don't think about the people who cared.
You're about to get that same gift and he'll
be all the more precious to you because you'll
know that his life came from a pure act of
love by people for a gentle little soul.
I'll be thinking of you, be brave and he'll
be home with you in no time. I know you're
a special person because Robin has chosen
you. I'm very happy for you, you're getting
such a precious gift. With love, Sandy
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