24/12/2022
To anyone that knows me well knows that I'm not the type of person for writing long posts, but this is a story that absolutely needs to be told and shared.
So please take the time to read and share this post as it could save your dogs life too💜
Kia's story.
Kia is a 13 year old lurcher with the sweetest soul, she is a people pleaser and just loves humans, dogs not so much, but that's a different story!!
1 week ago today the nightmare started,
Sunday.. kia is completely fine, her normal self doing zoomies around the garden, jumping up and annoying her sister trying to get her to play!
Monday..
For the first time in her life her tail didn't wag when she seen me come in and she didn't get up to greet me. Hmmm something isn't right here, is she finally starting to slow down in her old age? She seemed a bit stiff but I wasn't too concerned at this point.
Tuesday..
Shes very stiff, hunched over, and her neck didn't appear normal,
Off to the vets, outcome: arthritis, she's an old girl now.
Wednesday..
She tootied down for her morning p*e and her front legs knuckled over, she couldn't squat for a p*e and tumbled over😭
Straight back to the vets, outcome: neck injury, given strong pain killers. She was still walking at this point.
Thursday..
Shes in pain, i can see it in her eyes. She can't walk, front legs have completely knuckled, she's getting worse. Giving the pain killers, anti inflammatory and paracetamol a chance to kick in.
Friday..
A day that I wouldn't wish on anyone😭
Tried to get her to p*e whilst being harnessed and she completely collapsed and soiled herself 😭 this was the point I knew something was seriously wrong and it wasn't looking good.
Straight back to the vets, she was lying lifeless on the vets floor, the only thing moving was her tail,wagging when you said her name.
Outcome: the disc in her neck had gone or a brain tumour. An MRI scan in London or Bristol would cost around £6000 then she would require spinal surgery with months and months of recovery IF she made it off the operating table because of her age costing at least another £10000.
Vets advice. EUTHANASIA
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
We crumbled on to the vets floor completely broken, my heart was shattered, NO it just can't be so final, I mean she hasn't had a single test done!! No bloods, no x-ray NOTHING.
Are you sure there is nothing we can do for her?..... NO, she's too old for the surgery.
I can put her to sleep now...
It was that moment, call it instinct, gut feeling, maternal instincts of just wanting to scoop her up and take her home, I dont know, but that's exactly what I did, I at least wanted to have one last night with her whilst her pain was controlled with meds.
Her EUTHANASIA was booked with the same vet 6pm Monday.
After 1 night I realised I was being selfish, I was keeping her alive for me, so I bought the euthanasia forward to Sunday 9am😭, I was just hoping for a miracle.....and then the MIRACLE happened.
A customer suggested an Animal Chiropractor, to be honest I never knew there was such a thing. At this point I would try anything. We had nothing to lose.
Saturday..
16 hours before euthanasia.
Chris Gubbings ,from Pontyclun Chiropractic Clinic turned up. Kia was completely unable to stand.
Chris... well I dont know how to describe such a lovely human being, one of earth's angels fits the best to describe him. So gentle and compassionate.
He thoroughly checked kia over feeling every single bone in her body. Then he did 2 adjustments. 1 to her neck , 1 to her spine.
The swelling from the disc was compressing the nerves that send signals to the legs
Outcome: within 20 minutes of Chris leaving she was standing without knuckling.
I wasn't being optimistic and was still preparing to say goodbye in the morning , she had her last meal curtesy of steak and stamp , a perfect steak cooked to perfection. (I owe you Stacey!)
5am .4 hours to euthanasia. Crematorium booked night before.
I had fallen asleep on the floor holding her paws, I woke up 5am she was gone, as in wasn't in her bed. Wtf, was I dreaming? Where the hell is she?
Got up and I heard the thud thud of a tail wagging, she was on the bloody armchair!!!
I just stood in shock, confused, just staring at her, I mean how the hell can she go from being unable to walk to jumping up on her own to the armchair...
I was scared to move or even touch her. She would yelp in pain if I had tried the day before.
Do I do it. Dont I do it...
2 hours to euthanasia...
In walks Natalie, she had come to say goodbye to kia with me, as she walked through the door kia shot up got off the chair and walked over to her😭😭😭😭😲
By now we were in tears all over again but confused, shocked tears, she's fighting, she's fighting to get better, it's not her time surely? But the vets said to put her to sleep... were they wrong after all???
1 hour to euthanasia...
Hi i'd like to cancel the euthanasia please.
2 more sessions with Chris (3rd session no adjustments needed) and 1 WEEK later....
Kia has made a 99% recovery🤗😍
She is running around playing, jumping up on the sofa, even though I'm trying to stop her! Shes barking, throwing her toys around again, p*eing and pooing unaided.
She has had no pain meds in 2 days!
She has a slight wobble now and then but thats it!
Now this isn't a post to bad mouth the vets but why??
Why when there was nothing more you could do for her would not just say, maybe you could try a chiropractor??
How many dogs have gone through this extortionatley priced spinal operation, with months of recovery when a chiropractor has cured her?
How many other costly operations could have been avoided?
Why won't a vet recommend a chiropractor? So many questions
£40.
let me say that again
£40 to save her life.
A £40 session stopped me making a decision that I didn't need to all along.
I thought l was bringing her home in ashes😭
Yes she's old, and I know her time will come, but I just knew in my gut this wasn't the time.
Chris we will be eternally grateful for what you have done. I just hope by people sharing this post more people will be aware of your skill and professionalism, and save a lot of people the pain and heartache we have been through this past week.
Please guys for all the dogs out there that could be saved, for those people like myself that even if the vets would have operated I didn't have £20000. Just imagine the guilt you would feel putting them to sleep because you couldn't afford the operation.
Or the debt people would get into for a younger dog to go through the operation..share this post.
It may not work for every dog. We might have just been lucky, but just like me, how will you know if you dont try a chiropractor.
Thank you again Chris, and thank you Natalie Owen for not leaving our side and putting your own back out carrying kia around for a week!💜
