Frankie’s Friends Hope Fund helped Allie receive the lifesaving surgery she needed to remove a foreign object from her stomach at BluePearl in Oklahoma City. This is an update from Allie’s family.
“I cannot even thank you all enough for helping us with Allie. I would be happy to share our Allie journey with you. We got her from a woman who was rehoming her on Facebook. They said her mom had rejected the puppies and they had found homes for the others. She was much younger than they had led on and so we started a bottle feeding schedule. We noticed that she always had hiccups, from the time we got her, and figured it was because she ate so fast.
I work from home and was running behind on a virtual appointment one morning. I hopped up and went to grab something before my next meeting and stepped on the black fuzzy blanket in the floor. I didn’t know Allie was wrapped up in it, sleeping. She yelped and I freaked out. We took her to the Yukon Hills Veterinary Clinic to have her checked out and make sure that I didn’t hurt her. The vet came back and said that she was fine from being stepped on but they had found a tiny bottle nipple in her tummy (we also found out that this is why she had hiccups since we got her). They informed us they didnt have the equipment to scope the nipple out of her belly and she was too little to cut her open. They referred us to BluePearl.
When we arrived at BluePearl we were terrified and didn’t know what was going to happen. We just wanted her to be okay. The doctors at BluePearl let us know that she had trauma to her lungs, from being stepped on, and they couldn’t address the tummy until she had spent some time in an oxygen kennel. I had just started a new job after being off for some time with Covid and onboarding for my new position. We were concerned that our lack of funding would make it to where we couldn’t help our sweet puppy. She became a part of the family the second we met her.
Because of your program, we were able to get her the treatment she needed and brought her home with follow up instructions with our regular veterinarian. Being the week of Christmas, it was such a blessing to know your program existed.
She’s now home with us and her sister, Weenie. She’s back to being a holy terror (as she should be) and we wouldn’t trade it for the world. Thank you SO MUCH for helping us save our baby. We can’t even imagine what our lives would be like if you hadn’t offered the help we needed.
I am attaching pictures of Allie since she’s been home. The last pictures are of her in her oxygen kennel at BluePearl.
Allie and her big sister both say THANK YOU from the bottoms of their sweet hearts and ours.”
