Stacey Solomon fights back tears as she shares update on beloved dog Teddy after shock diagnosisSource: Stacey Solomon
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00:00I know you've all been asking and worrying about Teddy and I'm so grateful for him just being in
00:04your thoughts and stuff he is home um I got to bring him home last week so he made it through
00:09the operation and through the period of time where it was the highest risk following the
00:16operation and I got to bring him home and I'm just sorry I haven't been on here I've been trying to
00:19get my head around things and also I'm I'm not a good crier like I'm not a good in-person
00:25like I hate crying in front of people and I just know if I'd have come on I'd have just cried I've
00:29cried a lot um so I've just tried to like keep myself away from any human contact so I can just
00:37cry alone I don't know why I'm like that I just don't love to cry um in front of people um but
00:45yeah Teddy is home I'm so grateful he's home um he made it through the operation and then he made
00:54it through the period um that everyone was really worried about and I got to bring him home so I was
01:00so happy I'm so grateful that he is with us still um obviously he's really not well still and has had
01:09major surgery so I have moved my work to work from home and cancelled some things so that I can
01:16try and help him recover so he has I do physio with him every day and I have to express his bladder
01:23throughout the day and he's on medication um expressing his bladder has been a whole humbling
01:29experience like that has made me cry on a number of occasions because I just felt like I was it and
01:35doing a job for Teddy and just being a really dog mum um because I couldn't I felt like I couldn't do it
01:42um at first I couldn't find it and I wasn't doing it properly but I feel like I finally have got to a
01:48place with that where I feel like I'm doing a half decent job um he's on crate rest and this
01:55routine is for the next four weeks at least um and then he goes in for a check-up and we see where
01:59we go from there he might never fully recover and this might be Teddy forever um but he also might
02:06get some feeling back and then his care will change like I don't know so I'm just taking every day as it
02:13comes and trying to do my best because I just want to give him his best chance at like living a happy
02:19life I don't even think I've said what happened to him have I so on Good Friday um he lost the use of
02:26his back legs like that night he just crawled in and we were like what the hell he'd been running around
02:30all day like no signs of pain not sort of like curled up asleep or anything like that just bam
02:36couldn't use his back legs and was like dragging himself around so I obviously took him straight to
02:40the vet um and everywhere was out of hours because it was Good Friday and she said look it's it could
02:46be meningitis it could be a slip disc it could be a tumor like we don't know we have to get an MRI but
02:53there was nowhere available with an MRI until the next day in Cambridge so I literally just left him
02:59in the vet on medication and they monitored him until I could take him to Cambridge as soon as it opened
03:04and the earliest appointment the next morning I took him in and they did the MRI and she was just like
03:10he has got he's had he's had a burst disc but all of his disc and all of his spine is not looking
03:18good at all she was like if you look at all the discs they're all worn away and they're all
03:24like really bad like not good the one there is one that has burst but that disc itself looked so feeble
03:31like outside of the fluid as well I was like have I done something like did I drop him did I
03:37like I was like what like have I done something as traumatic happened that I don't know about and
03:44she was like he could have literally turned his head fast to look out the window and that disc would
03:49have gone and been like bam she said it's so degenerated um like it's not good and all of them look
03:57really not healthy so she says it's like a predisposed condition that he has um no matter what
04:03he was going to get it and then it's just really unlucky and it does happen I always assumed it
04:08was like a sausage dog thing so we look out for that stuff with peanut and put and have things in
04:13place but I didn't realize it was also common in spaniels um but it is and yeah so that's that
04:22basically what happened and then he had the operation um and yeah we'll just have to see how it goes
04:28from here there is like a 30 chance he might recover fully but there's also a massive chance
04:34that he's going to be um disabled and unable to um urinate for himself and involuntary poos and
04:43yeah we'll need like a lot of physio and a lot of help for the rest of his life so I'm just trying
04:49to like get my head around that and work out like what I can do for him and how I can give him his best
04:54chance and love him as much as possible and try and make him as happy and as comfortable as possible