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May 16, 2002 Dog's Liver Operation
Saves Choking Baby
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BELLPORT, NY (USA) — It's
interesting how bad liver can lead to a steak dinner. See if
you can follow this one:
A woman borrows $5,000 to pay for an operation to remove a tumor
from her dog's liver, even though the vet has told her, "Why
would you go into debt to save a 13-year-old dog? He's going
to die soon anyway."
They go through with the operation, regardless, and
"Bullet" the Golden Retriever pulls through just
fine. But wait; that's not the end of the story.
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Minutes later an ambulance arrived and rushed the infant
to the Emergency Department at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in Patchogue,
where his condition was stabilized. Troy was later transferred to
Stony Brook University Hospital where he was diagnosed with pneumonia in
both lungs and held over for two weeks to recuperate.
"The paramedics told us that if we had found Troy 10
seconds later, something terrible could have happened," Ms. Sica says.
"Bullet saved his life."
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Two years later, the 43-year-old woman, Pam Sica, goes through a
complicated pregnancy and miraculously gives birth to a healthy baby
boy, Troy Joseph. No, that's not the end of the story,
either. A month later (two weeks ago) at 4:30am, she leaves the
baby in the bedroom and goes to the kitchen to heat up a bottle.
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Here's a wireless baby monitor that runs all night, doesn't need
batteries and knows how to fetch a tennis ball.
"Bullet" has been called a hero for alerting Pam Sica to baby
Troy's choking. (Photo: Alejandra Villa / Newsday)
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Old Bullet (now 15) comes charging in, barking, jumping and running
back and forth between rooms until Pam follows him back and finds
her infant blue and gasping for air.
"I ran into the bathroom and got my husband out of the
shower," she recounts. "My husband started to do ... CPR,
but the dog was right there the whole time."
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Yesterday, Troy came back from his two-week stay at the
hospital and was welcomed home by his furry rescuer.
And that night, Bullet got his steak dinner.
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Sources
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Associated Press,
"Frantic dog saves baby",
1010Wins
16 May 2002
GIVENS, Ann
"A Life-Saving Bullet"
Newsday
16 May 2002
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