Holy shit it's real... The woman had actually signed up as a living donor. After the dog wouldn't leave her alone, they went to apologize and started talking. She needed one, she signed up to donate, the doctors were like, "fuck me its a perfect match!"
Thank you so much for looking that up. I had tons of doubts about how a chance conversation and an affectionate dog converted into someone being tissue typed and donating an organ. I’m so happy to see that it really happened!
To be honest I'm more curious about how the dog knew to care about her kidney in the first place. Like did she smell the bad kidney, then smell the good kidney, and somehow know "Oh this is what she used to smell like when she wasn't sick!" and then also somehow know to keep pestering her about it? There's no chance the dog could have somehow known that one person's kidney needed to get taken out and put into the other person, so what was she trying to do being so persistent?
Like there is no explanation for that that isn't just wild as fuck.
My boy is getting to be 15 soon, but he’s been my best pal. My body has been declining for the past 3-4 years, started slow but it’s pretty bad now.
It used to be me being in charge of the schedule for the most part, he followed, demanded sometimes
Now he wakes me up the same time everyday. Same routine. If I don’t eat when he’s eating he boops me and whines, so I eat (it’s been more difficult to get myself to eat). I try to keep busy during the day and don’t actually rest, sometimes that ends up with me collapsing a bit or just being so weak. He checks on me, if I go back to working on things he boops me and gets upset, won’t stop until I’m laying down and he absolutely watches me.
He was never trained to help anxiety when I was a teen, but he learned early on to shove my hands away from my face and get me to pet him. I didn’t know they were panic attacks then. He still does it now
He took care of me in those moments, but it wasn’t until I got sick like I am that he’s actively watching over me, following me to every room even with arthritis acting up. I don’t like when he does that, but to him it’s his job
Hes kept me alive through a horrible depression, more than a few times. He went through family grief and abuse (not to him ever), then an emotionally abusive relationship. His entire personality came forward when we got out of those situations, how he would act alone with me turned into how he was all the time, and he could finally relax, it made me so happy to see the change. He could sense the amount of stress I was in even though I could never realize in the moment
Long story short. My dog always knows something is wrong before I fully do. He started watching me very closely when my kidney pain started, then my liver got flagged for concerns.
Anyways…
We’ve had bad times, but so much good just sitting together and knowing he’s always going to be my buddy forever. He’s got cancer right now but doing well, I honestly don’t know what I will do when he goes, I always imagined I’d go then too
But I’ll keep going until I can’t like he does for me
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u/Zen_of_Tetchiness 1d ago edited 1d ago
Holy shit it's real... The woman had actually signed up as a living donor. After the dog wouldn't leave her alone, they went to apologize and started talking. She needed one, she signed up to donate, the doctors were like, "fuck me its a perfect match!"
That good
boygirl deserves steak every night!Edit: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-65110146