Newbie
by Maria Urso
Title
Newbie
Artist
Maria Urso
Medium
Drawing - Drawing/sketch
Description
It was 10:30 p.m. when I received a call from my friend Cathy that Jewel was going in labor. Jewel was her one beloved boxers and my favorite of the three owned. She was a finished champion and she and my boxer Jasmine played great together, and sometime I thought Jewel loved me just as much as she loved her owner. Cathy told me how long she'd been trying to have the pups and couldn't pass them, so she asked me to go to the emergency room with her. We both arrived about 11:10 and we were given a room. Poor Jewel screamed with pain trying to give birth to the puppies, finally 2 pups within 20 minutes, healthy, breathing and beautiful. About an hour later, one more pup was born. There were 2 still inside her. The doctors wanted to wait it out, but I told Cathy a C-section needed to be done. The vet wanted to wait, this went back and forth for a little bit, finally I jumped in and said look if you want to be the reason we lose the mother, the pups or both, than just continue on and you'll be the one paying the bill and then some. Cathy turned and smiled inside, the doc and assistant hurriedly prepared for the C-section. What happened is that the 4th puppy was so big it couldn't pass through the canal and the 5th one was dying because it was stuck behind the one in front of it.
The vet's assistant brought the first pup in to us to revive it because it wasn't breathing. Cathy took it and started the vigorous rubbing of the puppy, trying to get it to breathe. Then the assistant bring the second one in and she said I'm sorry this one didn't make it. I grabbed that puppy out of her hands and started working on it, rubbing it, sucking out the mucus in it's nose and mouth, blowing into the pup like trying to resuscitate it. After 30 minutes, Cathy wanted me to quit, and the assistant said it was no use, but I kept on, I was determined that little one was going to live. In the meantime, the pup Cathy had started breathing on its own and the assistant took the pup from her, trying to clean it up, when the pup I had took its first breath and as I continued to work on the pup, the breathing became more normal and regular. Just as I was going to hand him to Cathy, I heard the first whimper of this newbie and thanked God for helping me revive him. In the meantime, the assistant said that she was losing the big pup that had already been breathing on its own. I literally, but gently snatched that puppy out of her hands and went to work on the large pup. When they say rub vigorously, they mean vigorously. It took about 10 minutes or so and I got him back breathing normal. Jewel (the dam) was brought back in and all the pups nursing. Cathy asked how much it was going to cost ($1500). I said for what, we did all the work except for the surgery. I spoke my mind as we hurried out of there, Cathy laughed, she said I beat her to the punch in saying what was on her mind. I told her if you EVER use that vet again I'm going to knock you out.
Rather than sit in the front with her, I sat in the back of her SUV with Jewel and 5 beautiful new puppies with wrinkled faces and heads and wrinkled but fat little bodies. That last puppy that I worked on for so long, was my favorite (of course) and I was so thankful that he had a fair chance at life. No two people in the world could have loved those pups as much as Cathy and myself.
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January 5th, 2013
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