Stacey Solomon fights back tears as she shares update on beloved dog Teddy after shock diagnosis

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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

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