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GeoWilliam750

(2,522 posts)
Wed Mar 3, 2021, 06:08 PM Mar 2021

A man had a stroke four months after adopting a dog. He credits the dog with saving his life.

All dogs go to heaven.

"Brian Myers knew he was in trouble when he fell to the floor. He had no feeling on his left side and couldn’t stand up in the crawl space between his bed and the wall. “It was really frightening — I couldn’t get up and I didn’t realize at that moment that I’d had a stroke,” he said. “My cellphone was on the dresser about 15 feet away, but there was no way I could get to it.”

Seconds later, Myers, 59, felt something wet and rough on his face: his dog’s tongue. Sadie, the 100-pound German shepherd he had rescued from an animal shelter near his Teaneck, N.J., home last fall, was standing above him with a look of concern on her face, he said.

“She kept licking me and crying, so I reached my right hand up to pet her, then I grabbed her collar,” recalled Myers, who had gone to bed just two hours before he fell on the evening of Jan. 16.

He was stunned by what happened next, he said. Sadie backed up and began pulling Myers inch by inch out of the crawl space, and then wiggled toward his dresser."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/03/03/rescue-dog-stroke-save-life

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A man had a stroke four months after adopting a dog. He credits the dog with saving his life. (Original Post) GeoWilliam750 Mar 2021 OP
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." hlthe2b Mar 2021 #1
We have had four GSDs in our family leftieNanner Mar 2021 #2
Great story. Thanks! electric_blue68 Mar 2021 #3
Wow blm Mar 2021 #4
That's one smart dog! FakeNoose Mar 2021 #5
I became an atheist at age 9 angstlessk Mar 2021 #6
The really good dogs get promoted and are reincarnated as cats. nt Binkie The Clown Mar 2021 #9
Beautiful malaise Mar 2021 #7
My luck would be have a stroke, get eaten by the dog. nt Binkie The Clown Mar 2021 #8
I love this. It reminds me of the story of the cat who spooky3 Mar 2021 #10
Good girl, Sadie lei. mahina Mar 2021 #11
K&R Blue Owl Mar 2021 #12
Just BEAUTIFUL, such love and loyalty! ❤ n Raine Mar 2021 #13
Sadie has her friend back, she clearly is so glad to see him: Judi Lynn Mar 2021 #14
Aw so sweet "sniff sniff" tugs at my heart. ❤️ 💕 nt Raine Mar 2021 #15

leftieNanner

(15,137 posts)
2. We have had four GSDs in our family
Wed Mar 3, 2021, 06:15 PM
Mar 2021

They are incredibly smart and sensitive. The boys take care of the property. The girls take care of the people.

That's been our experience anyway.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
6. I became an atheist at age 9
Wed Mar 3, 2021, 06:33 PM
Mar 2021

when a visiting priest told me my cat would not be in heaven when I got there.

spooky3

(34,466 posts)
10. I love this. It reminds me of the story of the cat who
Wed Mar 3, 2021, 07:02 PM
Mar 2021

pushed the cellphone from the vanity to her “dad” who had fallen in the bathroom.

https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/ring-a-ding-the-story-of-fluffy-the-hero-cat

Some animals are good hearted AND smart.

Judi Lynn

(160,598 posts)
14. Sadie has her friend back, she clearly is so glad to see him:
Thu Mar 4, 2021, 07:35 AM
Mar 2021


Wishing them a lot of wonderful time together after this.

Thank you, GeoWilliam750.








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