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made commemorative stamp and button

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I will. I WILL!!

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every so often I remember when they crashed a train into a nuclear waste storage container, on purpose, to demonstrate how durable they were, and the storage container didn't lose any measurable containment whatsoever.

meanwhile, coal power plants can spray radioactive coal ash willy-nilly into the atmosphere all day and all night, but noooo, it's nuclear power that's the scary bad polluter.

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#i looked sooo fucking good here

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i am a very generous tipper by virtue of being bad at math

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Artwork by 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝘂𝘁 - inspired by Robert Crumb - from the book Legends of the Blues (Abrams, 2013).

#THESE ARE AWESOMEEED

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Benny Bunny

Last summer I received this email:

Recently on my podcast I was talking about my beloved childhood bestie, Benny Bunny. My dog got him many years ago and chewed some of his face. Plus he’s missing an ear.

A listener had you restore something for her and she shared your info!

He’s a vintage Gund. I would LOVE more than anything to have him restored.

This is the first time (that I know of) that someone found me through a podcast! :-)

Here are the original diagnosis photos she sent. Benny, btw, is over 50 years old!

We agreed on a treatment plan that included: a spa, facial reconstruction, recovering his cotton areas (torso, limbs,inner ears), replacing his missing ear, repairing the surviving ear, stitching other wounds, a new pompom nose, reinstalling his original eye, and a new vest.

So Benny flew in last fall and started his treatment with the spa. It's always first, especially if there will be transplants, because I want to match the furs as close as possible to the clean and fluffed fur.

You can see he needed the bath!

Next up was choosing a new cotton fabric. We knew there wouldn't be a match for the original, and Benny's person had seen lots of his relatives, all with different fabrics, so that wasn't an issue. The realm of options was wide open. Here are some I sent:

I was looking for ones that were a bit funky, maybe a bit seventies like Benny himself. His person chose those last flowers, which were actually my favorites for him too. I'd had that fabric a while, and he was the perfect patient for it. So, surgery proceeded.

Soon, Benny was getting his heart installed:

That little bit of green was from a repair done by his person's grandma way back when her brother had ripped his leg!

Benny was coming along nicely. New clothes, face wound repaired, eye reinstalled, ears treated. And we were up to the nose. We went through several options (both before and after his eye was installed):

In the end, Benny just wasn't Benny with any of them, so his person decided to leave the nose off. So all that was left was his new vest. It should be a color that looked nice with his clothes... his person opted for an orange velour. Here he is, healthy and happy and ready to fly home:

Benny Bunny flew back cross country to his home in NY and his person wrote:

Omg Beth!!

I’m so happy. He looks and feels so good. I can’t thank you enough for giving me back this special friend.

What you do brings so much joy.

Thank you!!

You're both very welcome! :-)

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White Bear's Rejuvenation for a new generation

White Bear's family wrote asking for help for their 40 year old bear last summer. He had visited the hospital over a decade ago, but after years with a new generation, it was time for a new treatment. Here are his diagnosis photos:

He had a bit of wear, but mostly on his front. The original plan was a spa and then transplants for his full front white areas, with a check in before deciding whether to treat his legs and back.

Here he is in his bubble bath:

There were two options for his new fur, longer and shorter:

His person opted for the longer fur. I treated his front side and the back of his head (the areas with the most balding), and sent photos:

His family wrote:

Wow, Beth! He’s so sweet. I agree, we can recover his back and legs like you recommend. I love that the brown (ears, nose, and paws) and eyes are shining through as the original and that’s good for us. Thank you for asking.

Here he is all better!

His family wrote "He's perfect!" So he flew home (not far, still in CA). And then in December, they wrote about another patient coming to the hospital. The last line of the email:

White Bear is holding up well! We appreciate you fixing White Bear earlier this year!

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Towers the Giraffe

Sometimes I’m a full fledged surgeon, but sometimes I’m just an ophthalmological surgeon who provides a bit of spa relaxation on the side. That was the story for Towers.

His person wrote to me:

My sweet baby Towers suffered an incident. I am a college student, but nonetheless, I love my stuffed animals to death. I woke up this morning to find my 2004 Ty Giraffe Towers missing an eye. Thankfully, I do have the eye (and it is beat up, but if possible, I would like to keep him looking the same). I was hoping to get an estimate to fix the socket and fix it, and maybe since he is aging, give him a few good meals. I have been too scared to wash him for years, so maybe a bath would be nice. I would like him to not change too much. I teethed on his little top nubs that now look like sick dreads, I would like those to stay the same, just maybe sew up the bottoms so the top of his head isn't exposed. I have literally had this stuffed animal since the day I was born, and I care too much about him to lose him so finding your page seems like a true miracle.

As you can see, his eye actually broke off at the post, so he would need a new eye, but it is a fairly common style and I thought we could find a good match. He had also lost some of the posture in his spine, and had had quite a few grimy adventures, so we also agreed on a spa for his visit.

Here he is in his bubble bath:

You can already see his color coming back!

Once he was dry, he got restuffed including his small heart of original stuffing:

Next was the eye. We could keep the healthier eye, and just replace the damaged one, which is what you can see in this photo.

But the difference between a healthy shiny eye and an aged older eye is pretty obvious, so his person opted for two new eyes.

Here he is, getting his chubbiness approved. I always send photos of patients before they are closed up, so we can adjust chubbiness as needed. In this case, he has his new eyes, but his spine is open:

Those bottom two photos are me squishing him to show how dense his new stuffing is.

Towers got approved and flew home to Tennessee. She sent this photo of Towers back safely home:

And she wrote:

He made it home!! He looks so amazing - I am so happy!! Never in my childhood did he ever look this great. Thank you!! You are a true miracle worker!!

Towers wanted me to tell you:

“I had a great time at the hospital, thank you for taking such good care of me. I’ve never been out that far west before and it was a great fun trip! I hope me and my human can go out there soon!! Again thank you for making me feel better!! I’m so happy to be youthful again :)”

Again, eternally grateful for you! Greatful that you posted to NOT superglue eyes back in (because Towers then would have a bigger problem). I appreciate all you did for my boy. Thank you for bringing the joy in my childhood back to life again.

It’s always awesome when the patients themselves add a comment.:-) And yes, I still do say no to superglue on patients! It just doesn’t come off and can seriously damage fabric. :-(

doctorbeth

A local teddy bear

A lot of my patients fly in solo, from all over the globe. But this one was a local bear who needed help.

You can see he’s pretty chubby, but he’d lost some stuffing from gravitational settling, particularly on his head and joints. His seams were suffering from the expansion (not just the ones in the photo). These were all treatable issues. He did have some light scarring on the side of his face from a previous accident, but the fur still felt nice, so treating it would be more invasive, and so I didn’t recommend that.

It took some time for him to come in, because his person, who is quite young, wasn’t ready for him to be gone for long, and so not only were there timing issues, but there was a question as to whether to have him cleaned as well, which would extend his stay. Eventually, everyone was ready and one Wednesday afternoon, after his youngster’s school, he was dropped off.

He started his care with the spa:

All new stuffing once he was dry relieved the lumpiness in his pre-op photos. But he still got a small amount of original stuffing in a heart in his chest:

Once restuffed, it was time to minimize his older seam scarring, and tighten up his other seams. Here he is, all better:

He went home to a very happy little girl and her family. They wrote:

He looks fantastic and D is so happy to have him back looking and feeling like new.

Thank you so much for your work on this.

They also asked for his story to be shared, so this is for D and her teddy bear. :-)

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