Pojo and Mambo's Hospital Visits
Hi All! I'm back with a bunch of new stories, and Pojo's is first. To paraphrase Panic at the Disco:
Here I come
Oh, how it's been so long
I'm so sorry I've been gone I've been busy writing posts for you!
Well, actually I've been busy taking care of stuffed animals, which then leads to stories that lead to posts but, you get the idea. :-)
Anyway... the first pair of patients I'm going to share are relatives (the same style of animal). They came to the hospital nearly four months apart. Pojo is about 2 feet tall, Mombo is closer to 3 feet, but their relationship will be obvious.
Here are Pojo's diagnosis photos:
I've seen some of his relatives in the past, so I knew he was originally an almost velvety fur, and he had red suspenders. Pojo had lived with his human for over 50 years. She wrote:
"As you can see his entire body needs to be replaced and re-stuffed. His plastic parts, if possible, need to be cleaned but if not, I love him the way he is. His pants, arms and head are black, his shirt is yellow and he has red suspenders. Please let me know if you can help him."
Now, as you may have realized by now, I try not to replace actual bodies, rather, we replace the stuffing as part of cleaning (because stuffing does not clean or dry well), and then recover. And that was the plan for Pojo when he arrived in May.
Here he is starting treatment with his bubble bath:
Next up, once he dried, was recovering his fur. A perfect texture match to his original fur isn't possible without a donor, so I sent photos of two options. One was a modern fluffier fur:
And the other was a modern minky fur which is smoother:
His human opted for the minky. So surgery proceeded till the next decision point, what ribbons for his new suspenders:
His human opted for the narrower fur.
Pojo was almost better.... last little bits included putting in his new heart (from the new minky fur) made with a bit of his original stuffing:
And then he was ready to fly home to Illinois:
His human's response? He is beautiful!
But I promised two chimps in this post and the second was here this past month. Mombo's predecessor had been with his person for over 60 years, but his condition was such that his human felt a new Mombo was needed. So he searched the web for a Mombo in better shape. He found one, but it was holding a banana in one hand, and needed stuffing and some seams tightened up. So the human opted to send the new Mombo to me, with the original Mombo's hand! The plan was to spruce up the new Mombo, repair his seams, replace his suspenders, and replace the banana hand with the original Mombo's hand. And here's the New Mombo (Mombo reincarnated?) all better and ready to fly home to Florida (you can see how much bigger he is than Pojo!):
Mombo's person wrote: He looks great n enjoyed the attention.
