Oskar

Oskar arrived at the clinic with a body that had practically no place left without injuries.

First the vets found multiple pelvic fractures.

A moment later it turned out that a front leg was broken.

Then a hind leg. A multi-fragment fracture.

The examination alone took forty minutes.

Not because the vets couldn’t make a diagnosis.

It took forty minutes to count everything that was broken.

Severe bleeding. A traumatic brain injury. Raised intracranial pressure. Torn skin where the force of the impact was greatest. With every passing minute the list of injuries grew longer, and the vets already knew they were facing a fight for a dog whose body had literally been smashed by a car. Even moving Oskar onto the operating table carried enormous risk. Every movement could worsen injuries his body was barely coping with as it was.

There was no time to think it over.

First the bleeding had to be stopped and his condition stabilised. Only then could the next fight begin. Oskar underwent two complicated orthopaedic operations. In his hind leg, the vets stabilised the fracture with a special interlocking intramedullary nail. On his front leg they fitted an Ilizarov frame, which is meant to hold the bones in the correct position and give them a chance to heal properly. Every additional hour in the operating theatre gave hope that one day he would be able to walk normally again.

Today Oskar is still in the veterinary hospital.

He is very weak.

But something happened that everyone had been waiting for.

He stood on his own legs.

It was only the beginning. Ahead of him are still more tests, monitoring of how the fractures heal, rehabilitation and recovery from a severe traumatic brain injury. The road he has to travel will still be very long.

From the very beginning of our work, we have believed that animals have no borders. It doesn’t matter whether they suffer in Poland, Ukraine, Albania, Spain or Egypt. If we can be by their side and help, we simply do it. Oskar is one of the stories that remind us why this project exists. Because sometimes one phone call and one decision mean that a dog that was lying in the middle of the road a moment earlier gets another chance.

Today we are asking you very much for help.

Oskar’s treatment will be long and very expensive. The complicated operations are behind him, but ahead of him are still more weeks of hospitalisation, rehabilitation, tests and specialist care. We would like money never to be an obstacle in the fight for a dog that has survived so much.

Please, stay with Oskar today.

Help us add one more chapter to this story.

One in which, instead of more diagnoses, there will only be more steps.