{"id":26202,"date":"2020-07-20T23:14:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=318861"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:22","slug":"young-woman-considers-service-dog-a-crucial-ally-in-her-battle-to-overcome-rare-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/young-woman-considers-service-dog-a-crucial-ally-in-her-battle-to-overcome-rare-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Woman Considers Service Dog A Crucial Ally In Her Battle To Overcome Rare Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

At some point during her battle with Ewing\u2019s sarcoma<\/a>, a rare form of bone cancer, a 25-year-old woman named Sydnee Geril decided to adopt a dog. After 9 months of chemotherapy and grueling hospital treatments, the young Florida woman noticed that everything seemed better when therapy pets were around.<\/span>So when her cancer finally went into remission, the young woman adopted a German Shepherd puppy to be her therapy dog. But when Geril\u2019s cancer flared up again, it turned out the now 2-year-old dog, Tulsa, had an even more critical role to play<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>Photo: Instagram\/servicedogtulsa<\/a><\/span>Nowadays, Tulsa works as a service dog, which means she\u2019s received the training to help her human in certain medical situations and accompanies Geril to chemotherapy treatments. One of Tulsa\u2019s most essential functions, in addition to helping her human quell anxiety and panic attacks, has been helping Geril overcome her extreme fear of needles, which often leads her to faint.<\/span><\/span>But these terrifying episodes have become less of an issue Tulsa in tow, because the dog can smell the chemical reaction that these episodes trigger. According to TODAY<\/a>, Tulsa just politely places one paw on Geril\u2019s leg to warn her she has 10 to 30 minutes to find a quiet place to lie down before her next dizzy spell.<\/span><\/span>Photo: Instagram\/servicedogtulsa<\/a><\/span>But even though taking Tulsa to chemotherapy treatments has been a game-changer, Geril was reluctant to expose her dog to any potential health issues during the coronavirus pandemic. It seemed unlikely Tulsa would contract the disease, but after hearing about humans who infected their dogs, Geril didn\u2019t want to take the risk.<\/span>\u201cI went into a wheelchair full time because I was afraid to be up and walking around because the hospital\u2019s rules are you can\u2019t have any visitors,\u201d she told TODAY<\/a>. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to risk passing out with nobody around.\u201d<\/span>But undergoing chemotherapy without any friends, family, or your beloved service dog is an isolating experience, and Geril was desperately missing the steady support of her canine companion.<\/span>Fortunately, she happened to discover a \u201csuper suit\u201d \u2014 aka a full-body leotard for dogs \u2014 that looked like it could serve a dual purpose. The suit<\/a> is actually intended to prevent shedding and canine anxiety, but Geril thought it could keep Tulsa safe from any hospital germs and<\/em> eliminate the need to give her dog a full-body bath each time they visited the hospital.<\/span><\/span>Photo: Instagram\/tulsaservicedog<\/a><\/span>\u201cIt\u2019s a new world now and we\u2019re finding new ways to cope with it, and I\u2019m just so happy that we can find new uses for products like that,\u201d Tulsa\u2019s owner told TODAY<\/a>. (Tulsa wasn\u2019t initially sold on her new get-up, apparently, but this very good girl apparently came around with extra playtime and positivity training.)<\/span> <\/p>\n

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At some point during her battle with Ewing\u2019s sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, a 25-year-old woman named Sydnee Geril decided to adopt a dog. After 9 months of chemotherapy and grueling hospital treatments, the young Florida woman noticed that everything seemed better when therapy pets were around.So when her cancer finally went into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44220,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26202\/revisions\/44220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}