Dog saves owner who had a stroke Reproduction/Facebook/Amanda C Tanner
A couple living in Spring, Texas, in the United States were woken up at 5 a.m. on a Saturday by Axel, a oneyearold border collie dog. By pawing at his owners’ faces, the dog tried to get their attention so they could follow him. Daines Tanner went to the main floor of the house and opened the entrance to the backyard, but the pet wouldn’t leave. In fact, he went to the room of Gabriel, the couple’s 17yearold son, and began scratching at the door.
The man checked the teenager and realized something was wrong as the boy couldn’t speak properly and couldn’t feel the right side of his body. Because of this, the family took him to the hospital. Gabriel had a stroke.
Sabih Effendi, neurosurgeon and medical director of the stroke unit at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center, says the dog’s warning made a “huge” difference in the boy’s outcomes.
“It’s amazing that their dog alerted him and started this whole process to wake everyone up and come downstairs. When someone has an acute stroke, the neurons die. If he wasn’t found, another three or four hours would have passed.” “There would have been more and more brain injuries,” he told Today.com.
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Gabriel plays goalkeeper for the school soccer team and said there were no signs before the stroke. He went to school and then to training as normal.
Gabriel’s family hopes he will return to school and the soccer team soon. Personal archive
He explained that he fell asleep around midnight but woke up around 5 a.m. with his right arm numb. He went into the living room and fell down. Axel ran to call his parents while Gabriel got up and went back into the room. “I didn’t think anything was wrong,” he said.
The teenager received medical attention, was able to move his right arm again and is at home. Since he returned, the family said Axel followed him around the house, slept in his room and rarely left his side.
“We hope he can return to school and play soccer soon,” shared Amanda Tanner, Gabriel’s mother, R7.
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