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CTV News
10-07-2025
- Health
- CTV News
Golden retriever puppy ‘Air Bud' recovering after emergency surgery: B.C. SPCA
Air Bud is seen post-surgery in this image handed out by the B.C. SPCA. A golden retriever puppy is recovering with a foster after undergoing emergency surgery to fix significant wounds caused by an ill-fitting harness, according to the B.C. SPCA. The six-month-old pup, renamed Air Bud, was surrendered to the qathet animal shelter in Powell River on June 24, according to the organization. The dog was rushed to a veterinary hospital with four-inch lesions around the armpits caused by a harness embedded in its skin. Wounds that severe are a rare sight, and were difficult to stomach, said Tara Daniels, manager of B.C. SPCA qathet. 'The worst part is knowing that he was suffering from this entirely preventable injury without any treatment or pain management. We don't know how long Air Bud was wearing this harness, but it was clear the straps had been digging into his body without any reprieve for a long time,' she said in a media release issued Thursday. After getting stitched up, Air Bud is now in the care of one of the vet clinic's staff members and is receiving daily pain medication and antibiotics, the charity said. The B.C. SPCA described the pup as sweet and affectionate, saying he loves snuggling and shows signs he will be an active and outdoorsy dog as an adult. 'Air Bud's situation is a good reminder for all dog guardians,' Daniels said. 'You should be able to comfortably fit two fingers between the material of the harness and your dog's body. If not, it can cause injury and fear for the animal and lead to more harm than good. A harness should never be so tight that it's causing chafing or cinching.' The B.C. SPCA recommends checking a puppy's harness still leaves room for its legs and shoulders before every walk as it grows. 'If you're hoping to invest in an expensive harness for your pup, it's not a bad idea to start with a more basic one until your puppy has stopped growing,' Daniels added. As for Air Bud, the organization says he will be scheduled for neuter surgery once he's healed and can then start looking for a forever home.
Daily Mail
08-07-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Peter Andre's wife Emily tearfully reveals she had emergency surgery after suffering rare complication while giving birth to third child and admits 'awful' experience has cemented their decision to not have any more kids
Dr Emily Andre got emotional as she detailed how she had to have emergency surgery after developing a rare and dangerous condition while giving birth to her third child last year. The NHS doctor, 35, and husband Peter, 52, share children Millie, 11, Theo, eight, and Arabella, 15, months, together while Peter is also dad to Junior, 19, and Princess, 18, from his marriage to Katie Price. The couple have since ruled out having any more kids in the future, with the Mysterious Girl singer admitting earlier this year that he was working up courage to get a vasectomy. And Emily has now revealed that their decision not to expand their brood was 'cemented' by her 'awful' experience giving birth to Arabella last year, as she broke her silence on the ordeal. Speaking to Giovanna Fletcher on her Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, she explained the birth caused her to develop a serious bowel condition, that medical staff said was so rare that none of them had ever encountered it before. Emily teared up as she described how she suffered severe pain and a 'really slow recovery', but admitted that the 'worst part' was being apart from her newborn daughter. The NHS doctor, 35, and husband Peter, 52, share children Millie, 11, Theo, eight, and Arabella, 15, months, together while Peter is also dad to Junior, 19, and Princess, 18, from his marriage to Katie Price (pictured all together) The couple have since ruled out having any more kids in the future, with the Mysterious Girl singer admitting earlier this year that he was working up courage to get a vasectomy She said: 'I haven't really spoken about her birth and what happened afterwards because it was so hard and awful. It was tough. I was really unwell after she was born, there was quite a lot of complications.' She choked up as she recalled: 'I had to go back for emergency surgery. She was a week old, so that was the worst bit, I had to kind of hand her over and go in for another operation.' Emily explained she'd developed a rare hernia - which is when internal part of the body pushes through a weakness in the muscle or surrounding tissue wall. She said: 'I developed a really rare type of hernia that was quite large, basically part of my bowels were kind of in the wrong place. 'And the type of hernia that it was can strangulate quite easily and then that ends up being an emergency. 'All the consultants I've seen have said, 'We've never seen this in our whole career' and then I think, 'For God's sake, why did it have to happen to me?' 'I knew things weren't right after she was born because I had a big, huge lump in my tummy sticking right out.' She explained after a week she was sent to see a surgeon, saying: 'And the surgeon looked and said 'You need to come into hospital now'. They scanned it and they could see it was my bowels that had come out basically.' Emily admitted she was stunned by the news and asked to go home first to prepare, saying she was consumed by the thought she couldn't be with Arabella. She said: 'I just didn't expect it. I was breastfeeding so I thought 'My God, I'm going to have to express milk. How am I going to feed her if I'm on the operating table?' So they let me go home and I could do all of that.' She was rushed to surgery the following morning, and confessed that despite being in 'really bad pain', the 'worst' part was handing Arabella off to her mum, saying: 'I was a right mess, it was really hard.' But she recalled the 'one thing that made me smile' and 'took my mind off it' was the porter revealing she was in the same theatre where Peter had been operated on by Emily's urologist father - which is how they first met. She explained: 'The way Pete and I met was my dad operated on him. We were then friends for years and it was in the same theatre. 'I was lying on the table and the porter that got me across was so lovely. He said 'You know, I brought Pete here into this theatre. This was exactly where he lay and this is the room where he met your dad'. It was just such a nice moment and it was something that took my mind off it.' Emily added: 'Then the recovery from that was quite awful. I was in hospital for probably two or three days and then the recovery was really, really slow. They had to do quite a lot of stitching up and moving things around so the pain was quite bad.' However, a year on, she said she felt as though she 'was pretty much back to health now' as she voiced her gratitude to Peter, her parents and all the medical staff for being 'amazing'. But she admitted that she may still be dealing with some psychological aftereffects, as she revealed she has not spent a night apart from Arabella since her surgery. She said: 'It was the handing her over, that was the worst part of it' as she explained how she felt 'really lucky' that she was able to recover on the midwife ward so that Arabella could stay with her. Emily said: 'Otherwise she would've had to be at home and I'd have been separated from her. That was all I was thinking about, 'Don't take my baby away from me'.' 'I do find it really hard [to be away from her]. I've got quite good at the daytime, but there's something about the night and putting her to bed...' While she stressed that the traumatic ordeal has underlined her desire not to have any more children, stressing that she was '100 per cent no more!' She added: 'It's a definite no from me, we're not having anymore. It's absolutely cemented now. We always said it would be the last anyway. Five's enough, we don't have any more bedrooms in the house for starters.' Peter first hinted that Arabella's birth had been difficult in May, as he said it had been a 'very scary time' during his own appearance on Giovanna's podcast. The reality star revealed that Emily had suffered 'serious' complications and echoed his wife's admission that the experience had cemented their decision not to have another baby. He said: ''Emily had a real complication with Belle [...] And I don't know if she's ever talked about it, but the complications that happened after were very serious. 'Emily had a real complication with Belle... And I don't know if she's ever talked about it, but the complications that happened after were very serious.
Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Yahoo
Motorcyclist, 20, Injured After Flipping Off His Bike and Falling Off Highway in Apparent Road Rage Incident, Police Say
The Houston Police Department is still searching for an SUV driver accused of forcing a motorcyclist off of his bike on Wednesday, July 2 In the alleged road rage incident, the cyclist plummeted from the highway and hit a grassy area The victim is a 20-year-old male who has not been publicly identifiedAn SUV driver was accused of forcing a motorcyclist off his bike on the evening of Wednesday, July 2, causing him to fall several hundred feet after hitting an overpass in Houston. The incident occurred at approximately 11 p.m., in the northbound lanes of Sam Houston Parkway North and I-45 N near Beltway 8 in the Greenspoint neighborhood of Houston, per Click 2 Houston. PEOPLE has reached out to the Houston Police Department for a statement. The motorcyclist, identified as a 20-year-old man, fell a long distance and landed in a grass-covered area. He was rushed to a nearby trauma center in serious condition after the alleged road rage incident and underwent emergency surgery, Click 2 Houston reports. The roadway was shut down for hours while police conducted their investigation, and the manhunt for the SUV driver remains ongoing. "When they got to the very top of the flyover, whatever occurred at that instance, the motorcycle rider actually went off the freeway over the edge, fell quite a long ways down, landed in some grassy area," Lt. R. Willkens with the HPD said, per local outlet KHOU 11. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Willkens told the outlet the SUV driver took off. "We're still trying to figure out who that might have been," he told KHOU11, adding that he believes the motorcyclist will survive. The driver and the victim have not been publicly identified at this time. Anyone with information may contact the Vehicular Crimes Division with HPD at 713-247-4072. Read the original article on People
Daily Mail
12-06-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Man, 21, hospitalised due to risky 'sounding' sex act involving a USB cable
A 21-year-old man ended up needing emergency surgery after a sexual experiment with a USB cable went horribly wrong. The unnamed college student inserted the object into his urethra—the tube in the penis that carries urine out of the body—as part of a dangerous practice called 'sounding'. But the thick cable—which he had inserted in a U-shaped loop leaving both ends hanging outside of him—had gotten stuck, requiring an urgent trip to A&E. American medics, who reported the case, said their patient admitted to having inserted objects like 'cotton swabs and wire cables' in a similar manner before. But on this occasion he found himself unable to extract the USB cable. Scans show how the man had pushed the looped cable so deep inside his urethra that it had entered his bladder, where it then become lodged. Writing in the journal Cureus, the medics said that initial attempts by staff to pull the cable out by hand were unsuccessful. As a result, they decided to anaesthetise the man and attempted to extract the cable using special tools inserted into the urethra. This proved successful and the cable was 'gently' pulled out until it could be snipped with scissors and each section extracted more easily. After keeping him in hospital for a week for monitoring, the man was then discharged with painkillers and antibiotics. One month later he returned to hospital for a follow up which showed he had suffered no long term problems from his ordeal. Writing in the report the medics noted: 'Self-insertion of objects into the urethra for sexual or other reasons is rare but can cause serious harm.' Known risks include an infection, which can in turn lead to life-threatening sepsis as permanent damage to the reproductive organs. If inserted objects reach the bladder, it also carries the potential of rupturing the organ. Sounding is a sexual kink whereby people, mostly men, insert long thin objects into their urethra. Examples of objects previously used include forks, telephone cables metal piping, nail clippers, an allen key, needles, olive seeds, batteries, a skipping rope, a coyote rib, and even a decapitated snake. While most famously done for sexual pleasure the act is has carried out by people with serious mental health conditions as well as men undertaking an ill-advised attempt to maintain an erection. UK experts have previously reported a rise in the number of men having sounding issues over the past few years. They have blamed it the surge in men looking to 'expand their sexual activities and enhance their sexual experiences'. How many men perform sounding is unknown. However, the NHS in England reported treating 258 cases where patients had a 'foreign body' stuck in their urethra last financial year. The vast majority of these cases, 231, were in men with an average patient age of 47.
Daily Mail
11-06-2025
- Daily Mail
Michelin-star chef accused of battering woman calls victim from jail with 'inconsiderate' request
An acclaimed chef at a Michelin-star restaurant beat a woman so badly she needed emergency surgery to treat a brain bleed - then called the same woman from jail begging her to bail him out. Jacob Bickelhaupt, 41, was hit with new charges of witness tampering less than a week after he was arrested on charges of aggravated battery for assaulting the victim for two hours inside her home. The Michelin-star chef and owner of West Palm Beach restaurant Konro allegedly left the woman with a 'smashed up face' and horrifying injuries which required lifesaving surgery. The woman had escaped to the airport when she suffered a seizure trying to buy a plane ticket. She was rushed to hospital, where she told medics she had been involved in a car accident. Nurses called police because her injuries were not consistent with a car accident. 'I have nowhere to stay, nowhere to sleep... I need your help,' Bickelhaupt said in a voicemail left to the woman's phone. Using an unauthorized device, Bickelhaupt called a number for his business which diverted to the woman's personal cell, along with his own and a business partner's. It is understood the business partner alerted authorities to the voicemail, CBS 12 reported. 'Here is the deal, I know there is a lot going on, and you're in really bad shape. I'm going to be here for a very long time if you so choose, maybe a year,' he said in the desperate call. 'I'm not trying to sound inconsiderate right now, I really don't have a lot of time. I love you, please call that number,' he said in a second call just 20 minutes after the first went to voicemail. Bickelhaupt asked the woman to phone the bondsman and pay $1,500 upfront, agreeing to cover the remainder of the $9,000 bail amount via a payment plan. His total bond was initially listed for $90,000 with a 10 percent payment required upfront to walk free. 'I get out I have house arrest with ankle bracelet and no order to contact. So I need to find somewhere else to sleep, and I can't do the restaurant,' he said. 'I don't have any money, they took all my ID's and I don't have any shoes, it's in evidence. 'Zelle and cash app 1,500 and the bail bondsmen will pay the 9K and we'll clear out the rest.' After authorities learned of the two calls, Bickelhaupt was hit with three fresh charges - two counts of witness tampering and one contempt charge. Bickelhaupt is the chef behind Michelin-star restaurant Konro Each new charge carried a $3,000 bond, taking his total bond amount to $99,000. Bickelhaupt will return to court to face both sets of charges. The initial complaint related to a June 2 assault on a woman who required emergency surgery to stem a brain bleed caused by her injuries. She also had two black eyes, facial swelling and bruising from her shoulders down to wrists. Police allege she was the victim of a sustained two-hour assault. At her home, police found blood splatter on the bedding, walls, and furniture. Newly released bodycam footage of Bickelhaupt's arrest shows the chef sitting on his front porch as officers approach. 'I'm assuming she wasn't in a car accident because there was no damage to her car,' the officer told Bickelhaupt in the clip as he's discussing the woman's injuries. 'She had to go through surgery to save her life. Her face is all smashed up. 'One of two things is happening. Either she's covering for the person who beat her, or the brain bleed is affecting her thought process.' Bickelhaupt simply said: 'I don't know.' The officer asked to see Bickelhaupt's fists and the top of his hands before later informing him that he was the prime suspect and placing him in handcuffs. Bickelhaupt's last restaurant, the famed Chicago-based 42 Grams, was awarded two Michelin stars before it was suddenly closed under a cloud of controversy in 2018, after Bickelhaupt had been accused of seperate and unrelated domestic violence offences.
