Nic's Dog Fay Fay | Forensic Files

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] Daniel son is that our lead in every time I think the I think the rocking guitar is
enough of a good lead in I'll tell you what's enough my friend on the captain and Morgan show we uh we always leaded
in with some Steve Winwood or uh last week we did lead it in with uh here comes the bastards by Primus the Blue
Jackets are up three to nothing in the first round of the NHL playoffs and I I know uh I have friends
that live out of state that have never lived in the state of Ohio mhm and there like anytime somebody mentions the Blue
Jackets or if I were to bring them up they don't know what that means or who that is like so what I'm getting at here
is it seems like a lot of people that don't live here are unaware that we even have a professional hockey team and I
think that that's I think their record reflects that that statement but right now they're rocking and rolling in the
first round so I am looking forward to hopefully very soon a fourth Victory and I believe it'd be the first time that
they would make it to the second round of the NHL playoff so that is my beacon of light for this week that I'm looking
forward to last week and I do have to thank everybody out there and I wanted to make sure that we did it here on off
the Record because this is our this is where the true hardcore garage Army lives and breathes and drinks and drinks
and eats and smokes and does and sweats on each other and jogs around and does crowy kicks and we do wax on
wax off lunges and squat thrust yeah lunges on top of each other's faces well I'm exhausted just talking about all
that yeah I'm sweating uh but I wanted to thank everybody I received a lot of kind emails just telling me hey keep
your chin up Nick or uh keep doing what you're doing crispy Colonel we love you buddy and and what I loved was it was a
lot of words of encourage M and it was not really but nobody knew why well no but that's what's so nice is when when
people are like hey whatever you're going through you you'll get through it you know or or whatever's going on we
wish you the best it's not people trying to be nosy and like hey man what's what
is it you know tell us but um so I I thought I would clue in the the hardcore garage Army uh because because it was
special and it meant something to me that that people gave me those words of encouragement but last week um well
actually I'll take you back to the start so about three maybe four weeks ago one
of my dogs I've talked about the dogs on the show before especially when we were
doing Bark Box ads all the time yeah um but one of my dogs was diagnosed with cancer a few weeks ago and the way that
this broke down was I just thought that she had an injury to one of her legs this would
have been one of her her hind legs and took her to the vet expecting maybe that she had injured herself somehow
because this dog her name is Fay she's extremely athletic and just throws caution to the wind like this dog jumps
fences like a daredevil yeah I mean I come out sometimes and she's standing on the not on the hood on the rooftop of my
vehicle um so she just she just really goes for it and doesn't really really care she chases very loving dog though
oh oh oh that that's the thing she loves people but anything with fur she wants to chase it and get it right so I just
thought maybe she injured herself and took her in and they did an x-ray and they found a
spot um and it's kind of hard to describe for for anyone who's not seen this before but it's really just like a
white spot on the X-ray itself and the where I'm concerned that it's some kind of uh injury the the
vet's telling me this looks like cancer right and so but you don't know for certain right away that's like you get
the the bad news and then you have to wait to find out if it's in fact true we you know had to run more tests and
several other visits and then once you find out for sure that it is cancer you have to make sure that it has not spread
anywhere else in the body right so there I mean there procedures biopsy whatever
and stuff that they have to do that make the dog very uncomfortable I mean nobody
wants to be cut into and poked at and prodded and tested and so on and so forth and so that was all going on for
weeks and it just kep kept kind of adding up and adding up and adding up to the point of I was I mean I was just
extremely stressed out to the point where we typically record on Mondays and Tuesdays and they're fairly long days
yeah and so the Sunday before we went to record on Monday last week it was one of those
things that just have you ever been so stressed out Captain where you just like all all you can imagine doing is lying
in bed or sleeping I'm there I'm there right now well for me looking back I can only think of four five times that
that's happened in my life yeah but I'm I feel like I severe depression so I I just want to stay in bed every day
so that's but I get what you're trying to say yeah so so on that Sunday I think I went to bed at like 5 it was something
ridiculous like 5:30 6 p.m. and and and then then I came in here on Monday and had had a good time with you recording
the show doing work it helped keep my mind off of what was happening yeah we've been having some good shows lately
yeah and and and I was having some fun in the garage and the Amy Hooper case I'm I'm
extremely passionate about it's it's one of my pet cases yeah and so I was really
looking forward to covering that last week and and have met uh well have spoken to her family and they they are
such great people and her sisters are great her mother's great I'm praying praying that they get the answers that
they deserve um soon well and a lot of people were commenting on how you know we always kind of talk about it
when we're recording cases because a case can be depressing or it could be it could get your head out of the
game but and we kind of talk about energy like when when we're trying to produce the show we're trying to
keep not good energy but Just Energy so we're not putting each other to sleep with our comments or putting people to
sleep while they listen to the information we're giving and that case particularly because you're so close to
it people are like oh I love you know the passion uh that Nick has for this case well and the other thing that the
the driving force on that for me is Amy's mother Joy now she's in very good health so I don't want anybody to think
you know otherwise she's in very good health but she's 80 years old and she doesn't know yeah what happened she
doesn't know who's responsible for taking her daughter away from her from this world and I'm I'm just you know the
driving force for the motivation for covering that case and working on it and doing some things behind the scenes a
lot of things behind the scenes on that case was knowing that her parents are getting up there in age and and and
really hoping to push the envelope so anyway the through all these tests and and and whatnot regarding my dog fay
fay the other difficult thing and and you know you and I spoke about some of this on the phone and you were you were
nice to to let me uh kind of lay this on you on the phone vent yes thank you um one of the really troubling things with
this for me was that she just turned seven years old it's not we're not talking about um an an older dog and and
actually my my other dog is 14 it's she's at the age where you almost expect something at some and so with this dog
that's been she's incredibly loving incrediable she's got the mind and personality of like a a puppy you know
how some dogs never really grow out of that puppy playfulness and and attitude yeah and so I even think of her as a
younger dog than her actual years and then to be told this it was like I mean it was
devastating then there was a little light at the end of the tunnel uh finding out that the cancer as far as we
know because it's not I mean there could be h a hidden cell somewhere but we've I've been told
that there there is no cancer anywhere else in her body that they that they can find at this moment right so that that
is awesome um but the result was we had to amputate her leg and I know I sound very even talking about it now I've
sound very down about this I probably should be a little more pey and happy about the situation because it could
have been a lot worse um but when we were here recording on Tuesday yeah is when they were taking my dog's leg so
um just knowing that was yeah taxing uh to say to say the least so I got a little heavy-handed
with the drinking on on Tuesday and and I wish I wouldn't have done that but uh which was funny because uh we we paused
for one break and I was like okay and then oh he's cracking open another one okay then by the end of that break he's
cracking open another one okay I guess he's going to be hanging out in the garage most of the night and then I kept
on looking at my watch cuz I had stuff I had to do to you know release the show and try to get some stuff out on social
media real work stuff and you just kept looking at me like hey may you want me to leave I'm like what you can you can
do whatever you want then next thing you know half my refrigerator is empty from
uh all my nice beers that you decided to um Bogart yeah I I I could put him down
and I appreciate you it helped helped take my well I don't know that my mind was ever off of it and that was the
problem um but so a little to bring everybody up to speed that surgery went well as good as it can go um it's uh
a very difficult thing for the dog to go through um and so she's heavily medicated quite a bit and was a little
confused in the first few days as would be expected and and there's a lot of pain that goes into
that and there's also a lot of refiguring out a lot of things for her for herself and for me you know because
we have uh different apparatuses and things that that um we have to use at the moment but she's doing great is she
going to get a wheel no no there there will be no wheel um most of the time a dog that that loses just especially with
a when it's only one leg they they really adjust to that and she has adjusted like I said she's very athletic
so she's adjusted very well when she still had the leg it was it was bad enough and it was painful enough even
though she was being medicated for it it was painful enough that she was probably
only using it maybe four or 5% of the time for days maybe a week before the actual surgery right so in a way she's
kind of she kind of adjusted going into it but now the difficulty of you know her body weight and shape has changed
and form has changed and so she's adjusting to that the main thing I have to do right now
keep her comfortable but also make sure that she's not going to mess with the wound right the stitches yeah yeah so
that's been really the the the um the state of the situation as it stands now but one thing I do have to
say it it's it's weird because um you know we we find inspiration a lot of times when we don't
go looking for it and maybe sometimes we find it when we need it the most most but with her was amazing because I I've
never seen somebody with such a good spirit to say that she's soldiered through this is not to give her does not
give her enough credit her spirit has been amazing through this whole thing and it's really been inspirational to me
you know God forbid you know you don't want to have to suffer any type of injury to this magnitude or to lose a
limb or to be diagnosed with something severe but to see somebody handle it um in that way and I know she's a dog and I
I know there's probably some people out there going she's just a dog she's a dog
but but to see something that traumatic for her to go through and to be to not change you know her personality is the
same her spirits are high she's still very personable still very loving and not mad at you well right now she's a
little more loving than than she she was before probably because she needs some you know comforting right but it's but
also probably feels I mean could you imagine what those cancer cells were doing to her overall body right right
and so where once I had tears of of really of of just kind of fear and like and a bit of confusion too because when
you when you make that that decision you're like am I doing the right thing is her quality of life going to be you
know and I was reassured by the vets and everybody this is the this is the best thing and she will adjust but once what
once were tears of apprehension are now kind of tears of of being proud of her and and how inspiring she has been just
to me on a very personable level uh and I was able to work from home a few days last week and so I spent a lot of time
and that was a lot of time of balancing between work and and other obligations and being there for her uh you know day
and night for a while so it's been a roller coaster ride but I want to thank everybody for uh reaching out for the
nice emails it meant a lot and it was it was much needed and I didn't get a single
email so so I'm but I'm doing okay guys I'm doing okay C Captain's doing well yeah he's doing well but but thanks for
your thoughts and your and your prayers [Music] [Applause]

Nic's Dog Fay Fay /// OTR Episode: 51 Recorded: April 16, 2019 www.TrueCrimeGarage.com

Brief Summary

Nick shares his dog's cancer diagnosis and amputation while discussing the Blue Jackets' playoff success.

Key points

A Dog's Battle with Cancer. Nick shares the emotional journey of his dog Fay's cancer diagnosis and surgery.

Episode highlights

A Dog's Battle with CancerNick shares the emotional journey of his dog Fay's cancer diagnosis and surgery.“Her spirit has been amazing through this whole thing”13:38Dec 13, 2024

Episode quotes

It's really been inspirational to me.

Reflecting on his dog's spirit during tough times

13:48WatchDec 13, 2024

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