Stolen medicine leads to seizure
WHEN Yvonne Thrupp woke at 2am to her dog, Prince Harry, having a seizure she thought it would be his last.
As the seizure took control of his body, sending Harry into mouth-frothing spasms, Ms Thrupp prepared to say goodbye to her friend of 12 years.
Much to everyone’s surprise, Harry made it through the night and managed to make it to the Chinchilla veterinary clinic. The vet was convinced his body wouldn’t have handled the epileptic convulsions a minute longer.
This traumatic event would not have occurred if Harry’s medication hadn’t been stolen from Ms Thrupp’s mailbox a few days earlier.
“The post office said someone had stolen the package out of my mailbox,” she said.
Ms Thrupp and Harry only recently moved to Chinchilla and were still attending their regular vet clinic in Roma.
Once she had established the epilepsy medication had been stolen, Ms Thrupp arranged for a friend to drive them out to Harry’s vet in Roma the following day to collect more.
Unfortunately, Harry wasn’t able to make it so long without his medication and suffered his most severe seizure to date the following morning.
“The seizures are heartbreaking to watch. I thought, ‘Oh my god this is it, he’s gone, all because someone stole his medication,’” she said.
After informing the police, Ms Thrupp has taken their advice and installed a padlock on her mailbox and now personally receives all her packages at the Chinchilla Post Office.