25/10/2025
.🐾❤️🩹🦮 BABY STEPS OF HOPE 🦮❤️🩹🐾
Our Angel’s body is finally starting to adjust to the new medications as they begin to work their magic, with subtle signs that the inflammation may be easing.
She even managed to get out and about the past couple of days, hitting the local second-hand clothing events with her best friend.
🦮💫 Juno was an absolute star. These were incredibly busy and crowded, yet she didn’t put a paw wrong and even amazed the girls when Trish took her outside for a breather, only for Juno to suddenly pull her back inside to alert on a tachycardic event. She picked it up from around 10 metres away, surrounded by people and another dog.
Truly incredible. It’s moments like these that give Trinity, and all of us, such a boost in confidence about her growing independence and the incredible bond between her and her medical detection dog.
While Trinity had a wonderful time and found a few amazing thrifting scores, it completely wiped her out, so today is all about rest, fluids, and a well-deserved “defrag” day for both her and her superstar pup.
Anna, meanwhile, has a huge challenge ahead following a request from Trinity’s fantastic doctor. After his discussion with the head of the team who declined replacing her feeding tube, he’s gathering all the evidence needed for a reassessment.
Anna’s task is to create two detailed timelines of events since the abhorrent behaviour of Auckland Hospital. The hardest part is keeping emotion out of it — not easy when each revisit of these events is deeply traumatic and reignites all the anger and hurt. But, as the doctor wisely said, save that fire for the HDC, ACC, and the lawyer once we hopefully have one on board.
While we continue to push for the hospital to rejoin Trinity’s care team and offer proper support, there’s also a growing reluctance.
For the first time in a long time, our girl is making progress and experiencing small wins that we believe can be built upon. We don’t trust that the hospital wouldn’t try to undo those gains and impose “their way,” which, as we know all too well, failed her so badly before.
Our hope is that they’ll come on board to support the progress being made, though experience tells us not to get our hopes up too high.
Just two weeks to go until the girls head back to Hamilton, where Trinity will undergo further tests and meet with the Neurologist.
We’re hoping for answers about the seizures and to finally get a Doppler ultrasound to confirm in New Zealand any abdominal vascular compressions and their severity. If these results match the findings from Germany, it may mean she’ll need to see her Gastroenterologist in Auckland and possibly consult with the surgeon in Australia.
The waiting game continues, especially for the DNA results, which we hope will give us the final missing pieces of this complex puzzle.
None of this would be possible without the love, generosity, and unwavering support from everyone following Trinity’s journey. Every message, every share, every donation has helped us get her the treatments, testing, and opportunities she deserves. The upcoming trip to Hamilton will cost close to $10,000, but thanks to all of you, we’re one step closer to getting answers, building hope, and giving our beautiful girl a real chance at the quality of life she so deeply deserves.
💖 From the bottom of our hearts — thank you for helping us keep fighting. 💖
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