miracles happen, dont they?

i just had to blog.
it's funny how i only ever blog when i'm pissed or upset or bored. seldom when i'm happy.
but tht;s not the point.

on tuesday...... was walking to secret recipe. saw ling's mum with ai shen, getting into the car.
continued walking.
a few things happened all at once - the car door opened. a shrill scream sounded. a bike roared to life and zoomed off. ling's mum got out of the car, looking a wee bit shocked.
"it's okay, he only got my handbag..."

right outside our school. secret recipe. oh gosh i was so traumatised. it is traumatising, isn't it?

this happened on weds.
morning, before the bus came... i was in the garden with my mum. sembi was missing. we kept calling and calling her... but no sembi. weird cos she's always there to jump on me and try to leave a muddy pawprint on the white school uniform.
i came back from school with a ton of hw to see a nelson but no sembi.
to see a stressed out mum.
are you busy? she asks. free to go to the vet now?
 what happened to sembi? where's she?
i'll tell you later. no rush. wanna go shower, etc?

right. this is pointlessly redundant.
the main thing is, well... from what my mum said.

my mum couldn't find sembi at all this morning.
as she was going out, she saw sembi a few houses up, with a sarung/shirt (well basically a foreign bit of clothing) tied around her neck and looking very blank.
she got out of the car.
found tht sembi's cone had been nicely removed from her head. someone tied the sarungy thingy around her neck to the tree. there wasn't any blood.
mum untied sembi. tried to call her.
the usually bounding, 4-feet-in-the-air dog didn't move. or should i say, Couldn;t move.
mum rushed home to call the vet.
sembi had to wait around an hour for them to come get her.

she's now in the kennel thingy at the vets place.
her spine is injured. her spinal cord is potentially damaged, permanently.
she cant move her hind legs - she has no feeling and doesnt react when her hind legs are jabbed with a forceps. hard.
she could be paralysed.
if she really has no chance of recovering the use of her hind legs, we might put her down.
i mean. otherwise she would be forced to relieve herself, well, on herself.
the unlikely-but-best-possible scenario is that her spinal cord isnt too injured, and that she can regain the use of her hind legs. minimal usage, nothing like before. but still something.

the vet said "haiiiih..... broken legs, i can heal. but spines, and spinal cords..."

i went to the vet to see her. she tried to come out. but she couldnt move.
i cried like a baby.
this was the dog which practically leaps into the air at the whiff of food. the lively dog, always hyperactive and tearing around.
she isn;t even a year old yet.
and now she looks so confused, as if saying, "why can;t i get up!"

i hope whoever did this suffers. badly.
but most of all, i hope she gets well.