Bear aka the bear from Grease aka Fonzy Bear
Bear is a Reeses Valentine’s Day Bear. Doesn’t he look like he should be riding in Grease Lightning with Danny and the T-Birds? He wasn’t particularly old, but his signature leather jacket was wearing the way many a teddy’s leather nose has worn, and then the puppy got a hold of him and injured his eye. So… his person thought it was time for him to fly from VA to CA for some surgery, a spa, and a new coat. Here he is on arrival at the hospital:
In case you are curious, this is what his jacket looked like, once it was removed (it was actually sewn to create his arms and part of his body, more on that below):
So Bear came to the hospital with a donor for a new jacket, for some eye surgery and a gentle spa. Here’s his bubble bath (even cool bears enjoy bubbles):
Then a bit of surgery. His jacket was actually part of his body. He had part of a white t-shirt for his chest, but the jacket made up his arms and his back, and connected his head and the bottom of his body. So his jacket was removed, he got stuffed, and another jacket was carefully removed from the donor and transplanted onto Bear. Here he is all cool again (and with 20/20 vision restored):
(I promise, that’s his tag not a hole on his bottom)
Bear flew back solo across the country and arrived safely in VA. His family wrote:
He looks fantastic and we are so happy to have him back! Thank you so much for all of your wonderful work.
