Crossing Borders Flyball Team

Brandon has always been a kind friend to everyone on CBFT. Please help him out if you can 💙💚

UPDATE MARCH 6:

I (Danielle) had a great visit with Brandon yesterday. He's awake, chatty, able to use his phone (feel free to send him greetings on Facebook!), and is recovering well. He told me that he's ready to get out of the hospital now. LOL! No news yet on when he will be discharged or what next steps will be. When we know more, we'll post the next update.

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UPDATE MARCH 2:

Brandon has been transferred out of ICU to the Trauma unit. He is getting more visitors now and is happy to see everyone. He's able to walk around on his own, is eating solid foods again as well. It's too early to tell yet what the long term effects of the brain injury will be, if any.

Danielle will be visiting him on Sunday and will provide the next update after her visit.

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UPDATE FEB 27:

Good news! Brandon is being transferred out of ICU!!

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UPDATE FEB 26:

Great news! Brandon was extubated today and is breathing on his own. He's being kept sedated for now but this is a step in the right direction. Keep sending those positive vibes!

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UPDATE FEB 25:

No extubation today. There's still too much throat swelling. The medical team will reassess tomorrow.

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UPDATE FEB 24 PM:

We got some encouraging news this afternoon. Brandon has been deemed stable enough that tomorrow, his medical team will try to extubate him! His cervical spine has also been cleared and they have been able to remove the neck collar today. The hope is that once extubated, they will be able to lighten Brandon's sedation. Cross fingers and toes and keep sending those positive vibes his way!

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UPDATE FEB 24 AM:

Thank you to all who have reached out and supported Brandon. We will post daily updates here as we receive them from his family. Please do not barrage them with messages or questions. Brandon has a long way to go yet and we want to help the family focus on him in any way we can. Doctors in ICU generally do their rounds starting at 9am until about noon so we will try to post updates midday as much as we can.

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UPDATE FEB 23, 2023:

Brandon is in stable condition and while still intubated, is starting to try to breathe on his own. The medical team has chosen to keep him sedated for today and will try to reduce his medication tomorrow.

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UPDATE FEB 22, 2023:
Thank you to all who have donated to Brandon. A portion of the funds have been transferred to his bank account for any automated payments that he has. The balance of the funds are, for now, being held in trust until we are able to determine his remaining living expenses and how best to pay them on his behalf. His dogs' expenses while with their fosters will also be taken care of.

Brandon is in stable condition and the medical team hopes to reduce his sedation tomorrow. Pray that when he wakes up, he is able to communicate with us and help us to help him.
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Please help us help our teammate, Brandon Butterworth.

https://gofund.me/516b1af7

Early this morning, our friend and teammate, Brandon Butterworth was found unresponsive and not breathing at the bottom of the basement stairs in the home where he lives.

He is currently in ICU here in Ottawa, fighting for his life. Brandon is intubated and being kept sedated while the ICU team continues to manage cranial pressure from the brain bleeds he suffered, hoping to avoid surgery.

Brandon faces a long road to recovery in the days and weeks ahead.

Brandon will have no income for the foreseeable future and so, as his teammates, we are asking the flyball and dog sport community to come together and help in any way they can.

We have set up a GoFundMe to accept any donation you wish to make. (Link above)

If you prefer, funds can be sent to our team captain, Danielle, directly via Paypal or etransfer at [email protected].

All Paypal'd and etransfer funds will be deposited directly to Brandon's bank account.

His dogs have landed in safe, loving foster homes and will be well cared for until he is ready and able to bring them home.

Please continue to send prayers and healing thoughts for Brandon.

It’s been 5 years since our first tournament as a team! 🥳 And it’s been one long year since our last tournament. 😢

We can’t wait until we can race against our friends, make road trip playlists, get the win with an epic rerun, celebrate a perfect start, puzzle our way through the downtime, make Janet cry, refine our tequila tastes, and everything else we love about flyball tournaments!

While this year didn’t end up like anyone expected, the dogs are still having fun and doing very well at practice. They will be ready to go back to a tournament whenever it’s safe to do so!

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Today marks 5 years since the beginning of Crossing Borders Flyball Team 💚💙

We’ve travelled, laughed, cheered, competed, practiced, won, lost, debuted, retired, puzzled, supported, cried (mostly Janet), celebrated and laughed some more!

Cheers to our great family of dogs and people! There will be one big celebration when we’re able to be back together again 🎂🍾

Our very own Atticus Finch doing a PSA for the Ottawa Therapy Dogs: Masks 101! 😷

Happy 2nd Birthday to one of the newest members of the team, Ivy! 💕🥳

It’s also captain Matt’s birthday today! But he didn’t pose all cute with a birthday hat so we didn’t share his photo 😂

Happy Birthday Ivy & Matt!

Hope your Valentine's Day is as sweet as these two red & whites!

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Original photo by Erika A. Photography

Happy New Year everyone! 🥳

We will be hosting our annual 🍹Sip of Summer🧉 tournament on July 4th & 5th at the beautiful Richmond Fairgrounds. Onsite camping available, placement prizes, fun raffle, complimentary breakfast table and more!

Be sure to mark it on your calendar 📆 If you have any questions about SOS 2020, feel free to ask away.

Lest we forget.

🏆 U-FLI Tournament of Champions 2019 🏆

Yes, we're a a bit late on the post. But this is how long it took us to really recover from Champs. Google maps says 17.5 hours from home to Purina Farms! It's a LONG trip, but it's worth it. Especially when you have episodes of North Woods Law and Friends to help pass the time 😉

We're so proud of how our dogs ran! 😍 They ran like clockwork and barely put a paw wrong. We had a lot of close racing, races being decided by 2/100's of a second even which makes racing that much more fun. We happily placed 3rd in our division! It was a great way to end our racing season.

We we're honored to win the Sportsmanship Award from the Championship committee. As you may have guessed... that made Janet cry! 😭😂

It's always a highlight to see all of our fellow competitors and friends that we don't get to see often as they live so far away - Kate, Rude Dogs, Pawbusters, Kate Corum, Slammers, Sure Shots, did we mention Kate? 😘

We only entered our 1 championship team which made for some spare team aka we took a lot of team photos! Wait until you see the TRex edition of CBFT at Champs! 🦖