Murmur (2019) - full transcript

So, uh...

The department
of corrections

has sent over your papers,
and, um...

You're going to start
with us today, which is great.

And I'm not sure
if they told you,

but you're going to be doing
a lot of dirty work,

and, uh...

The clothes that you're wearing
really aren't appropriate,

do you have other clothes
that you can bring?

No problem, no problem.

So we pour the
mop bucket out right here.



So you're going to wring it
just by squeezing it.

There you go.

Try to get all the water
out of the mop,

because it's
a really heavy mop.

Jeez.

Yeah?

Okay.

Okay, and you take
this thing off

by just lifting it
straight up.

Perfect.

And just pour it out.

So when we fill up
the bucket again,

we have to use
this medical grade disinfectant.

And we're only going to use
25 mls of this



because it's really strong.

Just right in the bucket?

Yup, just spritz it
right in there.

And we put that in
before the water

so it mixes up
really nice.

Okay.

And this stuff to make it
smell pretty.

Oh.

How much?

You're good.

- That's good?
- Yup, that's good.

Okay.

So, the purpose of
today, our goal is to one,

provide education
on safe driving

and the effect of alcohol
and other drugs,

to provide education
on the harm

associated with substances,

and developing a plan
or strategy

to avoid
a future occurrence.

So how did you
get here today?

I do not have
your specific details.

I don't know why you are here
today, other than...

You've either been charged
or convicted

with a driving
while impaired offence,

or you have an administrative
licence suspension.

So how do you get
your licence back?

The first step,
you're completing today,

you're already doing,
the education program.

What're you doing?

What have you got?

You're not going to bite me?

No?

Wait a minute,
just wait.

Wait.

Careful.

Do you like
to be cuddled?

Do you like
to be cuddled?

You're so pretty.

Well, you're welcome.

Yes, you're welcome.

You're so pretty.

What's he saying?

Huh?

What's he saying?

Hello?

Hello, Melissa?

Hi.

Hi, it's Donna,
is Julia there please?

No, she's not here.

Oh.

Well, do you know
if she'll be back soon?

Donna,
she's not here, you should leave.

Well, you're not my daughter,

and I'd like her
to phone me please,

can you make sure
she phones her mother?

I think
you should leave her alone.

I'm hanging up now.

Well make sure
she gets the message please,

I need her to call...

Come here, come here.

No, you've got to wear this.

You have to wear this.

There you go, no,
come here,

you've got to weary this,

no, you have to wear this.

That's a girl.

What a good girl.

She's watching the screen.

So this is
her bladder there.

So we're just going to...

we're just going
to go around a little bit

and see if we see
any puppies.

We're looking
for a heart beat.

So we've just come up
on the first fetus there,

so we can see that
there's a heart beat.

You're going to be a mommy!

Wow.

Come here.

There you go.

You're so sweet.

Come on, Charlie.

Look, come here buddy.

There you go.

What a good boy.

Yummy?

Just wait.

Just wait a minute.

I've got more.

There you go.

Donna,
it's one of the worst parts of our job

when we have
to euthanize a dog

which is near
the end of their life.

But it's something
we have to do

and we have
to deal with it.

And we just can't have you
taking home every dog

that we need
to euthanize.

I understand, but Charlie and I
have a connection.

He came right up to me
when I started

and it will only be
this one time.

It's good of you,
but the fact of the matter is,

you know, Charlie is sick,
and there's high vet bills,

and you have limited resources
as far as I know.

How are you going
to cover those vet bills?

Well, Crystal mentioned
that there's a program

for older dogs,
senior dogs,

and it looks after
the veterinarian costs,

and everything.

The palliative care program.

But that's generally
for dogs that are older,

like Charlie, but are
in much better shape.

Charlie is really near
the end of his life

and to extend his life
may not be

the right thing for us.

I think it would be
good for him.

And I think
he deserves a chance.

So Charlie's got a couple
of health concerns

that we're going to have
to talk about today, okay?

So he's got a grade six
out of six heart murmur,

and he's in heart failure,

he's in congestive
heart failure, okay?

He's also got some
severe skin issues

that we're going to have
to send you home

with medicine for.

I'm going to go over
each of these medications,

okay, with you.

He's going to be
on antibiotics.

These antibiotics are
one full tablet every 12 hours

and there's two weeks worth
in there.

That's going to help
with the crusting

and infection in his skin.

He's also going to go
on medicated shampoo.

So this medicated shampoo

you're going to lather up
really well,

work it into his coat,
right to the skin,

leave it on for five
to ten minutes

and then rinse it
really well.

And get him nice and dry,

no moisture left behind,
okay?

So you're going to do that
basically every day

until his skin
is looking better.

He's got an ear infection.

He's got bacteria
and yeast in his ears.

Oh, Charlie, come on.

Come on,
you need to eat.

Look, eat.

There you go.

What a good boy.

What a good boy!

Yes you are!

Yes, yummy yummy.

It's okay, it's almost done.

So this is the first time

that alcohol has
caused you problems in your life

than with the driving
while impaired charge, then?

Yes, yes, big problems.

Has there been
a time that people have been

upset with your drinking?

Well, yeah, my daughter
doesn't like it when I drink.

Okay,
so there's been conflict in the family

because of your use,
then?

Yeah, yeah.

It sounds like
you care about your family.

Oh, I love my daughter,
love her.

She's my heart, you know,
she's my only baby.

So yeah,
she's important.

Come here,
Charlie come here.

Charlie, come here,
come here.

Oh, that's my boy.

How was your day?

How was your day?

I missed you.

What's that?

What's that?

Wait a minute,
what's that?

Charlie, did you pee?

It's okay, buddy.

It's okay,
it's okay, don't worry.

Go pee, come on,
let's go pee.

It's cold.

Oh!

Look at you!

Oh, come here.

It's okay, it's okay.

Hi.

It's okay.

Oh, you're cold.

You're cold.

It's okay.

I know, just wait.

There you go.

It's okay.

Let go, let go.

There you go.

Oh, hi, hi!

Please...

Yes, I know...

Oops!

Oh look, you like that.

The stress test
showed us an abnormality,

and that's why we had
to go to the dye test.

And it showed us
some minor abnormalities

in the arteries
of your heart.

These are the major
arteries of your heart,

and you can see
that it's got

some lumps and bumps,
it's not a clean tube

all the way down.

Down here,
it gets narrow.

It's about 60%.

Usually we don't fix arteries
until they're more than 70%.

So it just means
that again,

we have to be
very vigilant about exercise,

diet,
and appropriate therapies

to lower your cholesterol
in particular.

So I think
with all this information,

the best thing for you
to do to live

as long as possible,

and as well as possible,
is to go

to a cardiac
rehabilitation program.

Cardiovascular prevention
and rehabilitation.

You'll go through 12 weeks
of exercise

and nutrition training...

Charlie, what did you do?

And you had to walk
through it, didn't you?

What a good boy.

Charlie, come here.

Come here, baby.

Come here, good boy.

Come here, let's go.

What a good boy you are.

Okay, you be patient,
okay?

Here's your tail.

Yes, just wait.

No, you get the treats
after, okay?

You get those after.

Sorry buddy,
but you've got to wear these.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I know.

Look, look, here.

Look, there you go.

Here, here.

See, that wasn't so bad.

Charlie.

Charlie.

You're my sweetheart.

I love you.

Charlie, I love you.

What a good girl.

It's just...

It's wonderful.

She's a good mom.

It's okay.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Look at that nose,
look at that nose.

I know, got to eat
your supper.

I know.

What a good boy.

We're going home.

You're coming with me.

Hey Charlie, look.

Mommy's got
a friend for you.

Mommy got
a friend for you.

Yes I did.

Look, I think it's great
that you care for these animals

but the fact of the matter is
I have to know

that you can take care
of this cat properly

and that this will be
the last time

that you take an animal
home from here,

are we clear about that?

I'm very serious about this
because I could easily

call your probation officer
and arrange for you

to do other community service.

Do I need to do that?

No, no,
the call's not necessary,

I understand exactly
what you're saying.

Okay, Donna,
this is the second part

of the investigation,
the ultrasound or the echo,

and this is to see
if we can actually find

the origin of the murmur
that we heard.

Oh, look at this,
Charlie.

Look.

You're not
very amused, are you?

Look, what do you think?

No?

Fine.

But I know a cat
will like that.

Oh look.

What do you think,
blue or black?

Blue's your colour.

Look at this guy.

Good boy, good boy.

Hold on.

There you go, good boy.

It's okay, look,
I made you a house.

Yes, you're going
in your house.

You ready?

You ready?

Look, wait a minute,
wait a minute,

don't be so impatient.

And you use this bit,
we don't need to use this bit

because we don't need it
to be like smooth or anything.

But just file off
all the sharp pieces

on preferably
all these bones

if you have the time.

Think you can do that?

Oh yeah.

Awesome.

You have fun.

Thank you.

No problem.

Alright, we're going
to start it up

and see how he handles it.

I'm going to keep
my hand on him

to make sure
he's comfortable.

There we go, oh,
you're a superstar.

You're a superstar.

Charlie, look at you.

There we go.

Charlie, look at you.

There we go.

He's a superstar!

Now how does this
help their legs and that?

Well, the buoyancy
of the water

is going to make it
a little easier

for him to move
his legs forward,

so he's going to be able
to actually use

the muscles
a lot easier,

and it's a lot easier
on his joints.

Oh, okay.

These could be
emotions, these could be a situation

or an environment
that you're in,

where a craving is more of
like a physical sensation.

Has there been any time
since the last time

we've seen each other
that you experienced

a trigger or a craving?

Oh, I guess, probably around
supper time or bed time

I used to have
a glass of wine.

And it just, you know,
made me feel great,

or you know, happy,
it lifted my mood.

And relax, it let me relax
so that I could fall asleep.

So that I guess would be...

I don't know if that's a trigger
or a craving,

but it's probably...

oh, I don't know.

It's just I miss
my glass of wine.

It kind of calms
everything down.

She's so cute.

We talked about her
being diabetic, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So here's the supplies.

Okay, yeah.

You have to inject her
behind the scruff of the neck

twice a day.

Yeah, okay, no problem.

Pretty girl.

Okay, so you know that,
here you go.

Aren't you
a pretty girl?

Look, you want some treats?

Look, look, see?

Look at those, huh?

Now I'm sorry but I've got
to give you your medicine, okay?

I'm sorry.

I know, I know,
I'm sorry.

Don't move.

Good girl.

Good girl, just wait.

What a good girl.

Yes.

Now you'll feel better.

All right folks,
welcome to cardiac rehab.

So we're going to spend
the next hour

going through
our exercise portion

of the program.

So I'm Leo,
one of the physiotherapists

with the team,
and probably the face

you'll see most times
that you're here.

We're going to spend
the next five or ten minutes

warming up
with a few exercises

just seated in our chair.

So we're going to start
with marching in our seats.

So just lifting the knees,
getting the arms going...

always make sure
you're breathing comfortably.

Sometimes
when we exert ourselves,

we have a tendency
to hold our breath.

A little counterintuitive.

Looks good.

And check in
with yourself.

This is supposed to be
fairly comfortable,

so you don't want
to be panting

or breathing too hard
right off the bat.

Should be pretty comfortable
if I asked you a question,

should be pretty easy
to answer.

Good.

We're going
to switch that up,

and I'm gonna get you
to bring your knees

and arms up
a little bit higher.

Using those hips
a little bit more,

that looks great.

Excellent.

Feeling good so far?

Hopefully.

Good.

Now you're gonna take
those arms there

and we're gonna reach
towards our knees,

so a big lift up
with the arms,

see how much range
of motion

those shoulders
are comfortable with.

Knees come up
towards your hands.

Again, make sure
you're breathing comfortably,

take breaks
if you need to.

Good.

Take your time with it.

Shake your arms out,
go back to a march.

Good.

Cover a little bit there,
that looks great!

Hello?

Hello, Melissa,
is Julia there please?

Donna?

Why are you here?

Well, I'm trying to get
ahold of Julia,

and I don't...

she's not answering
her phone,

and I don't know if you gave her
the message I gave you.

Yeah,
Julia doesn't live here anymore, so...

Oh.

Oh, okay...

Can you tell me
where she's gone?

No,
she's living with her boyfriend now.

Oh.

Oh, okay, and...

you don't have an address?

No.

I've gotta go,
don't come here again.

Can you give her a message
that her mom wants to talk...

Oh my goodness!

Oh, come here.

This is Bruno.

Hi, Bruno!

Oh my goodness,
you're so cute!

Yes you are.

He's a really good dog.

Yeah? You
know, I'd keep him myself,

but he doesn't get along
with my huskies.

Oh, okay, no problem.

Oh, he likes you.

Yes...

Oh, aren't you cute...

Aren't you cute.

Think you'll fir
right about there.

Yep. I think you'll be fine.

Just wait, Bruno.

Come on.

Ready bud?

Look, look.

Look at that.

That's your new home,
look at that.

Yes.

Bruno, go away.

Hi, bud.

You like that?

Good, I'm glad.

Whoops.

Ah, shit.

Come here, Charlie.

Charlie, come here.

Look, look.

Come on,
you've gotta eat some.

Charlie, come here.

Charlie, come here.

Charlie, you're going
to get sick.

Here.

There you go.

Look, Bruno's eating it.

No, this is for Charlie.

Charlie needs it.

I know.

Charlie needs it.

Charlie?

Come here, bud.

Come on, buddy.

Yeah, he's...

Charlie hasn't been
feeling that well,

hasn't been eating,
and kinda listless,

and he's just, uh...

he's just not Charlie.

Let's start
by getting a weight on him there,

to compare
to his last one.

So if you can just
put him right on the scale.

It's okay, it's okay.

So he's just
over 3.8 kilos,

so he's down quite a bit
from when you adopted him,

he was around five then.

So that's pretty significant
weight loss.

We're going to start
with some lab work,

and take some updated
X-rays on him,

and see if we can
get some answers

as to what's going on.

Okay.

All right, so I'll take him
from you for now, okay?

You'll be back.

You're gonna be
right back.

Somebody looks tired.

Yeah.

Taking him home?

Yeah, he's only a baby.

Did you check
with Shelley first?

Hmm.

Good, good.

Got everything?

Yep.

Let's go.

Excellent.

Adjust it as you need to,
keep your chest lifted.

Nice deep breaths.

There you go

There you go, bud.

There you go buddy.

I'm not gonna...

see anything, am I?

No, they're all in bags.

Okay, okay.

Ready?

Yep.

There's so many!

Oh.

Just grab as many
as you can.

We have to spread them out.

So you kinda have
to chuck them, sadly,

in the back there.

Oh, okay.

Come on, Donna, let's go.

Oh, okay.

Okay buddy.

You'll be okay.

Sounds
like he's important to you.

And he helps you manage
these unpleasant emotions.

Yeah, he...

he means a lot to me.

And that, and...

I'm gonna miss him
when he does go.

Because...

I can talk to him.

I talk to him.

He's...

He's such a good boy.

Such a good boy.

I haven't had him for long,
but, you know...

he makes, like, the days
since I got him go better...

go quicker.

And he loves me
no matter what I do.

Yep.

I love him a lot.

Yep, love him a lot.

Hi guys.

Where's Charlie?

Where's Charlie?

Hi, Crystal?

Hi, it's Donna from work.

Yeah, um...

I was wondering
if you could come over.

Charlie's not doing
very well,

and I don't know
what to do.

I'm just...

just wanted...

you know.

Okay.

I'll see you soon?

Okay, thank you,
bye bye.

Hi!

Hi, I'm wondering if you can

take Charlie and me
to the vet.

Yep.

Okay, let's go.

Okay.

We need to...

To look at
what's best for him, and...

We don't want him
to suffer at all,

and although
it hurts for us,

it's more unpleasant
for him to be like this, so...

I think we know
what we have to do.

Fine.

Okay, I guess so,
yeah.

So, the way that
this is going to work,

okay, is that I'm going
to take him from you

for just a couple of minutes
so that we can put in

a port in his arm
that'll give us IV access

so that everything
will go really smoothly.

And then you can hold him
and be with him

until the end, okay?

But I'll just take him
out of the room briefly

for that procedure
and then I'll bring him

right back, and he can be
in your arms, okay?

He won't feel anything?

He's not going to feel
any pain at all, okay?

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I love you so much.

I love you so much.

Donna,
when I heard what Crystal told me

about your apartment
and the state it was in

and the animals...

we just can't have that!

I mean, okay...

this is what
we're going to do.

We're going to call
Animal Control,

and they're gonna go
and remove

all the remaining animals
from your apartment.

It's just not safe
for them,

and they are our priority.

And...

we're going to have
to let you go.

You'll have to do
your community service

somewhere else.

I mean, you know Donna,
animals are our priority,

their health and well-being
has to come first.