This teddy bear was DOA - dead on arrival from a dog attack. Chasey would stare at it and plan and plan in her head how to go about this repair. She would even dream about how to fix this teddy bear. And when his messy foam stuffing was removed he looked like nothing more than a pile of old rags. Chasey worriedly thought, " what the heck did I get myself into?"

This was, to say the least, not an overnight repair. Just the planning on how to go about this complex repair took a fair amount of time. But the day finally came when Chasey felt confident and started in.

I don't know this teddy bear's name but I have one for him. Can you guess? It's Lazarus. He was raised from the dead and even gained some character in the process.

At long last he is on his way home, reborn. - S. C. Beam