BoiseCalvin
Posted : 9/6/2011 12:25:41 AM
Thanks for the prayers and kind thoughts for Boomer. We lost him on Friday 8/26, a week after he was diagnosed with IMHA. We thought he was doing ok but noticed his heart rate was elevated so my son and I took him back to the vet hospital. As we pulled into the parking lot of the hospital, Boomer got on the floorboard of the car and succumed. I picked him and and ran into the hospital where they tried to revive him but he was gone.
He was bleeding internally as there was blood coming from his mouth and nose. Callie thought this probably meant he had a platlet problem too but I haven't talked to the vet to see why or what happened. I'm not sure there was anything we could have done but my wife told me the other day that Boomer was having difficulty breathing the night before - she was going to wake me to take him to the clinic but she pet him a few times and he seemed to settle down. We of course find ourselves second-guessing if we could have done anything different to save him.
It's been less than two weeks - I'm still crying my eyes out. I do a video blog for my job and the intro to the blog was Boomer and I walking in our neighborhood. I cry every time I watch it - was also looking at puppy pictures of him and cried. We all miss him terribly. Frankly, I feel a bit of guilt that I feel more pain over losing Boomer than I have for some human family members that have died.
Anyway, I wanted to mention it here in case you hadn't see this on the IMHA forum. Thanks again.