Truley
Posted : 9/30/2007 9:22:05 AM
I have heard that clock, heard it loud and clear for over 2 years. In the end my family and I decided enough was enough. We decided to let her go down swinging, she could do whatever she wanted, no more pills, eat what she wanted, played when she wanted. No more pushing living on her because we wanted her to stay. She had an enlarged heart, a mass on her spleen/liver and damaged lungs from a car accident.
I can now say that the last 6 months of her life were probably the happiest. We talked to the vet and he was very blunt, she was not a canidate for surgery, he agreed with us to just monitor and keep her comfortable, but let her do what she deemed fun.
So once again she romped with children, sat on the porch and played the hostess, chased cats and balls, she got table scraps and steak. We took her for walks, to the lake, car rides everywhere. We spent every moment we could with her, I even took her for one last visit to see my mom and the family. In the last month or so we had to build a ramp for her to get on the bed and into the car, but it was built with love.
On her last visit the vet told us it was close, the mass was getting bigger, it would just be a matter of time before it did the final damage. We lost her 4 days later.
Babe