I am so happy for you and your family. It has been made complete again!
I am learning how to live alone once again.
I can't, and wouldn't, presume to advise you what to do- I swore when Taffy was failing that I'd never have another dog, losing them is so awful... and yet, when she was gone, the silence...
You would never expect one medium-sized, aging dog to make so much commotion in a big old house, but after a couple of days, neither one of us could stand the quietness around here, and after driving around in the strange hope of seeing her where she had been picked up years & years ago by Animal Control, we went out there again, and like Miss Emily says about Cole, "He called to me..."
And boy, did he fix that "quiet" problem- barking, barfing, stealing stuff, scaring the bird half to death...