Posted on 01/19/2022 8:36:39 PM PST by Salamander
Please prayer for my PTSD dog's upcoming tests for his osteosarcoma
I sure hope you’re not at sea level.
Doesn’t Ore-gone have mountains somewhere?
If it does, get up on ‘em, please.
Sending you friendly love.
Prayers up for you and doggo Salamander. I have been through a very similar situation, ultimately the treatment didn’t matter as much as the dog’s will to live. She was a beautiful Chow, and a fighter and pulled for another year... I loved her so much, she was my tie to sanity. I asked her to tell me when she didn’t want to go on any more, and one morning she did. I made the mistake of waiting a whole year before getting my second Chow, but when she passed away just over a year ago (the day I was flying back from TDY, the worst... ugh) I didn’t make the same mistake, despite being utterly gut shot. I now have two Chows who are just as wonderful in their own ways, and after thinking I would never bounce back, I am very happy now, so hang in there kiddo.
I have had to euthanize a half dozen pet dogs, and it never gets easier. It is a much better experience than it was years ago. You hold your friend, then they administer the propofol and he falls asleep and your asked if you a sure about your decision and if you are they stop the heart with an injection of potassium. You leave the office with only a leash and think you will never do this again, but you get another dog. That’s the worst part of owning a dog, but the years of companionship are worth it.
Hi Sal, IâÂÂm sorry to hear about your old dog. IâÂÂve been lurking on this site for the better part of 20 years. I created this account for the sole purpose of responding to your post and IâÂÂm breaking self-imposed rules to do it. I tried to send you personal reply, but apparently IâÂÂm too new (which pretty funny to me). IâÂÂve been in your shoes and the only thing that stopped our tears was a new puppy. DonâÂÂt get caught without one. Damn retrievers.
Shari,
I will pray for you both. So sad to see you both in such pain.
Continued prayers for both your dog and for you !
I’m in hills around a bay. I can hear rough surf when I’m out in the yard, but I’m 400 feet above sea level. A big tsunami out of a different direction could prove disastrous for the area. It would likely be preceded by an earthquake that will already have devastated a good chunk of the coast. It worries me very little.
Prayers for Hrafi.
Prayers help people do the right thing when it’s time.
Thank you.
I woke up nauseous from not eating and forced myself to eat and now I feel worse.
My legs are like rubber.
So scared.
As a dog lover/owner since childhood I have loved and lost MANY dogs. It breaks your heart when each of them go.
I remember them ALL with love in my heart. I loved them more than most (almost ALL) people.
I currently have 2 Lhasa Apso’s, Willis and Bruiser, half brothers and both are 16 years old. They were both born here in this house. I watched and helped them be born.
It will break my heart again to see them go as I did both of their mothers (Sassy and Corky) and their father (Willie).
Just as it did our family dog Rex, over 60 years ago and all the others since. We know from the first day that their life span is so much shorter than ours. That we most assuredly (God willing) that we will outlive them all.
So we say goodbye with sadness and mourn for a time. Yet life goes on and I do believe dogs go to heaven, so we will see them all again.
A new dog will never replace the last, but with their own unique personality will win over our broken hearts with that unconditional love that we will never get from people.
Our lost pet is not replaced, but the new one will add more joy and love to our life.
I miss them all (typing with tears in my eyes) but as Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote in his poem “In Memoriam”
“I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
That poem in its entirety:
https://poets.org/poem/memoriam-h-h
In Memoriam A. H. H.
Alfred Lord Tennyson - 1809-1892
Yeah, you gotta take care of yourself, Shari. You’re not doing your doggie any good if you don’t. The folks at the vet’s office may end up sending you to the hospital.
Love & prayers to you & your beloved dog.
They couldn;t handle him so no xrays done.
Gave him drugs for the oncology visit.
And my mom fell in the driveway so I gotta take off to see if she’s okay ASAP.
I’m sorry it was a bust today but so grateful for all the kindness and support.
Maybe God’s not over worried about his lungs or leg and that’s why this keeps happening.
/yet another straw of hope and faith to desperately grab onto
Sorry to hear that. One more reason you have to stay strong and healthy !
As I type this, I’m laying in bed watching “Kung Fu,” (with David Carridine, circa 1972) but I sure miss Rascal to keep me warm. Yeah it feels we are both on the ledge at times and I went deep into debt myself. I might consider bankruptcy or credit counseling but I do it again for my pet, I value life and if there is a chance I can give my pets a good life despite medical buddies, I’d do it again. I’m like Mom on this one. At least I’m starting a new work at home job in 10 days, but things are tough under Bidenomics.
Just asking, how are you holding up and what is going on? Just picked up Rascal’s ashes and “brought him home” today and was thinking of you. BTW, there were several times I woke up in the middle of the night and I swear I saw Rascal sitting straight up next to me, looking at me and then he fades away. I’ve had lots of other experiences like that too, there were times I had out of body experiences and saw past pets come up to me although I do have a good story to tell.
I am not holding up well at all.
Everything is conspiring to doom my dog from vets who charge lots of money for little more than a doom filled outlook to car troubles.
The vet we chose is able to do the stereotactic radiation but she thinks it’s pointless and temporary.
She is Canadian.
Trying to get a second opinion from a vet in Rockville *if* I can manage to get there.
Just about giving up and accepting the worst.
To flesh it out, we can GO IN the place *4* times to use their bathroom, with techs sitting around unmasked but I cannot go in for 10 lousy minutes to keep him calm until they sedate him for x-rays.
I paid $279 for virtually nothing but a bunch of papers telling me “options” with estimates even though only one “option” was what she considered right, despite pointedly advertising the option I wanted and went there for, and then telling “yeah, no, we’ve decided that doesn’t work, now”.
How does any of that make sense?
The Coof can’t get me or them on 4 bathroom trips but it CAN get us all in 1 x ray room short trip?
How does that WORK!?!
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