Blue Days

Miss you Love

My furry son was sick for three weeks. He was a sweet sick boy. A quick downturn and I was taking him to a local vet, who said it was a severe infection and his heart was weakening, But gave me lasix and tetracycline and feeding orders, but took no blood urine or stool sample. He sent me home, with Blue. By the next week, the Chesapeake bay retriever / shepherd mix was doing marginally better, (force feeding does that) so I took him back to the same vet, and thought since he was hanging on, perhaps more effort would be put into finding the issue. That was Thursday night.  This time I was given just the lasix(water pills) and sent on home with Blue. By Saturday morning, my sweetie was vomiting and could not eat anything. He was even vomiting after drinking water. I called a higher end veterinary clinic and was given an appointment first thing Monday.

They admitted him IMMEDIATELY. Within 5 hours I had a phone call. They had run an extensive battery of tests. 1. blood, urine, fine needle aspirate. He was showing signs of cancer, which was more like reality than weak heart and water pills. I gave them permission to do everything in their power to figure out where Blue stood, and he was given IV fluids and steroids, (yes they are counter indicated in cancer, but they are needed if breathing is nigh impossible) and antibiotics. They kept him overnight Monday, and the next day, more tests were done. By evening, we were certain it was either leukemia, or lymphoma or BOTH, although his fine needle aspirations were full of smudge cells, and pretty unidentifiable. The vet told me we could bring him home, even though he was not eating, if I needed to and she would prescribe prednisone. But she was not happy with that, and neither was I. He would starve. Not fair. This morning, Mike and I went to the office and held onto our dog as he fell asleep. We loved him out loud until he was gone, and then brought him home and buried him. His pain is over. I made the right decision. I pray. Goodbye BLUE… I Love You.