Big Decisions

I've decided something.  I am going to stop pretending to myself that I will get all my holiday info and snaps up on my blog sometime this century!  I can't seem to find the time (or inclination) and it is holding up my using the blog for anything else!  I've decided to just get my photos printed out and write notes against them in the photo albums.  That will have to do.

My other big decision relates to my dog Ricky.  Last week a huge growth appeared on her armpit while I was at work.  The vet did tests and determined it was a sarcoma.  Since then it has grown bigger and is coming up in other areas.  Something has also 'burst'.  Back to the vet tonight to see what else can be done to keep her comfortable as this is all going to progress quite quickly now by the look of it.  I knew there would come a day when I'd have to put her down but that still doesn't make it any easier now that it is actually a reality. I'm already finding it hard to sleep through the night without checking on her and I feel sick leaving her and going to work every morning.

PS Wanna see a pic of a sarcoma?  Yeah, thought not!

Comments

[Karen Lynn]

I want to see a picture of your furbaby!

I'm so sorry she's sick.  My first dog, Abby...she stayed with me 17 years, 17 short years, long for a dog, short for a human..the love they give, the faithfulness, the "looks".   I kept her as long as I could, but the day I found her sleeping in poop, well I knew it was time.  She had also lost her vision, it just kept getting progressively worse, and she wandered through the railing of my staircase and fell down.  I knew it was time. 

She gave me so much love, so much joy.  When it was her time, I held her in my arms as she took her last breath.  I cried my eyes out, for weeks..and even now, 2 years later, as I write this, the tears flow.  The very least I could do for her, the very last I could do for her, was to let her leave my world in my arms.  Dear Abby, I so miss you.

Dogs are good.  Hugs to you...you will know when.  And I'll be holding your hand through the miles.

[Diary of an Enigma]

Karen there is a pic of my two dogs in my very first post - about a year ago. The black one is the one with cancer and the white one has the MS - he's gotten worse just recently so it's time to find us a specialist vet I think.