It is already one week since life changed completely around us-can you imagine? One week-7 days gone by that this night turned to a cold and dark one when Bobo passed away. It feels like it all happened so many weeks ago, yet it feels like nothing ever happened at all. (more…)
IN MEMORIUM
Rest in peace my little one. I will cherish your memory forever, and the love that I have for you in my heart will never be extinguished.
I love you….Momma Maria
FEBRUARY 10th 1996-JANUARY 22nd 2006
It has been a tough few days. Hard to believe it has been only two days since our lives changed. It has been a long two days at that but one full of emotions and realizations. You wouldn’t believe how incredibly silent the house is. Even if there are 4 people around and the tv is on with the sound of the water pumps in the fishtanks. It is like someone left and took everything with them. A light has definitely gone out and now we are left sitting with candles trying to capture that same brightness. (more…)
I figured I would classify this topic under LISA’S LIFE because my dog was a great part of my life. Today I was with him when he left his body and made his descent to another world, somewhere without pain and perhaps with my other dogs. (more…)
I have a few blog entries to write but I thought I would write about my dog first since my last entry was about him as well. Last night on Christmas day, my parents rushed Thunder out to the animal hospital. The night before on Xmas Eve, he was really starting to tire out but who could blame him with all the noise and complete insanity going on at our house with way too many people over. As the night progressed, he was sleeping wherever he could and not looking all that well. Yesterday when I went to see him, he was very lethargic and could barely move…I figured it was because he was tired and just let him be. I set up to leave to go to Russ’s house so we could head a ways out of town to his parents house for dinner. (more…)
Christmas is around and it is that time of year to be thankful for the past year and look forward to a new one. I posted a long time ago about my dog underdoing chemo for lymphoma. Since then he has been in and out of remission. He would respond so well to treatment and then his neck would flare up. The vet changed the treatment plan to the 2nd option which is what he has been on-and he went out of remission again. Even though he is still the same and very healthy, the lumps in his neck keep coming back. His lymph nodes swell up and he has to go in for a shot. The problem is happening again and he already had his chemo last week. The procedure is that he can only do that once a month-to have anything in between would be VERY risky. (more…)
What a scary word, isn’t it?? I have only ever heard of it vaguely in the past and have not known much about it. The Vet called our house today in regards to the biopsy that was done on the lymph node of my dog, Thunder. It turns out that he DOES have Lymphoma but it is a slow moving one which means it should be easier to control and hopefully cure. Tomorrow he is going in for his first round of chemotherapy. Reading up on sites, they are saying that chemotherapy for dogs isn’t the same as for humans. Basically it means medicated treatment-so the sound of it at least isn’t quite as bad. (more…)
Tonight my family had quite a scare-the kind that makes your stomach turn and your face go white. The big “C”. Yes, cancer. I hate even writing that word down, anytime I hear of it being close to me or anyone I know-I feel sick. Not too long after Christmas, my dog had developed an abcess on his lower jaw-but this came after my dad felt a golf ball sized lump on the side of his neck. About a year ago, there was a small marble sized lump that grew on the bottom of my dog’s tummy. We were scared just incase it might be cancerous, but it turned out that it was some sort of fat deposit-rather normal in dogs. My dog is very slim, athletic and healthy so that helped. (more…)