Post by velvetfuzzbutt on Sept 10, 2009 21:31:47 GMT -5
Teencie Weensie
December 31, 2002 - September 10, 2009
I am terribly sad to post this, so bare with me if I ramble or don't make total sense. This morning (she passed around 10:30 am) I took Teeners into the vet hospital my sister works for and helped her cross over.
I got home from work last night and went upstaires to get everyone up and playin so I could get in the shower. Cobain and pistol were all cuddles- but teencie didn't move. I thought she had passed buther nose twitched. I rushed down and made a thin soup and started force feeding her. As most of the regulars here know she was diagnosed with Insulinoma at the begining of may and on pred, I thought this must be a bad crash.. just needed to eat. She was limp, dehydrated and her eyes were quite lifeless.
I found dried black [bloody] diarrhea on their bedding, and new this was really bad. I continued to feed her and over the coarse of a few hours and she took in a lot...she really got better. She had diarrhea twice before bed at midnight, but it was getting lighter and more solid. I was confident she'd be okay, and set my alarm for 3:30am to feed. I woke up and she was al the way back to square one- only now she would not eat or take anything. I took her to bed with me and just layed there the rest of the night with her curled next to me waiting for her to pass.
At 7:30am she drug herself our of her blankie and started pulling to get off the bed. I didn't understand until she exploded with more deep, black diarrhea all over my sheets. I knew it was time, I knew She had fought for me and I knew tha aside from subQ fluids and pain drugs there wasn't much if anything my vet DR. Murray could do. I called in work and made the appointment ith my sister.
She was given a pain shot, and then they gave her an overdos of thier anethesia drug into her stomach (they didn't want ot inject the heart). It took a while for the drug to absorb but she did pass quietly and soundly. She stopped her twitching as soon as she had diarrhea on my and her blanket. I had her cremated and should get her ashes back anytime (possibly tomorrow as the office requested she be done as soon as possible and had them make an extra trip for pick up today). They took molds of her paws for me too.I am not sure i I will keep all of her ashes or not- I am currently trying to track down a necklace urn keepsake I saw a while back(can't for the life of me find it) in a dog magazine and have one made.
I am sad but I know it wasthe right choice. It still feels unreal, especially when I hold Cobain and Pistol..but theres no Teencie. I keep going through waves where it hits me she isn't going to come back, she won't be there for movies in the middle of the night, she won't be there for my all my lows. I've grown so much as a person in the six years with her by my side that it just doesn't seem possible for Teencie not to be with me.
These two photos were taken at about 4:00am today, thanks to my sister who woke up and took them for me. She will always be the most beautiful girl i've ever seen.
*cross posted =(
December 31, 2002 - September 10, 2009
I am terribly sad to post this, so bare with me if I ramble or don't make total sense. This morning (she passed around 10:30 am) I took Teeners into the vet hospital my sister works for and helped her cross over.
I got home from work last night and went upstaires to get everyone up and playin so I could get in the shower. Cobain and pistol were all cuddles- but teencie didn't move. I thought she had passed buther nose twitched. I rushed down and made a thin soup and started force feeding her. As most of the regulars here know she was diagnosed with Insulinoma at the begining of may and on pred, I thought this must be a bad crash.. just needed to eat. She was limp, dehydrated and her eyes were quite lifeless.
I found dried black [bloody] diarrhea on their bedding, and new this was really bad. I continued to feed her and over the coarse of a few hours and she took in a lot...she really got better. She had diarrhea twice before bed at midnight, but it was getting lighter and more solid. I was confident she'd be okay, and set my alarm for 3:30am to feed. I woke up and she was al the way back to square one- only now she would not eat or take anything. I took her to bed with me and just layed there the rest of the night with her curled next to me waiting for her to pass.
At 7:30am she drug herself our of her blankie and started pulling to get off the bed. I didn't understand until she exploded with more deep, black diarrhea all over my sheets. I knew it was time, I knew She had fought for me and I knew tha aside from subQ fluids and pain drugs there wasn't much if anything my vet DR. Murray could do. I called in work and made the appointment ith my sister.
She was given a pain shot, and then they gave her an overdos of thier anethesia drug into her stomach (they didn't want ot inject the heart). It took a while for the drug to absorb but she did pass quietly and soundly. She stopped her twitching as soon as she had diarrhea on my and her blanket. I had her cremated and should get her ashes back anytime (possibly tomorrow as the office requested she be done as soon as possible and had them make an extra trip for pick up today). They took molds of her paws for me too.I am not sure i I will keep all of her ashes or not- I am currently trying to track down a necklace urn keepsake I saw a while back(can't for the life of me find it) in a dog magazine and have one made.
I am sad but I know it wasthe right choice. It still feels unreal, especially when I hold Cobain and Pistol..but theres no Teencie. I keep going through waves where it hits me she isn't going to come back, she won't be there for movies in the middle of the night, she won't be there for my all my lows. I've grown so much as a person in the six years with her by my side that it just doesn't seem possible for Teencie not to be with me.
These two photos were taken at about 4:00am today, thanks to my sister who woke up and took them for me. She will always be the most beautiful girl i've ever seen.
*cross posted =(