Stage III. Poor little girl. She's been my best buddy for 13 years, got the wife and I (especially me) through some very hard times. Prognosis isn't good, they want to do chemo and says that it MAY give her UP TO a year more. I'm not putting my girl through that, she deserves better. I'll stock up on steaks and feed her like a queen until it's time...
Fuck, this sucks. Out of nowhere, too. Last week she's playing in the pool and being a dork, today she's all mope-ey and down because my wife keeps crying.
Trying, man. Thanks. As soon as her quality of life drops, we know what we have to do. Tonight, though, it's a double char burger from Habit fer her, hold the onions.
Yeah, all the reading we've done says best case, UP TO a year. Why make her suffer through chemo for that? We can't be that selfish, no matter how much it hurts to lose her. She's been too good a dog to suffer.
Wife keeps saying between tears "I just wanted a little more time". But we know no matter how long we had, we'd still want just a little more.
Dogs aren't meant to live like that. They are an example of life to the fullest and cancer treatment makes that impossible. It does in people too but with people the extra time is obviously more of a factor.
arlovskiwonmyheart - We were able to get a few good months with a steroid and something for the pain, the moment that showed signs of not working we said our goodbyes.
Yeah, we're doing the same thing. Moved her in from the garage so she can be on the carpet, in the A/C, and around us 24/7. Wife wants put put an air mattress by her bed in the laundry room. I may join her.
My little bro (even though she's a she) will want for nothing from now until the end.
It's like I've been reading a really awesome book for the last 13 years. I can still remember the beginning, I can remember all great stories in the middle...and now I'm to the last few pages. And I don't want to read them and be done. I want to put it down and make the last few pages last forever...
We're in the home stretch here. Went from chasing me down to get her chew bone on Friday to can't stand without help this morning. Have a 9am appointment with a home care vet to send her into that great beyond. Thought we'd get more time, but made the most of the last month. She was a brave soldier the whole time, even had pool days in between.
My wife is inconsolable, I feel like someone's ripping my insides out.
