06/14/2018
My friend Cathy needs your comforting word, hug, assurance...anything you could share with her to help with the loss...
Most of us went through it, it always hurts and it's painful.
Time heals...
Please help Cathy during that healing time and let her hear some comforting words or just click "like" to let her know you feel her sadness.
Following are the excerpts from Cathy's email, please read:
I lost my sweet precious little Lucy almost 3 weeks ago. She was fine one day and sick the next. I had her to the vet 3 times and by the time I got her to another vet for a second opinion there was little we could do to save her. Genetics doomed her from birth, and the original vet just didn't do enough to try to get a diagnosis. I had to go to the internet on the yorkie forums to find that, and even after I handed him the diagnosis, something I'm sure he hadn't dealt with before, he didn't even call an expert to consult. He also didn't tell me she had a 3 out of 4 heart murmur. I don't know how he would have missed it, or the vet where her original owner took her. It's called leaky gut. They leak protein into their gut. She may have had liver shunt too. We'll never know for sure because I didn't want a necropsy done. She was only 3 years old. I was privileged to be her mommy for the 2 short years we had her, and I wouldn't trade one day with her for a year with a genetically sound healthy dog, but I'm devastated. I nursed her day and night for 2 weeks, watching her decline. She may have gotten sick sooner had I not had found you and your food.
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I wonder if she didn't know that she wasn't long for the world because she made the most of, and never had a bad day. Any time I took her for a walk in her stroller, a car ride, or anywhere she drank everything in. She was always excited to be out and about meeting new people and new 4 legged friends. She wasn't just my esa on paper and I feel like I lost a limb. She definitely took a chunk of my heart with her. There will never be another that can fill those tiny little paws, but I'm hoping another little hummingbird will find her way to me sooner rather than later.
