06/03/2019
You get to know your Veterinarian’s voice, I would say.
It’s a strange thing. Probably because it’s a voice that we really pay attention to. Probably it might be. So when my vet Sara called me today to let me know Maddie‘s fifth chemo treatment was finished, I could tell there was something else and that she wanted to keep me on the phone for a minute.
Maddie’s chemo isn’t working. In fact, the cancer has grown while she’s been on chemo and her lymph nodes are swollen to the point that she is raspy when she breathes. She recommended that we stop the chemo therapy treatment and start spending as much time with Maddie as we can. There’s really no time frame known... just that there’s nothing more we can do.
I told her that I would be at her office in 10 minutes To pick Maddie up and I would like to meet with her for a few. Sara gave me a list of what to look for with oxygen deprivation and depression. But she said since I’ve had Maddie since she was a little puppy, I would know. I would just know and there’s really no explanation for it. I would just feel it and know it was time to bring Maddie back up there.
So over the next days, weeks or months, Maddie will be involved just like she always has been, with almost every event I go through or that my family goes through. She follows us everywhere anyways, so it’s really there’s no change. Except maybe she gets to sleep in the bed every night. In fact she will, by executive decision.
So if you see Maddie around the ranch, she loves random treats and all the loves.