I'm sorry to have to inform you all, we did not hang in there for the fight. With the negative blasto test, the anemia, low platelets...we were leaning toward tick borne illness. Still didn't have blasto out of the back of our minds, but it was looking more and more like a hidden cancer. Sadie had a rough night last night starting around 9 pm. Her appetite started decreasing again. We've had too many rough days and some better ones. If it was the tick borne illness, she should had had a much better response by now. I just couldn't sit around and wait until she got worse. I called our vet this morning and told her about our night last night. I have been pretty much afraid in my mind that it is cancer. So I was ready. As hard as it was - and it was the hardest thing I've ever done, I chose to put her down today. 3 weeks ago she was so very active and has been going downhill since then. She was 7 yrs old. The vet was so comforting. He let me drive her there and he came out to the car and sedated her there while she lay in my lap. Once she fell asleep he brought her in to euthanize her. I was not with her at that time, but I did stay with her until she fell asleep. He didn't want me seeing her die. "Keep those good memories of her, don't replace them with the bad ones". So I chose to let him do it by himself. She wouldn't have known I was there anyways. She fell asleep peacefully in my lap.
It was sooooo hard!!!!! I miss her so much!!!! My heart is broken!!!!
My vet is going to biopsy her lungs today so we can find out what it really was. If it turned out to be Blasto, I will definitely let you all know. But I'm thinking he will find cancer. With all of the lab work it just points that way. We just couldn't find any tumors. But we never checked her bone marrow. She was either going to get better or she wasn't, and she didn't. So with that said, I wish you all the very best of health for your dogs. Please know I will be thinking and continuing to pray for you. But I don't think I can visit this board anytime in the near future...it's just too painful right now. You all are a wonderful group of people who love their dogs as much as I do. Thank you so very much for your kind words and support.
RIP Sadie Lou 12/21/02 - 11/21/10.
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