[Dailydrool] Red Bay Pistachio Crunch (Stachie) - ATB

[Sandi Wittenberg]

RED BAY PISTACHIO CRUNCH (STACHIE) - January 13, 2010 - November 20, 2013

Red Bay Pistachio Crunch (Stachie) is at the Rainbow Bridge tonight.  My
beautiful mahogany boy was 3 years old.  It is surreal because it happened
so fast.  Yesterday morning he vomited part of his breakfast up.  He acted
ok all day, playing outside with the other seven youngsters.  Then at dinner
last night, he did not want to eat.  My antennae immediately started
wiggling and I took him in to my vet for an xray, suspecting he had chewed a
leg off a toy.  The vet couldn't feel anything definitive on palpation and
xrays were inconclusive.  We decided to take another set of xrays this
morning.  Again inconclusive but suspicious in one area.  He got an IV
started and we hung out at the vet to run another set a xrays this
afternoon.  He and I lounged in a run and took walks outside in the
sunshine.  The last set of xrays showed a section of the small intestine
that was enlarged.  Ultrasound showed the same thing.  Palpatation indicated
something round was in the intestines, so we went to surgery.  As soon we
opened him up, I knew.  He had tumors (cancer) all throughout his intestinal
tract ... several over 3 inches in diameter.  It was inoperable and very
advanced.  It was unbelievable to he had not been ill until the last 24
hours.  There were no choices ... I let my beautiful boy mahogany boy with
the kink in his tail go to be with Pat.  My heart is broken into tiny
pieces.  Fly free, my love, you have a piece of my heart.

 

It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart
with them. 

And every new dog who comes into my life, gifts me with a piece of their
heart. 

If I live long enough, all the components of my heart will be dog, 

and I will become as generous and loving as they are. 

~Unknown

 

Sandi Wittenberg

Red Bay Bassets

 

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