<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div id="yiv2369369108"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18454"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18478">I have not been on the DD for a long while now, lurking yes, but for the past two weeks I have really not wanted to know that dogs </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18481"> were going to the Bridge, It hurts and it hurts even worse when you
are told that </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18470"> your beloved Basset Hound that is
not even 10 years old yet</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18469"> has weeks left, maybe a month, two if things slow up a bit.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18468"> She started to visibly show she was losing weight, Mind you, she was my chunky</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18471"> girl, she, like me had no waist. Them it seemed like in just weeks she had a waist, </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size:
12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18472"> I could fell her spine. she had had a physical in early January, and a dental with a full blood </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18473"> workup the end of February. with nothing showing up.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18474"> So this days when I took her to the vet, I remembered my boy Sherlock atb, when he was suffering from</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size:
12.727272033691406px;"> congenital heart issues and how he huffed and puffed like she was
doing,</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18475"> My husband and I also noticed she was acting a bit lethargic like our Rex atb when he had spleen cancer.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> I was prepared for the worst or so I thought, </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18476"> when I saw the xray and saw the HUGE mass sitting in her chest in front of her heart, pushing it back and </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family:
monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18477"> starting to create fluid, not enough to drain, that is not the worst part, this tumor is pushing her trachea off to one side</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> making it quite tough to breath, </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> It cannot be aspirated </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> She is now on Prednisone to hopefully hole this at bay, and or slow it down. I also have her taking fish oil these too seem to be helping her, She has good times and bad times Her
breathing is sometimes so deep, she
looks gaunt. </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> I know she will let me know when the time is here. </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> I sleep out in my recliner so she is not alone at night. </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> So we are taking this situation one day, one hour at a time.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> Please hold my girl in your hearts as she goes through this D*** "C" that is so NOT fair.</span><br style="font-family:
monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;" id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18466"> Martha and Molly Bob Digger</span></div><div id="yiv2369369108yui_3_13_0_1_1397368073744_18454"></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>