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12-03-2017, 05:41 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Knoxville
Posts: 39
| Heartbroken over losing Max 11-12-2007 11-27-2017 Can't talk about it now. I'll tell my story later. I posted how we lost max in another thread but i guess it's not been moderated yet. |
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12-03-2017, 06:29 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: E.Stroudsburg, Pa.
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| So very, very sorry for your loss, Max was a little cutie. (((hugs)))
__________________ Joan, mom to Cody RIP Matese Schnae Kajon Kia forever in my A House Is Not A Home Without A Dog |
12-03-2017, 07:35 AM | #3 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Knoxville
Posts: 39
| Max just turned 10 years old on November 12th. He had health problems but they were under control with medication. He was diagnosed with a collapsed trachea in 2015 after he developed long periods of coughing spells. He had been on medication ever since. So coughing for him wasn't out of the ordinary. It's just heartbreaking sitting here writing about this because this time a week ago I had never heard of this site and the only reason I'm here today is because of his death. What happened to max started on Monday the 27th in the evening hours. Max became restless and started walking around the house. He'd try to lie down but then he'd get back up a few seconds later and walk around some more. Kept repeating the same routine. He was uncomfortable but never appeared to be in pain. He even stopped at his water bowl and got a few drinks as he was walking around. He used the restroom and showed no pain. He just could not get comfortable at all. He did wonder off in areas of the house he normally stays out of though. Like the spare bathroom. He never goes in there ever. But he did on that night. He just looked around and walked back out. His cough has always been present but that night it sounded like he was becoming congested a little. Couldn't tell it much until he coughed after drinking water then you could hear a little congestion. His cough sounded different. Right before he died he pawed at my wife's leg wanting in her lap in the recliner. She sat him there for about a minute and he wanted back down so she sat him back down. He then wanted on the couch with me so I put him up there. He tried to lay in my lap but couldn't he was just too restless. He got up and went to the edge of the couch and stood there. He started panting faster. I put him in the floor and he took two maybe three steps and collapsed. :'( his big ole eyes never shut again I heard his last breaths they were raspy. His little legs jerked a couple of times and that was the last movements he made. I picked him up but he was like a rag doll just very limber. There was a puddle of clear liquid mixed with blood under his head. My wife thinks it came from his eye but it could have came from his mouth. I rushed him to the university of Tennessee emergency veterinary hospital around midnight but he was gone when we got there. They did not diagnose what happened. Once they told me he was gone we walked out in tears. We got back home and I put him in a casket at 1 in the morning and sealed it up and buried him the next day. It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I loved him more than life itself. Mark |
12-03-2017, 07:38 AM | #4 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Knoxville
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12-03-2017, 12:55 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Citrus Heights, California USA
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| Hi Mark, I just welcomed you the other day. I'm so sorry for all you have been through. I'm sure it will take time for you to feel better. God Bless!
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12-03-2017, 01:35 PM | #6 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: E.Stroudsburg, Pa.
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| I have lost several of these precious little babies, it doesn't get easier. Please try to take comfort in, it was Max's time to leave you, he was in the comfort of his home with his loving family, not in a crate at the vet and passed without his family. My heart just breaks for you and your wife. Hugs to you both.
__________________ Joan, mom to Cody RIP Matese Schnae Kajon Kia forever in my A House Is Not A Home Without A Dog |
12-03-2017, 01:54 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 5000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Brownstown MI USA
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| Our hearts cry with you. Max is waiting for you at Rainbow Bridge.
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12-03-2017, 04:18 PM | #8 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Knoxville
Posts: 39
| I knew he was in the last stages of his life but we still weren't prepared for the suddenness of it all. He was 10 and slowing down a bit but we thought we wouldn't have to worry about death until he was 12 or 13. Never in a million years did we think he would lay in our lap one minute and be gone the next. Watching him pass away is the worse feeling in the world. We felt so helpless when he needed us the most. It still like a bad dream. |
12-03-2017, 07:19 PM | #9 |
YT Addict Join Date: May 2014 Location: Fishkill, ny, USA
Posts: 487
| So very sorry for your tragic loss. I lost my 3 year old tragically to collapsed teachea. It’s so hard when it’s very sudden. Praying for peace for you and your wife at this hard time. |
12-03-2017, 08:04 PM | #10 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: hou,tx,usa
Posts: 238
| ............I am so sorry for your loss......I know how you feel...Max is playing in Heaven with my beloved Bella... .....(((Hugs)))
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12-04-2017, 06:09 AM | #11 |
YT 2000 Club Member | Dog My Teddy Peanut Bear passed at 10 yrs also. So sad. He was like Max. The sweetest little yorkie. I believe the Lord in His goodness will have our yorkie there in a glorious place waiting for us. Take comfort in this . I will pray for you. |
12-05-2017, 05:22 AM | #12 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: E.Stroudsburg, Pa.
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| I had one baby who passed in my home. She was fine, not sick, not on any meds. We had just come home from a camping week end. Once in the house I saw she was restless, kept going from room to room, going into rooms that she never did in the 13 years she was with me, I found that behavior kinda strange because she was always in the same room with me. Then I realized it was about 1/2 an hour and I had not seen her, I went room to room looking for her. I found her passed away in the den. Then i realized the reason she was restless, going from room to room was, she was looking for a place, she knew she was going to die. I had read when a dog knows it's their time, they look for a place to pass away. I wrapped her in a blanket and drove to the vet with her on my lap crying all the way. The vet asked did I want an autopsy done to find the reason of her death. I asked would that bring her back? No, I didn't want that. Over time I came to peace with myself and realized if she had to leave me it was better she passed in her home. I had one baby left that went into a state of deep depression, I couldn't mourn the death of my baby, I had to stay strong and up beat for my baby girl that was now the only fur baby. I had just lost 2 babies 6 months apart. It was horrific to find my girl had passed away when there was nothing wrong with her.
__________________ Joan, mom to Cody RIP Matese Schnae Kajon Kia forever in my A House Is Not A Home Without A Dog |
12-06-2017, 08:50 AM | #13 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Ansonia,Ct
Posts: 233
| I am so sorry for your loss. |
12-07-2017, 07:00 PM | #14 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Alexandria, Virginia
Posts: 146
| Being there at home when our babies leave us gives us the opportunity to love them when they need us the most. Losing Jaya is the worst pain I have ever felt and I’m so sorry for the loss of our babies, a pain that never goes away. I was blessed with every day I had her, as we are all blessed with these precious little lives. |
12-07-2017, 07:36 PM | #15 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Knoxville
Posts: 39
| It's been 10 days now since Max passed away. The pain comes and goes but mostly comes. It honestly feels like he's still here. I found myself raising the front storm door shade a couple of times out of habit so he can see outside. I Didn't realize I had done it for a few hours. There was a pair of house shoes laying in the floor the other day and for a second I thought it was max as I caught a glance out of the corner of my eye. It's very lonely in the house now. Even with my wife and daughter in the same room the atmosphere is very gloomy. No one really talks now. It all happened so fast with max it just doesn't seem real even today. Everytime I think back to that evening I wonder if I could have done something or what did I do wrong. After he collapsed I felt helpless and didn't protect him when he needed me. All I could do is watch him go :'( I wish that I had never had to watch him die. I can't get it off my mind at all. He has gifts under the tree. He has a stocking and now he's gone. I wish Christmas would hurry and be over with this year. It just won't be the same. We have a big blow up santa in the living room and every year my daughter holds max and we take their picture together posing in front of Santa for the yearly growth chart. it's heartbreaking that he won't be in the picture this year. I hope he knew how much we all loved him. We didn't have a chance to really say it the night he died until after he was gone. If he's looking down from heaven I want him to know we love him and miss him dearly. |
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