[Ichabob]

I will try to get through this without to many misspell words through my tears.

Ichabob was 7yrs old and a diabetic for 3 yrs, I had fed innova and best in show since he was a pup. we also have my son black lab now (my son is in the marines) and my husband found a lad mix two years ago drowning in a river he bought him home and after putting up with mille the (lab) Ichabob and I said hell no we are not keeping him. well he became ELNO (for hell no)
my oldest daughter has a chocolate lab and y youngest daughter has a mix lad and a 1yr old great dane.
ok here we go
we live on 80 acreas with a live stream every few days the kids have what they call puppy play day here, and all the big dogs come and swim and play ball. for the day.. Ichabob (yorkie) was not allow to play with the big dogs because I felt like they were way toooooo big, but he love to bark at them when we would sling hot the tennis balls for them to run and bring back..
there always a rule that all tennis balls were accounted for at the end of the day the ones that got broken or ate would be trash..
one sunday after all the balls were accounted for or so I thought everybody went home.. Ichabob became sick on wednesday night throwing up a little,
by thursday morning he was no better so I took him to vets thinking it was just upset stomach that happen with dibetic dogs, he was still throwing up when I arrive at the vets and while there he threw up a piece of a tennis balla rather large piece to my shock . he seem better after that, but to be on the safe side they did xrays and found two more smaller pieces in his stomach
this vet opp to wait and see if he would throw up the last 2 pieces on his own before surgery, Ichabob was not a small yorkie he weigh in at 15lbs
I joke with my husband that Ichabob was a person trap in a dog suit.. he was my heat and soul. also this vet was new to me because we had just move to ms last sept. and this was march of this year. I question the vet decision to wait but he felt like with ich being a dibetic and a yorkie that surgey would be too much. ich had surgey on friday but by that time the tennis pieces had made there way into his instines it was bad. he made it thorugh the surgery put died during the night. the worst part was that the vet call us at midnight and said he was doingood that I could come see him first in the morning, when my husband and I walk in the vets the next morning thinking we were going to see him, we were told he had died early that morning, the vet stay with him through it all till the end. then I had guilt
that if I had drove the 140 miles to his old vet that outcome would have been different that they wouldn't have waited and he wouldn't suffer as long as he did.. I made a promise to Ich that after he became a ditetic that I wouldn't let him suffer becaue I couldn't let him go.. the last time I held him he was soo sick he didn't even want to look at me. in the end he suffer anyway.. life is so short don't take these little guys for granted. I did call my old vet had the xrays sent over he said he would waited too or they might of scope him instead of surgery..
the lord works mysterious way Ichabob was our only inside dog I didn't want another inside dog because had been the only one for 7yrs, three weeks till the day ich died my husband bought home a 2yr old jack russell terrier that we had first told me about last dec. that it needed a home and they wanted him to take her. of course I said no way, it would hurt ichabob feelings being the only child for so long. the subject was drop, until march 17 out of the blue the family calls back and pleds with us to take her they had pray and this was where she was to go. I gave in and said ok March 31 Ichabob dies.
she has help through the lost of our child dog for weeks I would hug her
pretending she was Ich and cry through her fur. Ichabob went to my niece wedding, to my son college graduation, to big bend tx for a death . he went everywhere we went if he couldn't go we didn't go.. I can't beieve losing a human child could hurt anymore then this has. I hope I never have to find out.
penny