[BonBon]

Originally Posted by Anaic

Its so hard anytime we have a furbaby with any illness, disease, or ailment. No one knows what we go through at the time. Hours of no sleep, worry, gut wrenching agony what to do.

I wanted to give you hugs to the two of you. Though you dont know me, wanted to emotionally support you here.

You are a wonderful furmommy to Alexander. I am sure what he's given you is more than any of us will know. All our babies are precious to us but they give us so much more. We learn from them compassion, patients, endless unconditional love.

I think their greatest gift to us is what we learn in caring for them and educate others, sharing it here in YT about their diseases, illness, trauma, and behavior problems and to teach. With that is the comfort we provide them in terms of love, toys, etc. So we can spoil them.

Just like our human population getting older we find diseases now unheard of 20 years ago because of the life expectancy is getting longer. So it reflects on our furbabies too, they are growing older, living longer with all about the same illness our human elderly counterparts are encountering.

I never stopped to think of Canine dementia of being an issue, but I never thought Dad would end up with Alzheimers either. What a similarity in symptoms. I cried though the entire thread, ashamed to say passed it by when it started I knew what it was about, but it was so close to home for me.

Please accept my apology for not posting sooner to say I am here for you too!

We all grieve during this process remember that, it likes to sneak up on you. But if your aware of it you can work through it during this difficult time. Its the loss of what we had with our furbaby, what we are going through at this time in the present, and what we know will eventually come.

But I know you will continue to give Alexander all that you can and more each day making it an awesome day for him to live out his remaining time with you.

Bless you both and give you time.

Anne

What a beautiful post, thank you! I was going to highlite some of your great points, but I found I'd have to highlite every word. You make some excellent points about what these little ones mean to us, what they teach us, how they help us grow and be better....and you said it all beautifully. I'm so sorry about your father having alzheimer's, that's such a painful, wasteful illness. I'm sending warm hugs for you. Thank you for your kindness and support.

Bonny