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Originally Posted by poppypatch  reading this has helped its been 18mths since i lost my patch and i am still finding it hard that ill never see him again,he was 12 years old and we had him from a baby, he was my baby boy and i miss him so much it still hurts and i still cry i kept thinking why does it still hurt so bad but now i have read this thread i know its normal to feel this way,and im not alone thank you xx   |
The 2010 Holiday season was miserable for us.
Our 12 yo Dobie was diagnosed with heart problems shortly after we purchased our 6 month, advanced, plane tickets for our annual W.V. Thanksgiving hunting trip.
In the months leading up to our trip he was doing fine. Age had settled in but he still had spunk. Dh's 96 yo Grama was having good days, and bad days. Absolutely no health problems. She wasn't on meds for anything. But her body was old and tired.
We discussed our trip with family and everyone agreed that we should still go. We had a friend stay at our house to take care of Worlock. And another friend who would stop by in the early afternoon to check on him.
Worlock turned 13 on 11/23. On 11/24, the day before Thanksiving, we got the call. Our friend found him laying in his bed with blood all over him. He rushed him to our Vet who called us. He was hemorrhaging really bad.
We had to make the most difficult decision to put him to sleep without us being there. Our friend stayed with him to the end and we are forever greatful to him.
In a lot of ways, I think it was best we didn't see him like that. And since this happened on a day that both of us would be at work if we weren't on vacation, he would have suffered much longer, and probably would have been dead by the time we got home.
"Nan' died on the 29th. The day we got back home.
I cried my eyes out this past year when I was pulling the Christmas stuff out and found Worlocks stocking.