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Originally Posted by dottiesyrky  Dear Sheila.
How I feel for you. Only you know what the test numbers for Kia are. You must have caught the disease early as you tested, and should be more able to prevent the devastation that you experienced with Sydney. So please do not feel the path for Kia will be the same.
Only too well I know the 75 percent thing. My dog was 11.5 years old and had been a little off color for a few days, so I took her to the vet thinking she just had a tummy upset. Only to find she was in acute kidney failure. In spite of heroic vet efforts she died in three days. I was devastated and could not believe she was relatively normal one day and gone the next. She did not tell me she was so sick and I felt so guilty that she was feeling so bad and I did not know or help her.
I pray that you will be able to have Kia with you for a long time.
Love and prayers. |
Dear Dottie,
Thank you-you are so very kind. the sad thing is-Sydney's levels were low, too, just like Kia's and still.....we lost her less than 5 months later. So, it is very scary.
There is no way to know how quickly renal failure will progress, but Kia has "rubber jaw", has lost most of her teeth. And she is so tiny. Just 3.9#s.
I am in tears, as I type, reading that you lost your little one in just 3 days.
But please, please, do not blame yourself. Renal failure is very sneaky. It does it's damage, quietly, slowly.
A week before my sweet Sydney died, she was galloping through my living room, like a little pony, with one of her favorite stuffed balls in her mouth.
Believe me, I have blamed myself so much. I was busy, leaving for morning mass each day, because I am a Eucharistic Minister and I needed to be in the Sacristy by 7:15. I think, if only I had been home with her in the mornings, I would have noticed changes.
But, chronic renal failure doesn't show itself, until so little can be done.
My tiny Kia spends her days, sleeping.
And it was so hard on her when Sydney died. She didn't know a life without Sydney.
I am so sorry we share the same pain.
But, please, don't blame yourself.
(((Gentle Hugs)))
Sheila