[yorkietalkjilly]

I'm so sorry you are hurting so badly. It's so heartbreaking to lose our little soulmate, our confidant and loyal best friend on this earth that it's hard to understand why illness, injury and life-span affect the one we care about more than almost anyone else. It never seems fair when we lose our beloved baby. Shock, grief and anger usually precede the beginnings of healing but if any of those periods are prolonged, keep talking about your baby and getting your feelings out, for starters. Keep a journal, post here, talk it out.

If you can rest, sleep, concentrate, work or interact well during any of this time, don't hesitate to reach our for some professional help just to get you past this point. Every one of us who've been around a while has been where you are - has lost our baby to disease, injury or age. Nature is nature and germs can sicken and sometimes kill, as do bad falls, liver disease, collapsing trachea, a car hitting a dog or another dog attack or even old age - many, many things go wrong with our babies as sadly, they all die of one thing or another but almost all of them die way, way too soon. Sickness, injury and death eventually catches up with every one of us on earth in one way or another. Learning some ways to cope with your great pain and loss will help you get through these next weeks and a grief support group or grief counselor can give you some coping tools to help you manage this horribly stressful time in your life so that you aren't hurting so badly. Coping tools aren't just gimmicks - they are ways people for centuries have managed to get through horrible ordeals and made it through and even helped others when they go through awful times in life. Maybe your doctor can prescribe some short term answers if you just reach out now - tell him or her you can't move past this pain and need help.

But most of us know exactly how you are feeling and how you hurt. Believe me, one day you gradually do begin to heal, life gets less painful and eventually, hope begins again in you. It really does and you just need some help getting there.