Goodbye Pumpkin, we loved you so much
 

We got our first little girl over 2 years ago. It was love at first sight, and my wife and I loved her with everything we had. A few months later, we got her a companion, her brother Patrick, which was her brother from another litter.
On Sunday, she started vomiting with diarrhea, and we noticed blood in her stool. My wife took her to the ER and they tested her for dehydration, gave her subcutaneous fluids since she wasn't dehydrated too much, as well as antibiotics and a shot to stop the vomiting. We gave her some food after 8 hours as the ER instructed and she held that down. Later, we gave her some more food and she threw it up. We were worried, and later she drank some water and held it down fine, so we thought we just gave her too much food too soon. Monday, she ate a little bit, drank some water, and held that down. But she still had diarrhea, and late Monday night I saw more blood in her stool. Tuesday morning, we brought her to our regular vet. The vet checked her for dehydration, gave her some more subcutaneous fluids, and a stronger shot for the nausea and diarrhea. Later that day, she started shaking and limping when she would walk. We took her to the vet immediately and the vet said the fluids had fallen to her limbs, causing her a lot of pain. She gave her some pain medication and left. During the night, she started to get worse. She was moaning a lot, and when we would put her down, she would just walk a little and other times almost fall over. We called the ER and they said it sounded like normal side effects of the medication. As the night progressed, she started to have these short spasms of her muscles. We took her to our vet as soon as they opened. The vet wanted to watch over her because she would barely stand, just to make sure the pain medicine was out of her system. Unfortunately, he called at 11:00 yesterday morning and said he started to notice bruising under her belly, which was not there when I handed her to the vet. He did bloodwork and found that her blood had almost no white blood cells and was super thick with red blood cells. He suspected poisoning, but we watch them like a hawk and they hadn't gotten into anything. He started giving her fluids to flush out any toxins and thin her blood, but he said he wasn't sure what was going on. He set us up to go to the LSU Vet school in Baton Rouge (they're awesome from everything I've heard), and that we needed to bring her as soon as possible. When we got to the vet's office, she seemed completely unresponsive. They put her in the car with my wife with the IV drip and we drove almost an hour to the LSU clinic. The whole time she had trouble breathing, and we were so scared. When we got to the clinic, it just seemed to be one bad thing after another. Every time the doc came in, she was getting worse and worse. She found the same thing that our vet said, with the blood, and said she was completely unresponsive. They gave her some medicine, and it helped reduce swelling in her brain, and she started to get a little better. The doc wanted to do a plasmid transfusion, but she was still very concerned. We decided to go for it, even though it looked like a bad situation, and when we got in the car to leave, the doc called and said she went into cardiac arrest and they revived her. We rushed back in, and the doc said she was fairly certain it would keep happening. We made the tough decision that if she went into cardiac arrest again, we would just let her pass. We found a local hotel, drove to it, and decided to call to see how she was doing before we got a room. Unfortunately, the doc said she had just passed away after going into cardiac arrest again.
We went to see her and told her our goodbyes, and we had her brother with us. My wife and I cried our eyes out and Patrick sniffed her and then tucked his head into my wife's arms. We drove home in total shock and we've been heartbroken ever since.
We're not sure exactly what happened, but the LSU doc said it seemed like it might be a disease of the intestines that causes it to pass too much protein. She also said her glucose was low, so she might have had another disease that was kicking in at the same time. Since Patrick and Pumpkin are related, we're going to have him tested for it.
Last night our parents came over to be with us, and my wife and I are home and we woke up this morning and just talked for 2 hours at 4:00 AM. She was the first pet that ever stole our hearts, and she was the best dog we could have asked for. We loved her with everything we had, and looked forward to coming home every day for lunch and after work to be with them. Now we have a big void in our lives and we're trying to cope as best we can.

Pumpkin, we loved you more than anything in the world. You were our precious little Spunky Punky and you taught us so many thing in your short life and we are so sad that you are gone. Goodbye Pumpkin, we love you so much.

This is heartbreaking, I am so very sorry for your loss.

I am so sorry for your loss. You tried so hard to save her, sometimes it just isn't meant to be with whatever it was that has gone wrong. She will be waiting for you at the Rainbow Bridge, meanwhile she will be happy and playing until you come when your days are done on earth.

I am so sorry for your loss of little pumpkin. RIP sweetie.

I'm so very sorry for your loss. Your obvious love for her moved me deeply. RIP sweet Pumpkin.

My heart goes out to you and your wife and Patrick. It's always hard to lose a loved one. May the wonderful memories of your little furbaby bring you peace.

Thank you everyone for your nice comments and support at this hard time in our lives. Every time we read the new replies, it makes us very emotional, but in a good way. The support at this site is overwhelming and we can't thank you all enough.

I am so sorry....You did all that you could, Please find comfort in knowing that you will see her again-HUGS!

I am so sorry for your loss. :(

I am so sorry about your tragic loss of your little girl. I can tell how much you loved her and what a gift she was to you in her short lifetime. That love will last forever.

I'm so sorry for your loss. I can feel your pain. Your little girl will be waiting for you, when your time comes. She will greet you with many kisses.

I'm so very sorry for your loss, R.I.P. Sweet Pumpkin.

I am heartbroken for you. This brings back so many memories of last summer when we lost my beloved Sunnie while on vacation. RIP Pumpkin. Sunnie will be watching for you to look after you at Rainbow Bridge until your Mommy and Daddy meet you again.

I am so sorry for your loss.
My thoughts are with you and your wife and Patrick.
RIP little Pumpkin.

Im so very sorry for your loss :( My heart aches for you.... RIP Pumpkin:rbyorkie:

I'm so sorry for your loss :(

My heart is sad for you, your wife and Patrick. :( I am so very sorry for your loss. Rest in peace little pumpkin.

I am so sorry for your loss. I know you are heartbroken. Hugs.

Oh my heart breaks for you :( I am so very sorry for your loss.
You have a deep and profound love for your Pumpkin that comes across in your words , and your memories and that love you shared with her, will fill your heart always. Rest in peace sweet Pumpkin.

I'm sorry for the loss of your sweet baby. RIP Pumpkin.

My heart goes out to you and your wife on the loss of Pumpkin. It is always heartbreaking to lose one of our babies and so hard to understand when they go too soon.

So sorry for your loss.

Thanks again everyone for all of the kind words. I have been so exhausted because of everything that happened, and it's so hard to eat and sleep regularly. I'm just sitting up at 6:00 AM because I can't go back to sleep.
It's so true that it's so hard to understand why we lost her when we did. I knew from the first day we got Pumpkin that if there's one thing she would teach us (and she did), it's that love for another life is the most powerful thing on this earth. And we felt the same way again when we got Patrick. It was so powerful, that every day we got home from work and my wife and I would want to go eat out, we would have this tug to just stay home and spend time with them. Everywhere we went and left them at the house, that love made us want to come right back home. We always wished we could bring them everywhere with us because we always wanted to be with them.
My wife unfortunately never had a job on a computer where she had time to use the internet like I do, so she didn't have a chance to visit yorkietalk and hear about Rainbow Bridge. When she saw it mentioned here though, it brought tears to her eye. So did your story Sunnie. We both cried for your little one, especially the thought of Sunnie watching for her at Rainbow Bridge. And our hearts go out to everyone who has lost a beloved Yorkie. Knowing what we are going through, I'm so sorry for everyone who has gone through this as well.
One thing I have to say though, is that I'm so proud of our little boy Patrick. We were so worried about him being depressed, but he has been our little inspiration. We can tell he has moments where he misses his sister, but he's been eating, barking at dogs next door, loving on us, and we played so much with him yesterday. He was so hyper, I had him running around the house with his toy he loves us to chase him with. Our local vet who set us up with the LSU facility, told us he just lost a pet 2 weeks ago. He told us something that I always knew and it's so true; that we could learn a lot from them because they are SO resilient. I keep looking to Patrick for that resilience, because it makes me think if he can be our strong little man at this time, I can be strong as well.
Thanks again to everyone for their thoughts and prayers and for all of your thoughtful replies. My wife and I appreciate it so very much.

Very sorry for your loss.

I am so very sorry for the loss of your baby girl. I am praying for you. May God hold you close to Him.

I am so sorry for your loss. How tragic! :(

I lost a little guy when he was 5 months old to poisoning. It\'s terrible. I blamed myself for so long. I was not attentive enough, I was not there enough, I should have seen signs sooner. But in the end it was not my fault, nor is it yours. RIP sweet pumpkin, you were loved and will be missed so much!

Im so sorry you lost your little one.
My thoughts and prayers for you and your family.

I\'m so sorry for your loss of your little Pumpkin. She sounds like a real sweetie. I\'m glad her little brother is bouncing back; and hope you will too after you have a chance to grieve her loss. RIP sweet Pumpkin.

How sad that your little Pumpkin is gone. I know how hard it is to lose a furfriend. They are such a special part of our lives. RIP little Pumpkin.

I\'m sooo sorry for your loss. I got teary eyed reading your story. At least u know u gave her a good life.