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[Overread19 7]

My thanks all!

Sorry about your dog. They are like family members. Cook has taken ill and has barely eaten the last week or so.

Sorry to hear about Cook - hope that Cook can pull through!

Sadly with animals they tend to try to hide pain/problems so when they go down they tend to go down fast. Then again people can be like that too.

 

[limr33 3]

My thanks all!

Sorry about your dog. They are like family members. Cook has taken ill and has barely eaten the last week or so.

Sorry to hear about Cook - hope that Cook can pull through!

Sadly with animals they tend to try to hide pain/problems so when they go down they tend to go down fast. Then again people can be like that too.

Cats are even worse than dogs. In living or in dying, they are particularly stubborn creatures.

 

[jcdeboever]

My thanks all!

Sorry about your dog. They are like family members. Cook has taken ill and has barely eaten the last week or so.

Sorry to hear about Cook - hope that Cook can pull through!

Sadly with animals they tend to try to hide pain/problems so when they go down they tend to go down fast. Then again people can be like that too.

Cats are even worse than dogs. In living or in dying, they are particularly stubborn creatures.

I know that's right. It was a bad time when my Ping was ill. Couldn't do anything to help him. The trip to the vets pretty much did him in.

 

[limr33 3]

My thanks all!

Sorry about your dog. They are like family members. Cook has taken ill and has barely eaten the last week or so.

Sorry to hear about Cook - hope that Cook can pull through!

Sadly with animals they tend to try to hide pain/problems so when they go down they tend to go down fast. Then again people can be like that too.

Cats are even worse than dogs. In living or in dying, they are particularly stubborn creatures.

I know that's right. It was a bad time when my Ping was ill. Couldn't do anything to help him. The trip to the vets pretty much did him in.

Poor Ping

My little Gomer Pyle went downhill so fast that I ended up putting him to sleep less than a week after I realized he wasn't well.

 

[vintagesnaps]

So sorry to hear that Overread, and Gary I hope Cook's OK.

 

[tirediron]

Today is a BAD DAY.....

Two weeks ago our dog had a painful shoulder/limp that wet took her too get checked just in case; perfectly fine from that a few days later. However since then she's gone downhill in other ways and this last week has hardly eaten any food. But despite that she's got bright eyes, has moments of being bouncy and even caught a pheasant the other day. So today we took her in for a full scan and discovered that she's got extensive lung cancer. She's 11 1/2 years old and its way beyond any treatment - sadly those breathless/huffing/puffing moments that one can so easily see as signs now were put down more to her just getting a little older and being an active dog most of the time (pulling on walks - charging around and generally being a husky).
So she's on antibiotics and steroids. Vet thinks she's got weeks to maybe two months before it will be time to put her down. So time for her to enjoy life a bit; have good food and such. Lung cancer apparently doesn't cause pain due to a lack of pain receptors or such in the lungs themselves and she's not showing pain overtly. Still a very grim and dark day


Then to add insult a company who produces miniatures/games that I play and was running a Kickstarter to launch new factions into the game has closed shop today. Granted this is nothing like as bad as our dog but its still a bad thing.


So yeah bad day today

Very sorry!

 

[Overread19 7]

Thanks all for the continued support!

Our husky certainly is very sure that she HATES the vets. In her defence she only goes there when she's feeling really bad and then they do nasty things with needles!! It's not like she's been there very often but she knows as soon as she steps out the car that she's there and really doesn't want to be there any more! But yes going to the vets can certainly take it out of an animal who is already weakened.

 

[Frank F.]

I was shooting insects and flowers in the botanical garden Bonn today, when I heared a unique voice sing. I went there and asked him for a portrait:

Someone in Bonn can afford to have Herman van Veen play at their private party....

 

[vintagesnaps]

Gary sorry to hear about what's going on with your cousin, and your friend. I don't know if you know I had a stroke, if you want to ask me about it. Seems like it varies how it can affect someone. It can be a long recovery but it's possible to keep getting better, the brain has a rather amazing ability to heal (the nerves are apparently what take time). Hope your cousin gets better.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary sorry to hear about what's going on with your cousin, and your friend. I don't know if you know I had a stroke, if you want to ask me about it. Seems like it varies how it can affect someone. It can be a long recovery but it's possible to keep getting better, the brain has a rather amazing ability to heal (the nerves are apparently what take time). Hope your cousin gets better.

Thank you. This is extremely severe and complicated. His BP and temp have been extremely high they've had to execute a tracheotomy and he's had a drain in and out since being admitted. He's is finally responding relatively definitively to outside stimuli. We think he has turned a corner.


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[vintagesnaps]

I wondered if it might be more involved than what I experienced, that there were other medical things going on. Needing a trach etc., that sounds serious. I'd been thinking I hadn't been in intensive care, then realized, I'm not really sure; I remember only maybe 3 brief moments of the first week or so. Hope he's over the worst.

 

[Gary A.]

Today is a BAD DAY.....

Two weeks ago our dog had a painful shoulder/limp that wet took her too get checked just in case; perfectly fine from that a few days later. However since then she's gone downhill in other ways and this last week has hardly eaten any food. But despite that she's got bright eyes, has moments of being bouncy and even caught a pheasant the other day. So today we took her in for a full scan and discovered that she's got extensive lung cancer. She's 11 1/2 years old and its way beyond any treatment - sadly those breathless/huffing/puffing moments that one can so easily see as signs now were put down more to her just getting a little older and being an active dog most of the time (pulling on walks - charging around and generally being a husky).
So she's on antibiotics and steroids. Vet thinks she's got weeks to maybe two months before it will be time to put her down. So time for her to enjoy life a bit; have good food and such. Lung cancer apparently doesn't cause pain due to a lack of pain receptors or such in the lungs themselves and she's not showing pain overtly. Still a very grim and dark day


Then to add insult a company who produces miniatures/games that I play and was running a Kickstarter to launch new factions into the game has closed shop today. Granted this is nothing like as bad as our dog but its still a bad thing.


So yeah bad day today

Sorry about your dog. They are like family members. Cook has taken ill and has barely eaten the last week or so.

Poor girl. Maybe a different foot? Sorry to hear this. She is special.

Assuming "foot" = food ... Gary's been all over that. Normally she dry food available 24/7 and she snacks. In the evening she eats a can of wet.

When she shut down eating ... I've been trying everything. She was just eating the only dog treat she likes, a chicken jerky treat ... then she stopped, then sliced deli turkey ... then she stopped, next was cook ground turkey ... then she stopped ... next was sliced deli cooked ham ... then she stopped ... then Tri-tip and now we're on roasted grocery store chicken. All hand fed. The vet thinks it all due to age. For a week+ no walks. Two days ago, after a decent meal of chicken, we walked almost a block and yesterday we made a block. Gary gave her tri-tip and chicken this morning ... nada.


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[Gary A.]

PS- She does better when fed by hand so ... hand feeding it is.


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[Gary A.]

I wondered if it might be more involved than what I experienced, that there were other medical things going on. Needing a trach etc., that sounds serious. I'd been thinking I hadn't been in intensive care, then realized, I'm not really sure; I remember only maybe 3 brief moments of the first week or so. Hope he's over the worst.

The docs say he most likely won't remember his stay.


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[Gary A.]

On a more positive note ... the kid Gary and Mary Lou adopted and helped secure a spot at Berkeley... text me today that after his first week he cannot believe how tough it is ... but he's loving it!


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