Goodbye Chica

Our little dog Chica left us, she got very sick... After many test and a couple days of IV treatment we ruled out cancer. Tony and I assumed it was cancer because she had a growth on her. Test showed that the growth was just fatty tissue and Xrays showed that there was an object got lodged in the area that the stomach empties. the doctor said it may have been metallic because of the Xrays... We believe now that it was aluminum foil she got into. We had the option to do surgery, the total for everything would have been 2300.00. After long discussions and many tears we decided to go ahead with the surgery. Had it been something like cancer I would have let her go... but I could not justify her dying over aluminum foil... I still can't... but the doctors said there might have been to much damage to her insides and was not sure she would pull through, apparently she as in a lot of pain and they were giving her morphine in her IV... knowing all this and having only a few hours to decide her fate was not easy.... but in the end we decided to let her go... she was about 12 years old. And all though very healthy and active... this took so much out of her.

it was hard to let her go when we had reserved ourselves to the surgery. I still can't come to terms with it... but I pray she is happy where ever she is and she's playing with Dobbie in Doggie heaven.