My parents & I are taking our beloved 10-year-old family dog Strider to a doggie cardiologist at 9am because he’s having some issues with heart failure & has been breathing incredibly laboredly the last few days. He’s on lots of meds right now to try to drain the fluid from his lungs and I am beyond upset to see him go through all of this – I was crying so badly when my parents filled me in that I half-paid attention to the first 20 minutes of Lost. Yeah, I’m an overemotional human being. It’s 1am Thursday morning right now, but Wednesday started with a very sad funeral and ended with news of my dog’s status as mortal. Mixed in was my sad feelings about my last day of work and a phone call from Brian that he was canceling our plans to see The Daily Show on February 9, which I had been looking forward to for months. Oh well, I’m sure karma’s doing this to me & I can’t complain, just be…whatever. I didn’t really like today very much. I don’t know if I’ll be sharing any more details or not about Strider’s condition. It makes me upset even typing about it now & the last 40 minutes of Lost cheered my spirits. Hey Jin! Hey Rousseau! Wud up sluts?
This cracks me up. It’s being going around since Monday but I’m thinking about adding it to my “I Have a 10 Hour Drive to Raleigh, NC” playlist next week. Please tell me you love it. Jay, Robin & Chris enjoyed it. It’s Christian Bale’s tirade against the Director of Photography on the set of “Terminator: Salvation,” but remixed a bit.
Hey Colleen. I totally know how you feel. My dog also started having health problems when he was 12 years old. He was at the vet for 3 days straight because he had an hepatic something (can’t remember exactly) he had an IV connected and everything. Also at that time they diagnosed him with heart problems, this was normal considering his age. Also the bacteria from his teeth went straight to his heart. Some of his teeth had to be removed, like 11, because they were loose and it hurt him when he ate. So all of this time it was very sad for us. After that we had to give him medicine everyday for his heart. But he was a very normal dog, still playful and everything, you couldn’t tell he was sick. Until 8 months ago he passed away. It was all very quick, he didn’t suffer. I wasn’t even at home, I was on vacations! Don’t know if it was good or bad not being there at the moment it happened… We are still devastated about this, specially my mom. I mean he was part of the family, he was with us 14 years, more than half of my life I spent with him and still miss him.
Anyways, what I wanted to tell you is that its normal that he is having heart problems, don’t worry too much. Probably he will have to take medicine, just follow exactly the instructions of your vet and he will be alright!
BTW great remix from the Christian Bale freaking out! LOL
Thank you Martha. It’s been a really long and bad day; they kept him in the doggie hospital for treatment because his heart failure is “severe and life-threatening” (the vet’s words). If the meds work, then we take it day by day. If they don’t, then the vet said that because his heart contraction rate was at 9% instead of 36%, he didn’t think he’d last through the weekend. We just weren’t expecting it because all the symptoms came on within the last week, so it was sudden. My dad has been saying all day long that he really believes that his spirit & happiness to just live in our house, with our family and get the attention he does is going to make him last for at least an extra year past what they said. I know that he’s right…
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