I did well by Sam, and by those who love(d) her, but not quite well enough

Jun 29, 2024 18:55

We'll give him credit, B first noticed something was wrong. I listened to him and reasoned with him, he called the emergency vet while I was away but it wasn't an emergency, I took her to the vet when I returned and they initially found nothing wrong, but we set up a timetable for the next steps ( Read more... )

promiscuous empathy, pet grief, poetry, ethics, nonfiction, 2024, sam

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matrixmann June 30 2024, 00:28:49 UTC
I myself never heard of the "skin tears" part before, also not from human medcine.
Althought it obviously seems to be way more well-known as phenomenon, if you just enter the term in a search engine...

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kanzeon_2040 June 30 2024, 12:56:02 UTC

I guess the medical term is skin fragility. I wish I hadn't seen it. But I guess it also provides me with my prompt for grieving her loss.

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anais_pf June 30 2024, 06:43:41 UTC
I'm so sorry for your loss.

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ahunter3 June 30 2024, 18:00:53 UTC
:( this hurts just to read

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