Update on Blue Christmas

[lingster1]

On our Tuesday re-check, the vet said Annie could start the slide into real pain any day now. She had lost so much weight that she was literally a skeleton who spent all day sleeping. Not like the old Annie at all. He didn’t think she’d make it over Christmas. I didn’t want her last moments to be spent with an unknown emergency vet - since the

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[samhenderson]

I'm so sorry, Shelia. You made the right choice. I'll miss Annie.

[lingster1]

Thanks, Sam. I know it was the right thing to do, but this morning I felt like an assassin taking her out to the vet.

[norilana]

Oh, Sheila, I am so sorry! Peace to the dear Annie, and to you and the family, this Christmas.

Gentle peace.

[lingster1]

Thank you for replying, Vera, when you have so much on your own plate. It means a lot to me.

[deborahjross]

It's always so hard, even when all reason says it is the best or only choice. Breathing our last in the arms of someone we love is not a bad way to go.

[lingster1]

I always promised her I'd be with her at the end and I wouldn't let her suffer, and maybe that's what kept her so peaceful. Dogs understand a lot more of what we say than the "experts" know. They've shared their lives with us for so many thousands of years that they know us very well -- and vice versa, if we only try.

[moon_happy]

I'm sorry. I'm glad you could be with her.

[lingster1]

Thank you! Now tomorrow, Jack and I will go to my oldest daughter's house for a party, and he will get to spend time with her two friendly labs. That should pick his spirits up a bit.