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Hi All,
I wish I could be introducing myself under better circumstances, but I found this forum out of searching for reasons why our 6 year old girl Sigma left us so suddenly.
I came home from work last Wednesday afternoon thinking it was going to be an ordinary Wednesday night. I made supper, with Siggy helping cleanup the leftover tomato and lettuce pieces (her favourite), thinking everything was great. My wife and 2 year old came home, and we ate supper, with Siggy under the table in her usual spot. We had some play time with the family, and as usual, my wife went to put our 2 year old to bed, and I took Sigma out for her evening walk, thinking everything was fine. About half way through the walk, something seemed a bit off, she wasn't leading the walk like she usually does, but I didn't think much of it. We made it home, and she found her way to her spot on our loveseat as she always does. When me and the Mrs made our way to bed, Sigma had a tough time getting up, which again struck me as odd, but she did get up and came up to the bedroom like she always does.
Well, at about 2am, she awoke whimpering which woke me and my wife. She was incredibly lethargic, and couldn't move. I knew something was up, and that I had to take her in. We couldn't get her to get up. I had to carry her to the car. I rushed her to the emergency vet, where they had to get her out of my car for me. They wasted no time in attending to her, as her gums and tongue where white. Immediately, they took her away to the back and I waited in the waiting room. When the vet came out to tell me that she had a bad form of hemangiosarcoma on the heart right next to her aorta, I knew things weren't good. Apparently, a tumor which had gone undetected (as she had no symptoms) was large, and bleeding into her pericardium. Little could be done, as the vet even believed chemo wouldn't have bought her more than a few weeks (assuming that the bleeding would stop). They kept her stable for a few hours until my wife could come down. They let us take her out for a walk, and we knew her time with us was done. She wasn't Sigma anymore. The golden who had been so full of life not 1 day earlier was reduced to a shadow of her former self.
It has been 4 days, and we are overcome with grief and dismay about how this disease could take our beloved girl away from us so quickly and when she was still young. We've added her tags to our Christmas tree so she will be remembered over the holidays, but the house is so empty, and a large hole now exists in our family.
We know we want another dog, but are feeling so saddened and empty that part of us wants to rush out to find the nearest breeder with a litter and scoop up a puppy. But we know that isn't best. Our breeder (whom we think has fantastic dogs) won't be having a litter until the summer, which seems so far away. But we are struggling to cope.
Sorry for the long winded note. I was just wondering if others have faced similar feelings on the loss of their companions.
Merry Christmas all,
Adam...
I wish I could be introducing myself under better circumstances, but I found this forum out of searching for reasons why our 6 year old girl Sigma left us so suddenly.
I came home from work last Wednesday afternoon thinking it was going to be an ordinary Wednesday night. I made supper, with Siggy helping cleanup the leftover tomato and lettuce pieces (her favourite), thinking everything was great. My wife and 2 year old came home, and we ate supper, with Siggy under the table in her usual spot. We had some play time with the family, and as usual, my wife went to put our 2 year old to bed, and I took Sigma out for her evening walk, thinking everything was fine. About half way through the walk, something seemed a bit off, she wasn't leading the walk like she usually does, but I didn't think much of it. We made it home, and she found her way to her spot on our loveseat as she always does. When me and the Mrs made our way to bed, Sigma had a tough time getting up, which again struck me as odd, but she did get up and came up to the bedroom like she always does.
Well, at about 2am, she awoke whimpering which woke me and my wife. She was incredibly lethargic, and couldn't move. I knew something was up, and that I had to take her in. We couldn't get her to get up. I had to carry her to the car. I rushed her to the emergency vet, where they had to get her out of my car for me. They wasted no time in attending to her, as her gums and tongue where white. Immediately, they took her away to the back and I waited in the waiting room. When the vet came out to tell me that she had a bad form of hemangiosarcoma on the heart right next to her aorta, I knew things weren't good. Apparently, a tumor which had gone undetected (as she had no symptoms) was large, and bleeding into her pericardium. Little could be done, as the vet even believed chemo wouldn't have bought her more than a few weeks (assuming that the bleeding would stop). They kept her stable for a few hours until my wife could come down. They let us take her out for a walk, and we knew her time with us was done. She wasn't Sigma anymore. The golden who had been so full of life not 1 day earlier was reduced to a shadow of her former self.
It has been 4 days, and we are overcome with grief and dismay about how this disease could take our beloved girl away from us so quickly and when she was still young. We've added her tags to our Christmas tree so she will be remembered over the holidays, but the house is so empty, and a large hole now exists in our family.
We know we want another dog, but are feeling so saddened and empty that part of us wants to rush out to find the nearest breeder with a litter and scoop up a puppy. But we know that isn't best. Our breeder (whom we think has fantastic dogs) won't be having a litter until the summer, which seems so far away. But we are struggling to cope.
Sorry for the long winded note. I was just wondering if others have faced similar feelings on the loss of their companions.
Merry Christmas all,
Adam...
