Tag: SophieGoldendoodle

goodbye sweet girl

Sophie's last day Sept 12, 2016
Sophie’s last day Sept 12, 2016

Said goodbye to this sweet girl yesterday.
The lymphoma overpowered the prednisone and her restricted breathing was making her miserable. She looked to us with those always bright eyes for some relief, but we couldn’t do anything more. She is finally at peace but has left an incredible hole in our lives. You will be missed, #SophieGoldenDoodle.

 

…later

I went to work today and was able to compartmentalize my feelings and trudge through the distraction of work. A few people spoke to me about it, one had lost their dog Friday, I was able to keep it together and talk about how special she was, and is resting now. I even had a pre dialogue in the car ride home as I got close, of my typical greetings to her upon opening the door. “Where’s my girl at?! Where’s my watch dog?! Who’s the pretty girl?!where’s she at..?! There she is!! There’s that prettiest girl in the whole wide world!”
But as I opened the lock I noticed my hand shaking, and when she was not on the other side of the door, the flood hit hard. Tracy approached having experienced the same earlier when she got home from errands and we embraced in wet sobs. Later, I see these comments- Thank you all for the overwhelming support. I know many of you speak from experience -two and four legged loved ones. Thank you.

 

found a nice example of Sophie’s greeting captured on SophieCam
This was from January 2016. She had hurt her bad foot and was resting it. Watching now, I do feel bad about leaving her at the end, but I was just changing clothes so we could go on a walk…

Sophie troubles…

Sophie troubles,
Difficulty breathing increased over the last few weeks and led to finding inflamed lungs last Friday, per x-ray and has them looking at lymphoma or fungal – both have pretty harsh treatments if that is even possible. They gave her a furosemide/diuretic shot to remove fluid from lungs (though assured otherwise, I still suspect this for triggering the next event). After returning from the vet, she became suddenly blind – partially, but severe enough she walked/fell into our …pool which is how we realized it. She is only 9. Immediately took her to ER where she spent Friday night. Further x-rays, lung aspiration (small needle to grab cells, but no confirming results either way) and sat in oxygen tent for 12 hrs…
Been home since Saturday, able to rest but obviously freaked out by the blindness (it seems to get better or worse throughout the day – partial cloudiness – they think it is a reaction to whatever else is going on in her) and continues to struggle breathing. Ultrasound today to try to find a way to confirm diagnosis and prognosis either way on the lungs.

Unpleasant story, I know…
Thanks for listening
Rick

Sophie after lung aspiration
Sophie after lung aspiration
Sophie after lung aspiration
Sophie after lung aspiration
Sophie exhausted
Sophie exhausted

sophie not doing well

From msg to folks, 7/23 3:27

(just noticed the anagram)

Sophie not doing well. She was at ER last night. Earlier in the day I Got her home from vet yesterday about heavy breathing. I went to take her out back to pee and She was apparently blind all of a sudden and walked/fell into the pool.
Never done that.
Got her out and she could not see and was very disoriented. May have had a seizure? Who knows. Def blind so we took her to ER for that and her difficulty breathing. The vet earlier had taken X-rays and said her lungs were bright which could be fungus but maybe lymphoma and sent them to radiologist for review. The ER vet also took X-rays last night and wanted to aspirate her lungs to get a sample for confirmation that it wasn’t fungus. She stayed overnight for that and was in oxygen tent. He did not see evidence of fungus so presumes cancer and recommends an ultrasound to locate primary source.
She is home now but struggling to breath yet.
Big shaved patch where they tried to get fluid out of her lung area to test

 

The Horror

from the archives™

I was working late on a website last night and about 1am I took Sophie out to pee before bed. She went right away but shifted strangely while she was peeing – at the time I thought she was too close to the fence and just backing up, so dismissed it.

She came in, I got her bedtime treat and we headed to bed in the dark. Gave her the treat and got ready for bed myself.

By the time I was ready she was already in her bed. I petted her a bit and got in bed. Something smelled strange though. Couldn’t quite place it – kinda like stinkweed. Though maybe it was her breath after cleaning her bum..? But I was exhausted and my eyes were burning so I tried to go to sleep. Soon I hear a neighbors car alarm, ugh… what is this 1980? But there was that smell again. She must have stepped in something.

I got up and put a flashlight on her – globs of wet shit on her bed, and at least one foot clumped with it. Lovely. And the smell was overpowering now. She looked at me like she knew something was wrong and just sat still. Grabbed a trash can and toilet paper and picked up the poo and wiped her foot off – it was squished between her toes… she sat still and let me work.

OMG the smell was sickening. I searched the rest of the house and found the trail from the backdoor all the way to the bedroom, every 3 feet or so, a splat to wipe up. Rug, wood floor, tile, carpet, everything.

Now it’s bath time. Got her in the tub with a few inches of warm water and wiggled her offending foot around to shake off the poo in the water. It did and now it is a tub of poo soup.

The smell continues. A couple of tub empties and rinses later and she seems clean enough. Another inspection of the trail with a few more clean up spots and we are off to bed again – though I stuck her bed and the trash can in the garage – we’ll need new items there. I can still smell it…