Jessica Headley

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since August 6, 1999

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August 6, 1999, on George and Sky:
Just last night, I had to put my yellow lab down. She had tumors which had moved her intestines over making impossible to keep anything down. We discovered them on Tuesday after taking her to the vet out of concern. He gave her some medication for the pain and talked about facing it today but when she entered the check up room, and wagged her tail and proceeded to lick my hand, he ordered us to take her home, going on to say that she wasnt in any real pain yet so to take 2 or 3 days to be with her. I stayed up with her for 2 nights. She was so brave. She was my best friend. I am beside myself now. Thursday night she started bloating up and the mass became more and more firm so we called the vet to meet us at the office. He said we were just cutting her life short of the painful end stages. I felt like we were rushing her death until he had a hard time injecting her. He said that her veins had collapsed but he got the needle in. Through it all I was singing our song to her and saying th...