Jack Brickman
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Had to put Loki down today. He wasn't responding to his treatment and I was facing bringing him in to the vet at minimum once per day to drain his bladder via catheter, a painful procedure not lessened by the fact that having his bladder fill up and being unable to urinate was painful in itself. After the vet told me my options, I sat there along with him in the room for about twenty minutes trying to figure out what to do. Watching him tremble a bit with each exhale made my decision for me. He was in obvious pain and that pain wasn't going away. It would probably only get worse.
Sometimes in life there are no good choices. I made a horribly tough one today, but it needed to be made. I just wish I had gotten a bit more time with him. Really rough going from diagnosis to death in less than two weeks. Didn't even know he was sick at the beginning of the month.
Sometimes in life there are no good choices. I made a horribly tough one today, but it needed to be made. I just wish I had gotten a bit more time with him. Really rough going from diagnosis to death in less than two weeks. Didn't even know he was sick at the beginning of the month.