barry581 (08-04-2016)
I had not realized Penny was only 4. Not that it is ever easy... but it just seems so much more tragic with Penny and Bruce, having reached their prime years.
barry581 (08-04-2016)
This just makes me sad.
"The dog was created specially for children, he is the God of frolic"
-Henry Ward Beecher
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barry581 (08-04-2016)
Tanya when I saw your post about Penny's passing, my heart broke. I'm still day to day with Bruce's passing, and when I saw what happened to Penny I too thought maybe it was something heart related. I choose to do a necropsy as I had to be certain it wasn't something environmental as I had to worry about Sophie. While I took some comfort knowing there was nothing I could have done, the void created by Bruce's loss is still very raw and very profound.
If it means anything, I still smile every single time I see Penny's picture, even though I feel the sadness knowing she's no longer here.
arentspowell (08-04-2016), TuMicks (08-04-2016)
It still hasn't been that long for you I didn't properly understand your grief until now either.
I am not quite at the place where I see her smiling face, still picture them bringing me her body or ,possibly worse, the seizures (they were horrible). I hope I get there one day.
My research hasn't come up with much (though I can only do so much of it and only at certain times). Chronic heart issues would generally have symptoms before getting that bad. I saw that infection could affect the lining of the heart and Penny WAS fighting a stubborn infection but it is hard to believe it got to that point (her heart) with absolutely no other sign that infection is getting "worse".
Penny was on such major lock down the odds of it being something she "ate" were minimal. she was on a short leash or in her expen. i carried her up and down the stairs to bed. Rocky was/is fine and they would have gotten into the same stuff. But who knows.
I am waiting for the vet to call me back about the results of the tests they DID take. At the time she was sure it was a genetic/breed thing (something in her lineage had bad heart/heart issues and she just didn't have any symptoms until then). but i am not reading anything online about cases like that. or linked to seizures like that.
we know when I brought her in to the e-vet she had a heart arrhythmia (it was missing beats) and that during/after the seizure her heart stopped (the one at the clinic) - not clear what came first.
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Mia died of, what the e-vet thought, was a brain tumor. I try to remember her vibrant personality and quirks. I very vividly remember, like you, everything else. I knew something was wrong 3 months before she passed but couldn't get a diagnosis. I remember the worst of it and feeling so horrible that I couldn't take her pain away. She was reduced to a shell of herself in the last few days of her life. As much as we want to remember our lost ones as they were at their best, I think it's going to take much more time to forget their last few days. I hope you can begin to see her smile again, but the pain and images take so long to turn blurry.
Scoutpout (08-07-2016)
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