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[ksmith]

Thanks to everyone for your kind words and good wishes. They're very much appreciated.

Mickey's home. I picked him up this afternoon, after talking to our regular vet. He'd been given antibiotics and IV fluids, and was livelier than he'd been in the last few days. He sat in the back seat with his head out the window, just as he had riding down.

He's resting on the living room rug now.

The only treatments at this point are palliative. There are two different types of cancer involved. Individually, they would have been difficult. Together, given their advanced state, it's just too much. If surgery were performed, Mickey would lose his bladder and most of his liver, and there's no guarantee we'd get it all.

We're probably looking at a couple of weeks. We could get lucky. There's always hope.

I will say for the record that this sweet, gentle dog did not deserve this, and someone has some serious explaining to do.

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[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Hugs. I've been through this and I know how it feels.

So, just hugs. As many as you need.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Sometimes it seems as though all life is is a gradual loss of everything and everyone you love.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know. Really I do.

But you also gain. It's not a zero-sum game, or a winding down of a finite series. It's more of a continuum.

More hugs. I'm so sorry you have to go through this.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

Again, my sympathies.

This is hard. *HUGS*

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[vampry.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear about Mickey.

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

Many, many hugs to you and Mickey.

[gandalara.livejournal.com]

Oh Kris, I'm so sorry.
Hugs for you and scritches for Mickey whereever he likes it.

Karen

[affinity8.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry to hear about Mickey. My sympathies and hopes for these next few weeks you have together.

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

I know all too well what you must be feeling. I'm glad you get some final time together though, and I hope that it's much longer than a couple of weeks. Sending all my best vibes.

Di

[lagringa.livejournal.com]

I lost a cat once to pancreatic cancer; she was five years old and had been part of a litter that had been born on my lap. I'd her BJ literally from the time she was born. It was the hardest thing in the world to let her go.

I am so very sorry.

[christymarx.livejournal.com]

[[hugs]] I'm so sorry.

[excessor.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear and while I don't know you, I can tell you that many of us know what this is like. All three of you will be in our thoughts.

…and someone has some serious explaining to do.

I've never gotten past this one, given how pissed off I get when I think about it. But maybe there's another way to think about it—it helps me. Perhaps a better way of framing this is to recognize that all relationships end. All of them. Perhaps part of the price we pay for the rich and rewarding intertwinings of our lives is that sometimes we have to see some of the endings, too.

If that sounds harsh, I'm sorry. It may not be what you want to hear and it may seem cold, but the viewpoint sorta grows on you and it offers a solace of its own. At least, it has for me.

I'm sorry you and Mickey and King have to go through this.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

It didn't sound harsh.

If you have pets, you know going in that in all likelihood you will outlive those relationships, and after you've reached a certain level of awareness, you start to see the signs and after you've been through it a few times, you know what's coming and sometimes you swear, as I have over the last few days, Never Again.

But then you wonder how you would live without that companionship, or you figure that if you tend to adopt shelter dogs, that the dogs are already there and they have to live somewhere and why not with you? You justify it, even though you know that somewhere down the road, you'll go through that particular very personal brand of Hell all over again. You keep doing it to yourself, because there's a love and acceptance there that you will never get anywhere else. You ask for it, every time.

[jemck.livejournal.com]

This really is wretched. I can only offer unbounded sympathies.

[slave2tehtink.livejournal.com]

They never live long enough as it is, so it's just cruel when they leave us even earlier. You're all in my thoughts.

[lootsfoz.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
Poor Mickey.
It is so hard when a beloved dog is sick, and you know you may be soon losing a friend. Cherish the time you have left, and get pictures.

[rarelylynne.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. I know how difficult this is.

[(Anonymous)]

::hugs::

Adrianne

[kimsheard.livejournal.com]

Time to spoil him like crazy!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Yes--the diet restrictions are off, within reason. I don't want to upset his system, but he can have things that had been off limits up to now.

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

That's what I did with my Guinevere...spoiled her like crazy and let her eat all her favorite foods: chedder cheese, polish kilbasa and chicken.

I'm so sorry about your Mickey.

((hugs))
Sue

[connerybeagle.livejournal.com]

Yeah!

BAWH!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thank you Connery.

I think you and Mickey would get along just great!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Yeah!