Spending time with the dog as much as possible these days now that she's been diagnosed with cancer. She's still happy and pain free so far, but I want to get every moment in.
@encryptr It is sad, but there's no telling how long we have left, so it might be years of me spoiling her rotten.
@SuzanEraslan I could think of a lot worse thing so to do.
@encryptr Exactly.
@SuzanEraslan oh, no! I didn't know this! that's terrible! poor Lucia! I'm so sad! 🐶
@allianora Oh, yeah, I just found out on Monday night. The doc was basically giving me the option of surgery instead of demanding it, and after I looked up what was wrong with her (spindle cell sarcoma), I realized why-- they have to take huge margins when removing the tumor and the recurrence rate is really high even with surgery, plus most older dogs die of something unrelated, anyway, so we're just going to bear it out.
@SuzanEraslan I'm so sorry.
@allianora Thank you. I always knew how I would approach this kind of thing (letting her enjoy the time left with a high quality of life rather than doing extensive surgery and chemo) but I didn't expect to have to make that decision this week or anything.
@SuzanEraslan Sympathy; I'm glad you have this time together.
@emdeesee Same-- and it might be years! I'm just making sure that if it's not, that we have as much time together as we can.
@SuzanEraslan That's tough I know. I lost my dog back in January. I hope you both can enjoy her remaining time.
@spridlewv Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. Losing a pet is so hard.
@SuzanEraslan So sorry. . .been there.
@privacymatters Yeah, I've never been there when it was *my* dog, but family dogs, yes... and it's the worst.
@SuzanEraslan :( still hurts when think of wife's dog
@SuzanEraslan We went through this with @thurloat 's puppy a few years ago. Photographs. Lots of photographs. They'll mean the world later. I'm so sorry you're having to deal with that.
@JessSloan @thurloat Yeah, she's having to model for me all the time. She's probably wondering why there's a shiny box in her face all the time.
@SuzanEraslan your doggie has a very good human to treat her so well!
@SuzanEraslan Is she just hanging out on top of your legs there? :joy:
@SuzanEraslan that's so sad. I'm so sorry to hear that. Enjoy every moment.