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| Rocky |
| December 24, 2003 |
| Rocky...3 years old...lost his quick battle with adrenal....
He had surgery about 3 1/2 weeks ago and did ok..but never recovered....he started losing weight and sleeping all of the time. Went back in and was put on meds to help with any infection and also increase his appitiete... While I was away with my mom and family he got worse. Shawn tried helping but on December 24th when I woke up to feed him and get ready to go with my dad to the funeral home to sign all of the paperwork.... Rocky couldn't eat... he was so pale and fraile. He could barely move his mouth.... Rushed to the vet. She told us that it looked like his right adrenal already grew back large and there was another mass near it. We could rush him to Tucson and see what the vets in the city would say.... We decided not to. He was suffering and after watching my mom suffer I couldn't do it again. He went peacefully in Shawns arms.... I was there next to him but couldn't hold him... I held my mom just 3 days prior as her life slipped away... I couldn't do it again... The vet opened him up afterwards to find the r. adrenal large and tumors on his liver. She took biopsies and send them out. I know what happened... The cancer spread when they opened him up...that is why he bled out right after surgery... Rocky was my bed buddy. He was our mascot and my baby. He would give kisses forever and loved to be tickled... I am so numb... |