duncan41 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I am so sorry for your loss. Run free with the wind, Renie. Pain free forever. Quote Linda, Mom to Fuzz, Barkley, and the felines Miss Kitty, Simon and Joseph.Waiting at The Bridge: Alex, Josh, Harley, Nikki, Beemer, Anna, Frank, Rachel, my heart & soul, Suze and the best boy ever, Dalton.<p> ....for all those hounds that are sick, hurt, lost or waiting for their forever homes. SENIORS ROCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HJsM Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 So very sorry.... Quote ATASCOSITA DIAZ - MY WONDER DOG!Missing our Raisin: 9/9/94 - 7/20/08, our Super Bea: 2003 - 12/16/09, our Howie: 9/17/97 - 4/9/11, our Bull: 8/7/00 - 1/17/13, our Wyatt Earp: 11/22/06 - 12/16/15, and our Cyclone 8/26/05 - 9/12/16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forevermybabies Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 My beautiful Renie. My 'young' dog at only ten years old, has left us - so unexpectedly. I'm still in shock. First, I'd like to give you all a little background. It's perhaps not the best place for it, here in Remembrance, but my original thread in H&M was locked before I felt able to update it. So, I'm sorry, this will be long. Renie had a few issues lately, after being such a healthy girl for most of her life. She had three UTIs this year, a swollen toe, a sore neck, and an unexplained limp, so slight that it was put down to arthritis, and it did improve on Metacam. The week before Christmas, I asked for her to be x-rayed, because she was losing muscle over the shoulder, but nothing showed up. Our vet said her bones looked remarkably clean for a ten-year-old, but that it looked like she had two compressed discs, so after a trial with Previcox, which didn't help, she was put on steroids, which helped her a lot ... at first. But she began to get worse, and to squeak with pain. I took her back, and the vet gave her Vetergesic, which helped a lot. At first. But she continued to go downhill, and the squeaks got more frequent,and she looked just so miserable. And still, they were saying 'it's the discs' which I KNOW are enormously painful, so we carried on, upping the steroids, calling in for advice, managing her as best we could. Meanwhile, she's not eating much, and my beautiful, slender girl is melting away in front of my eyes. At this point I was so scared for her, because this reminded me so much of Susan (who we lost to undiagnosed kidney cancer). On Tuesday morning this week, she took a huge turn for the worse. On attempting to get up from her bed, she let out the most gut-wrenching series of screams I've ever heard from a greyhound. I rang the vet, and asked for an emergency call-out, but they were on skeleton staff and couldn't come out till the afternoon. I figured the disc problem had got dramatically worse, and maybe one or both had ruptured, so I requested a referral at a specialist centre, and they got us in as an emergency that day. The neurologist was not encouraging. She could clearly see that Renie was in tremendous pain, so she cut short her exam to give her a shot of methadone, and told us that in her opinion, it was one of four things. 1) Osteosarcoma 2) Nerve sheath tumour 3) CNS fluid infection, or 4) The discs I did NOT like the order in which she gave those options. We left her there overnight for x-rays, MRI, spinal tap. and possibly another type of scan. She was going to do the chest films first on the understanding that she would stop there if she saw tumours. I got very nervous at that point. So, we got the call at about ten the next day, and it was the worst possible news. No, not osteosarcoma, but just as deadly. My poor girl had a large tumour in the base of her neck, and it had begun to grow upward, infiltrating her spine, and was wrapped around the spinal cord so that it was being squeezed. There was a real 'pinch' in it, the sheath could not be seen. And it was clear on the MRI that it was compromising the vertebra, something NOT visible on x-ray. No wonder she was in such pain. It was inoperable, and we let her go. She was already not our Renie. Even on methadone, she was squeaking, and so glazed ... She was just the best dog. She was loving and affectionate, and would go to anyone who had a hand free, in the hope of strokes and scritches - she was a PAT therapy dog, visiting severely disabled adults, and Alzheimers victims and bringing them a little joy. She was a floozy. She was the gentlest and most loving dog. She was Jack's protector - whether he liked it or not! She was my calendar girl, my sweetheart, my companion. And she will be sorely missed. Pain-free now. Lovely Irene: 13th December 1998 - 30th December 2008. Rest in peace, sweetie. Oh, wow. What a very sad story. You did the right thing to let her be free of all that pain. I'm so sorry for your loss. Quote Tami, Nikki & Gypsy (non-greyhounds, but still pretty good dogs.) Deeply missing Sunscreen Man, Angel (Back on the Job), Switzler Festus and Joe (Indio Starr) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn8 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 I am just seeing this now and wish to add my condolences for the loss of your beautiful girl. I will always remember her as the other grey (like Bug) with a bendy nose. Jenn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zoolaine Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Just read this - I'm so sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LovesDoggies Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 I'm so sorry for your loss. She was a sweet and beautiful girl. What you wrote about her was really beautiful. May she run pain-free now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mbarson Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 I have lost two Gretys in the last two years so I have a good idea how you must be feeling. Please accept my condolences as I sit her with tears falling down my cheeks. Run Reanie, chase all those rabbits and squirrels, you have no pain now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Winterwish Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 (edited) Judy I'm so,so sorry and send my deepest condolences to you. Such a sweetheart,lovely Renie shelling her peas out of the peapods,so sweet and wonderful. Fly free lovely Renie ~ Edited January 19, 2009 by Winterwish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfish Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 Thank you so much for all you lovely replies. Yes, she was beautiful, sweet, and wonderful, and so gentle too. I've been crying again today, it's whenever something reminds me of her or something she used to do. Yesterday it was Jack pushing his nose into her blanket to sleep. He misses her, bless him. It's a comfort to come in here and see that so many other people will miss her too. Thank you. Quote The plural of anecdote is not dataBrambleberry Greyhounds My Etsy Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest twofinegreys Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 OMG, I'm so sorry Judy...I just saw this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vinnie Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 We are adding our heartfelt sympathies as well. The choice is never easy nor is knowing you did the right thing - especially when all you really want is your sweet baby back again. It's 3+ years later and we still hurt and cry when we find something of Vinnie's - so we definitely understand the emotions of when you found Renie's harness. Run free sweet Renie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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