So sad right now....

[Brandi]

I tried posting on this thread last night but I started crying. Then i couldn't spell (not that I am a good speller in the first place).
I am one of those people who has saved my animals and had to spend a bit of money doing it. My first and oldest living to this date had a thyroid condition at 14 years. It cost us over $1,000.00 and 16 hours driving her to and from. 1 lost muffler on the freeway while in transet. (That was scary for everyone in the car. The noise was awful!
Babies had to stay in the hospitol for a week. we could not visit her at all cause she was radioactive.
We did not hesitate to get this treatment for her even though we had no idea how many more years or months she had left. But she was a member of our family and that is all we saw.
It was funny when we got her home she went right to her scratch pad, gave a good scratching, then to her food dish, said hi to her brother and sister then went to her spot in front of the fireplace and slept for a long time. She was so happy to be home. She also lived for another 5 years till her kidney's started getting old and she started having complications. They said I could do all this stuff for her. But when I asked how long it would give her ? They said a month or so. And a lot of the time she would be going back and forth to the vet getting kidney flushes etc.. At that point we knew we would just be kepping her around for us. She looked so beutiful when she passed. Like a kitten again. Her coat was not old looking anymore and she was not uncompfortable or in pain anymore (she had really bad arthritis too). We have a wonderful painting of her we got from an artist in New orleans that hangs on our wall. I guess my point is you know when it is time. You feel it in your heart. And she told us she was ready.
We had her for 18 years and she had such a good life. I don't know if my story helps or hurts here. But when you know other people have gone through it it seems to help me.
But you know if you are doing the right thing and it sounds like there is a lot o love in your home for her and alot of support. Good luck we are thinking healing thoughts as well.