Lilly

Thank you for posting that Candy. I know Logan has to be exhausted at this point and will be appreciative that you have passed on this update for her via Betty. The candle brought tears to my eyes. Prayers are still strong for Lilly and for Logan and the whole family as well.

I'm just now seeing this ... I am so sorry to hear about Lilly :( Please keep us updated. I'll be keeping her in my thoughts.

Logan made this update earlier this morning at Golden Guardian...

We have made it through the night. Scott, Honey, Lilly and I spent the night together, on the floor, in our den.

As Dr. R explained to Scott and me, yesterday, after pumping her body full of fluids (3 IV bags, just yesterday), he was in hopes that it would kick start Lilly's kidneys so that they would start doing their "job" again, of taking the waste out of the bloodstream. When bloodwork was done around 6 pm last night, there was no improvement in that important BUN (sp?). He had told us that if we couldn't get that BUN down, we would have to let her go. Even though peeing is important and helps her rid her of some of that excess fluid, it isn't an indication that all is well. She did pee twice before settling down for the night. We are glad he allowed us to bring her home and give her another shot at an improving BUN this morning. If it were to be better, I don't know what happens. Dr. R told Scott that if we got a miracle and she improved, she will never be 100% again.

The string in her colon and the subsequent bleeding don't have a direct relationship to what is going on with the kidneys, but her weakened and stressed condition has probably caused us to now know that she had a kidney problem. Until yesterday, the BUN and Creatine (sp?) have been normal.

We will be taking her back around 8:30 this morning. I will let Betty know, by phone, what is going on.

Thank you all for your prayers and good thoughts. While you're praying, please remember Dr. Robinson and his staff, those 3 wonderful dogs (Blue, Jake and Oreo) who provided the blood for Lilly's transfusion yesterday, and our 3 children (Helen, Elizabeth and Andrew), who are all devastated, and precious Honey, who will not know what to do without her sidekick, Lilly, who has always been there with her.

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As I get more information I will try to keep everyone here updated also so you can all be in prayer. I strongly believe in the miracle of prayer and it really sounds like Logan and her family need it also in addition to our sweet Lilly.

Candy

Prayers for Lilly, Logan and all the family.

Oh my goodness :( I'll definetly be keeping everyone in my thoughts, Lilly especially.

I am just now reading through this thread for the first time. :(

Hugs and prayers to you, Logan, and your family! :(
Kim

From: http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=122915

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Originally Posted by Logan

Thank you, my friends, for your prayers and concern in the past weeks, while Lilly has been so ill. Lilly has been my faithful companion for 7 1/2 years. We (my daughter, Honey, and I met her the very day she was born). She was "my" dog, but she loved everyone.

Yesterday morning, I took Lilly in and the complete blood panel was done, immediately, as she has continued to be sick, even with continued fluids, every day. Lilly was in kidney failure. Her BUN (which is the measurement they use for kidney function) had been normal, all along, through the last couple of weeks, but over the weekend, her kidneys failed. Lilly, Scott, Helen and I spent the day at the vet's office with her, yesterday, while she got 3 liters of fluid, through IV, to try and kickstart her kidneys. She also received a blood transfusion. Our vet and one of his technicians brought their big dogs in to provide blood for Lilly to try and boost her red cell count. He allowed us to bring her home, last night, in hopes for a miracle that somehow she would rebound, or maybe so that we could have some time, away from there, with her. There was no miracle this time.

That darling, gentle girl, left this world, this morning, surrounded by people who loved her. Her bloodwork was worse, this morning, than it was last night. We all fought for her life, but none of us fought any harder than that precious girl, who lifted her head and kissed me in the wee hours of the morning, Honey, our 8 year old "half sister" of Lilly, and my husband, Scott, surrounded her. And once again when Helen, my 16 year old daughter, walked into the room this morning. Dear Helen even got a tail wag from her.

She was on her soft blanket, on the floor behind the reception desk in Dr. Robinson's office, where she had stayed for so many days the past 3 weeks. It was a quiet morning there, with only one other appointment, earlier, so there was no reason to move her. We just all knelt beside her, laid our hands on her, and Dr. Robinson administered the meds that put her to sleep and relieved her of any pain she might have had.

Thank you so much, my dear friends, for your continued support of Lilly, Dr. Robinson and our family. I don't think there is a medical staff in this world, human or veterinary, who would have done more to save a dog than this man and his staff did.

I will be back, but need some time with my family and our remaining pets, so that we can absorb yet another loss and get back to a better place, emotionally. 4 losses in 14 months has taken its toll on all of us. :(

Love,
Logan, Honey, Mack, Butter, Roger and Milly

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