Had a Scare Today... - UPDATE: RIP Hannah Girl

[Jessika]

I am so very sorry to hear about Hannah, she and your family will be in my prayers for her to have what is left for her a pain free and happy life. I totally get where your hubby is coming from, when we loose our furkids as adults it is very hard, but there is something different when it is your childhood dog, its like the last part of your childhood that was left remaining is disappearing and a part of you with it, they are your best friends in the whole world, nothing compares to them. My heart goes out to him, Im sure many of us know what this is like.

Thank you so much, it means a lot to us

[Jessika]

Hannah isn't doing so good... she had last weekend what my friend Mark and I assumed to be

OK I was beginning to type this when it just happened again. She's had two seizures tonight in the span of an hour and I'm really afraid she isn't going to make it through the night. I am not certain but I do know if her condition does not get better by tomorrow, they will be taking her to the vet to... be... humanely euthanized. They are taking her to the vet tomorrow though regardless, but I fear the worst.

HJ doesn't know; he's away at band practice right now and I want to call him and tell him to come home so badly because I know if she passes away and he isn't here and we didn't tell him he will be so upset, but I know his dad said he would rather him not be here because he knows how upset he will be...

Plus the tumor has grown considerably... you can see it when she lays on her side... her entire abdomen is swollen...

Please keep her in your prayers, you guys... just pray that she passes peacefully.

I do have a question, though, to ease my mother in law, when it happens, she starts yelping and howling and obviously twitching uncontrollably. Is she in any pain, or is she just freaking out because she doesn't know what's going on? As SOON As we get there and start talking to her it seems she calms down immediately. So she isn't yelping because she is in pain, correct, just because she is scared?

Thank you guys so much... I'm so afraid for tomorrow... heh it's even mine and my father-in-law's birthdays... I don't want this as a birthday present... I don't want to see my family torn up...

[Karen]

Oh dear, it doesn't sound good. You'll all be in our prayers. Poor Hannah. Have your mom-in-law give her a kiss for me, okay?

[Freedom]

Prayers for all of you.

[Ginger's Mom]

I am so sorry. Prayers going out for Hannah. She may only be yelping because she is scared, I know when my first dog got hiccups she would growl (it made me laugh ).

[Jessika]

Thank you so much everyone, it seems to be working... I went up to check on her and she tried standing! Grant it, the floors are slippery so she had a lot of trouble, but she did try to stand for a while... I believe she's given up though and has been laying for the last hour, but her breathing isn't as labored anymore and she seems to be calming down.

[Jessika]

They made the difficult decision to put her down this morning.

I woke up and checked on her on my way to school about 6:30 this morning and she was awake, alert and conscious; she wagged her tail and raised her head but was lying in a pool of her urine and feces. I called HJ between classes while they were on their way tot he vet and apparently she'd lost control of her right eye.

Thanks everyone for the thoughts; it's certainly an appropriate day as it's cloudy and rainy all day.

The family is taking it pretty hard.

She's in a much better place now, tumor and cancer free.