Thanks everyone and the poems were beautiful, especially My Forever Pet, I printed it out. I feel calmer today, yesterday I kept myself busy as I work from home a lot, so I never really sat down in the den where Frisbee would lay on his pillow by the window, I'd glance over occassionally but I felt I was ok. But last night at about 9 pm I just lost it emotionally. We were in the den watching tv and I kept looking over at the other sofa and suddenly there were just tears, non stop tears. My poor hubby I think he thought I was having a compete collapse, but I just cried for about 2 hours. My DD called from her dorm to say goodnight and I pulled myself together enough to talk to her and told her I was going to cut the call short tonight because I was really tired and just wanted to go to bed. She knew I was upset, as she and DS have been, but I didn't want to be crying while on the phone with her. So I took my tissues and myself and went up to bed exhausted and fell asleep. I guess it's what I needed to move on. I feel better today and I am going to go out and look for another puppy maybe today. I miss the companionship of a little friend at home while I work, it's too quiet and want to take care of a new little one to grow and love yet again. I know Frisbee would approve. We brought him Molly when our yorkie-poo passed from old age. Frisbee wouldn't eat for days afterwards, but when we got Molly they became instant buddies and Frisbee would curl up with this beautiful yellow lab all the time. When we lost Molly 6 months ago, Frisbee again took to not wanting to eat and wasn't as playful. So we brought home Chelsea and they got along great but unfortunately didn't have much time together, something we never could have imagined. Bichon's have a relativel long life expectancy. Now that Frisbee is gone, Chelsea is alone and she actually took his empty food bowl yesterday afternoon and brought it over to her sleeping area. Isn't that odd how dogs can truly sense things. So now it's Chelsea's turn to have a new friend brought into her life too and make our family whole again.
So thank you to everyone for such incredible warmth and caring, you helped me through a really emotional and sad time through Frisbee's illness and passing. I haven't even bothered to tell my immediate family of Frisbee's passing because they were so callous in their response to his being sick. You're all tremendously caring people, thank you again.
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Your right Camperoo, Chelsea needs a new friend. We do the same thing in that we always have two dogs together.
I think they get very lonely. When our lab Sofie passed last Sept. there was such a huge void and our Pom Zachery was quite depressed, so was I.
So two weeks later we got another Lab named Lucy and Zachery is a happy dog, he's diabetic and his blood sugar levels really are at their best when he is not stressed and upset and also when he gets exercise, and after Sofie died he didn't want to do anything.
Lucy was a blessing for Zach and for me.
I'm glad your going to get another dog, it's really a tribute to what a great dog Frisbee was and I'm sure he would approve.
Be sure to give us pics....
Camperoo, I was thinking about what happened to you, with Frisbee being sent home with a whole bunch of meds like he had a chance to make it, and the awful outcome. And then I remembered something an MD said to me when our son was dying, years ago. She said, "Sometimes, doctors are in denial, too."
Judy & Bud (Judy usually the one talking here)
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co-pilots, Rosie & Poquita
I am so sorry for your loss. I understand it was very difficult, but you did what you felt was best for Frisbee. These decisions are never easy, but please remember the good times you had with Frisbee. Those memories will last a lifetime.
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