ANOTHER LINCOLN STORY
Our family has a most beloved family member with LOTS of fur, 4 paws, a cold nose, a most loving dispostion but also a nack for giving us lots of Lincoln stories. Lincoln is now 11 1/2. We've had Lincoln longer than Molly!!!! Our girls don't know life without Lincoln. Last Thursday Lin
coln became quit sick. He has been sick before but by Friday night we realized that this was different and he was going to need a visit to the vet. So, on my weekend off (finally) Chris and I headed over to the vet college to have him checked out. Well, Lincoln had to be admitted to ICU because he was so sick. They quoted us a price of $600 for 2 nights in ICU, meds, an x-ray, and ultrasound. The vet called on Sunday morning and told us he wasn't better. Chris and I finally had to the conversation about when is enough for a almost 12 year old dog. We decided that we wouldn't be able to pay more than the estimate. Monday morning Lincoln still wasn't better and they wanted to keep him and our bill was now way over the estimate. We told them we couldn't pay anymore than the $600 and if they couldn't help him because of that we were going to have to bring him home. Get this - The vet asked us if we were on welfare!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!! Because we couldn't pay more than that they assumed we were on welfare. I think if we had let them keep going with tests etc... we would be on welfare. They came back and graciously kept him another day and didn't charge us more than the original quote. Chris and I were emotional wrecks all weekend. This was our dog that we loved dearly, and we were made to feel so bad for not being able to put out this endless supply of money. On Sunday when we weren't sure what was going to happen to the dog we took the girls up to see him after church. They did well but were very emotional. Lincoln looked very pitiful and still was sick but seemed to enjoy having us there. The vet tech. said he whined a lot after we left.
On Tuesday morning Chris went up to the vets - we were not sure what the outcome was going to be. After the girls left for school Chris finally came home WITH Lincoln. He looked so much better and was even hungary. We got to feed him his first meal since last Wed. 1/4 cup of boiled white rice and 1/4 cup of cottage cheese! After he ate it he looked at us like "come on, where is the rest." If you know any of Lincolns other stories involving food, you know he wouldn't be satisfied with that. Lincoln had pancreatitis and for now is doing well. We were unable to find out what was causing it but he is home and doing really well. Not totally out of the woods because if it should reoccur he'll probably have to be put down. When the girls came home from school they were so surprised and excited. They have made over him and spoiled him. I think he will glad when Sun. comes when we can introduce some of his own food back in his rice and cottage cheese diet. That will be the real test. So for now we have pup back and we will enjoy every day!
For those of you who have lost a pet my heart goes out to you - your house is never the same.
Our family has a most beloved family member with LOTS of fur, 4 paws, a cold nose, a most loving dispostion but also a nack for giving us lots of Lincoln stories. Lincoln is now 11 1/2. We've had Lincoln longer than Molly!!!! Our girls don't know life without Lincoln. Last Thursday Lin
coln became quit sick. He has been sick before but by Friday night we realized that this was different and he was going to need a visit to the vet. So, on my weekend off (finally) Chris and I headed over to the vet college to have him checked out. Well, Lincoln had to be admitted to ICU because he was so sick. They quoted us a price of $600 for 2 nights in ICU, meds, an x-ray, and ultrasound. The vet called on Sunday morning and told us he wasn't better. Chris and I finally had to the conversation about when is enough for a almost 12 year old dog. We decided that we wouldn't be able to pay more than the estimate. Monday morning Lincoln still wasn't better and they wanted to keep him and our bill was now way over the estimate. We told them we couldn't pay anymore than the $600 and if they couldn't help him because of that we were going to have to bring him home. Get this - The vet asked us if we were on welfare!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!! Because we couldn't pay more than that they assumed we were on welfare. I think if we had let them keep going with tests etc... we would be on welfare. They came back and graciously kept him another day and didn't charge us more than the original quote. Chris and I were emotional wrecks all weekend. This was our dog that we loved dearly, and we were made to feel so bad for not being able to put out this endless supply of money. On Sunday when we weren't sure what was going to happen to the dog we took the girls up to see him after church. They did well but were very emotional. Lincoln looked very pitiful and still was sick but seemed to enjoy having us there. The vet tech. said he whined a lot after we left. On Tuesday morning Chris went up to the vets - we were not sure what the outcome was going to be. After the girls left for school Chris finally came home WITH Lincoln. He looked so much better and was even hungary. We got to feed him his first meal since last Wed. 1/4 cup of boiled white rice and 1/4 cup of cottage cheese! After he ate it he looked at us like "come on, where is the rest." If you know any of Lincolns other stories involving food, you know he wouldn't be satisfied with that. Lincoln had pancreatitis and for now is doing well. We were unable to find out what was causing it but he is home and doing really well. Not totally out of the woods because if it should reoccur he'll probably have to be put down. When the girls came home from school they were so surprised and excited. They have made over him and spoiled him. I think he will glad when Sun. comes when we can introduce some of his own food back in his rice and cottage cheese diet. That will be the real test. So for now we have pup back and we will enjoy every day!
For those of you who have lost a pet my heart goes out to you - your house is never the same.
posted by Michele at 8:46 PM
1 Comments:
oh man, that was so sad. i was expecting the worst...that you would have to put him down. great ending.
we sort of lost our dog last sunday. we found a different home for him, on a farm with 7 kids who love him. our house was way to small and i couldn't find time to get out and give slugger the exersize he needs. he's a black lab. but we're glad that the Lord has blessed him with probably an even better home with lots of space to run. what's better than a farm with ponds and gophers to chase. he's livin the life.
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