News isn't great

[flick]

We've just brought a very sad pooch home from the vet.

On the plus side, it's not cancer in the bone, which is what they were expecting to find and which probably would have led to a 'shall we wake her up or not' conversation. On the minus side, it's also not something like a dislocated shoulder or sprain that can obviously be fixed.

They've taken a biopsy, which will take four or five days to get results, but the vet was using words like 'palliative'.

She was pleased to be back home, but as soon as she got through the front door she collapsed into a small whimpery heap. I carried her into the living room, where she is now lying down and being unhappy. She's got a bowl of food, a bowl of tap water, and a bowl of pond water, and I'm not sure there's much else that we can do.

Comments

[dorispossum]

Really sorry to hear this - poor girl. Love and best wishes to all of you.

[clothsprogs]

{HUGS!}

Teddy

[batwrangler]

Sorry the news isn't better.

[coth]

So sorry to hear this. Hope the news is as good as it can be when you get it.

[dalmeny]

I am so sorry. She has sounded like a lovely companion.

[history_monk]

Sympathies, hoping for good news.

[anef]

She's a very sweet dog. Best wishes to her and to you.

[oreouk]

Hugs and sympathies, that all sounds very tough.

[andrewducker]

*much hugs*

To both of you, and also to her. I hope that she can be kept comfortable while you still have her.