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Ideal_Rock
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Congestive heart failure continues to advance. a month ago the vet said there was nothing more that could be done. He's been on salix, enalapril and vetmedin for two years. he stopped eating a week and a half ago. until yesterday morning when he looked at me like he wanted to eat and then rejected everything I gave him until I gave him tiny pieces of apple with yogurt and fed by hand. he didn't eat a lot of that but enough that it was encouraging. then he ate roast pork with oven dried tomatoes, again tiny pieces by hand. If not by hand he wont even consider something. he ate enough pork that it was like a small but real meal. I thought he might be snapping out of it. During the night he had dreadful expulsions (outside, he still tells me to take him out even at 3 am) which appeared not actually to have been digested, just rotted and passed. He has lost 5 pounds in 4 days. his breathing is getting wheezier. Just now he looked like he wanted something to eat. I tried his favorites. and hard boiled egg, watermelon, a cherry tomato, Car's whole wheat crackers (he ate this yesterday)...nothing. My heart is breaking into a billion pieces. I feel I have nothing left to live for. He is being so sweet through all this too, still sleeping with me and cuddling, and just glad to be together. The last two weeks the thing I have done most is cry. I have an inflamed disc in my back and a pinched nerve but nothing can stop me from carrying him from bed to the lamppost and back. Still he does not seem to be in pain or distress, which makes the idea of euthanasia seem premature.