Ginger Thanks All Her Friends

This post is for all those who know my dog Ginger and were very supportive last year when she was poisoned by Hill's M\D Diet Food.

I know, I know she's not a dog and even though she acts like one following me around she very well could be.

This is to thank all of Ginger's and my friends for their kindness in our troubled time last year. This is a update to how she is currently doing. Ginger and I are humbled by all the kindness we received last year in those unknown moments when I wasn't sure she would come home.

Once again Ginger and I are in that very same predicament. So with that said let me leave you with what I have posted on three sites I regularly visit.

For all Ginger's and my friends...

As I sit here barely able to write this and at a loss for words, I wanted to thank all of you for your support and comfort last year when Ginger was poisoned by Hill's MD Dry Cat food.

Over the past week or so Ginger has not been eating very much and with my daughter visiting for my birthday I waited until she went home Saturday before calling the Vet.

Up until last week around Wednesday I noticed that she was barely eating. At the time I thought that perhaps she just had a cold or something or just wasn't feeling good.

By Friday when I got home from work I noticed that she had stopped eating all together and knew I had to get her into the Vet to find out what the problem was. My daughter wanted me to take her in Saturday morning, but since her plane back home was a 2:30 pm flight I didn't want to have her miss the plane.

This morning I called my Vet and told her I thought that maybe Ginger had eaten contaminated food again, she was not eating or having a bowel movement since Wednesday and she said I should get her in so the Doctor could look at her. I took the rest of the day off, headed home, put Ginger in her carrier and headed to the Vet's office.

Once there the Doctor looked at her and the assistant took her temperature. She was unable to get a accurate one as the thermometer could barely be inserted.

They weighed her and she was down to 21 LB's since her physical in December when she weighed 25 LB's. They took her in the back to xray her to see if see may be constipated or if there could be any other problems.

When she came back in she had stopped doing the xray's because after they had done the chest and heart area it showed a Heart problem. Her chest was full of liquid and her heart was floating making it hard for her to breathe. She said I had to see a Specialist and called the Hospital so they would be ready to see her the minute I got there.

She gave Ginger a shot to help her breathe, I paid the bill and headed over to the hospital.

On arriving at the hospital they took her immediately to the back and I waited for a Doctor who was interning to become a Specialist while the Doctor and those assisting her looked at Ginger and the xray's I brought over.

The Doctor whom I saw the first time said Ginger had a Heart Condition and was in very bad shape. They had extracted about 100 Mililiters {I think that's the right word} and around 15ML was a tablespoon and they had done around 8 tablespoons so far. She then went back to assist those working on Ginger.

When she returned she told me that Ginger did have Heart Disease and they would have to get a US-Echocardiogram to see what was going on with her heart. They had her in a oxygen tent and I was informed of what they needed to do.

I was even ask if it was okay to resuscitate if she went under and I said yes. I was told that she would call me later to let me know what the current status was.

Well I just got off the phone with her and she said Ginger had DCM and it was congenital more than likely. She informed me that she might not make it out of the hospital and if she did Ginger might only last a month or two.

All her heart walls were thin and she had trouble pumping blood through her system because of this. I don't know if she will be home or not and if it looks like they are unable to get her home or if it appears that there is nothing they can really do for her I told them to put her down.

I paid the over two hundred dollars at my Vet's and two thousand dollars which was a little over the two thirds of her hospital cost which could exceed $2300 dollars.

I would give all I have if she would come home and be healthy, however at this time I don't think I'll be seeing her again.

To all of you who were very supportive last year I want to thank you as your support meant so much too me.

I can't go on anymore, but I wanted you all to know that Ginger and I thank you from the bottom of are hearts.

God Bless.

I know that like me many of you have had pets at one time or another in you life time. I also know or believe that you may have lost a pet through illness or other circumstances and like you I feel sure some on you may have even had to had them put down. Or in a nicer way to say it put to sleep.

I don't know if that will happen in my case as one can see from reading the above post. The odds are against her and if she does somehow manage to make it home she may not have a long time, a month or two is what the Doctor said.

I would do anything if possible to have her home and on medication for her heart condition, however the facts as I know them now say this will not happen. So I want you all to know that Ginger and I thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for all your prayers and kindness you have shown toward us last year.

Love your pets as much as you love your children if you have any. We do not know what events may occur over the time we have and if you fail to show them the love they deserve you may one day find that it is too late to.

With that I end this post and once again Ginger and I thank you for all that you have given us.

God Bless you all.