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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Lost my best friend
I unexpectedly had to put down my 12 year old german shepherd mix on Thursday. I got married a year ago and my dog stayed at my parents, I felt the move would be too hard on him from a suburban home with a large yard to an apartment, but I would go home to visit almost daily. I stopped home Thursday and he was laying in his pen in the garage, the garage smelled terrible (not totally uncommon as he occasionally has had accidents in his pen in there and it would need a few days to air out), he didn't get up which wasn't unusual because he has had stiffness in his back legs for a few years. I went inside and talked to my dad, my dog never made his way into the house. I said to my dad the garage smells did Bandit have an accident again, he said he wasn't sure and my mom was afraid that the smell was coming from Bandit himself. My dad and I went outside and tried to get him to move from the pen to the backyard and he wouldn't move. We opened the door and I tried to coax him out with a treat, still no luck. My dad and I pulled him out and my dad lifted him up (80lb dog), his back end looked all twisted and he couldn't stand for more than a few second. He had had an accident and had been laying it. My dad looked at me and said he thought it was time, since Bandit could no longer stand or walk. He tried to walk briefly and dragged his back end behind him. My mom said the night before all this she had heard him whining in the middle of the night but she was alone (my dad works some nights) and he was in the back yard and he eventually quieted down. I called the vet and told them what was going on and they said it was time and had me bring him in. He had a parathyroid tumor, had been diagnosed over a year ago and what was going on was related to the tumor. I just feel so terrible, like I killed him. The vet, my parents and husband said I made the right choice, and that things were only going to get worse. I just feel like I let him down, that there was something more I could have done. He just still seemed so alive too me, it all happened so fast. Just a few weeks ago we had gone on a half mile walk, I knew that was the last walk I would take him on since when we got back he couldn't get walk up the steps into the house. This was coming I know, but I am in so much pain over it. I held his head while he died and he looked right at me, it was so hard, I just feel like I should've tried harder to care for him until he passed on his own.
Re: Lost my best friend
I know how hard the decision is, but know you made the right one. A couple weeks ago, we suddenly and unexpectedly had to put down one of our pugs on his 7th birthday (he collapsed while eating dinner one night, and he was then diagnosed with an untreatable tumor on his heart that was bleeding and causing his heart not to be able to beat regularly - no prior symptoms or health issues). It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do, but I know he's not suffering any more. I'm sure your pup is running free beyond the Rainbow Bridge and is watching over you.
B/w 1/8: betas 17,345, progesterone 25.6
Me: 32 | He: 35
TTC since Sept 2011
DX: Unexplained
1st round of clomid: Jan 2013 BFP - M/C 8 weeks
surprise BFP Apr 2013 - M/C 9 weeks
IUI #1 clomid Jul 2013 = BFN
IUI #2 clomid Aug 2013 = BFN
IUI #3 injects Oct 2013 = BFN
IUI #4 injects Dec 2013 = BFN
IVF #1 March 2014 - 12R/12F, one perfect day 5 blast transferred
BFP!! Beta#1 = 431 Beta#2 = 914 Beta#3 = 2207 HB = 166!!