Today has been a bit of a struggle for Franklin… he was up at 5am this morning… hopping around the bedroom and he went to get a drink of water… then he wanted out.. I gave him another dose of cough syrup as he was wheezing when he came inside. He stood by the bed because he wanted up… so I put him on the bed.. turned him on his amputated side (he doesn’t wheeze as much then) and snuggled with him till 7am… when the alarm went off.. I called into work as I had a heck of a headache…and told them I would be in later.. and I snuggled some more… woke up at 10am and so did he.. fully rested…
Tonight, he’s been kinda slow… it’s a grey and rainy day here… the day that you could spend in bed just snuggling… I wish I had.
My sweetie said tonight.. “I guess we need to make a decision”. We now have to think about how uncomfortable this sweet baby is with his breathing. I don’t think next week is going to be a good week….
Call me weird but… when that day comes.. I think I am going to take Maggie with us. She can be in the room with us and Franklin… it will cause less stress for Franklin having his partner in crime there… We don’t know what goes on in a dogs mind.. but I think Maggie should be there… perhaps she will accept his absence…
I will never forget when our cat Diesel passed away in September. He was 18 1/2 and he was there all of Maggie’s life. Well… I was at a Scout camp with my daughter that weekend and he passed in the late evening on Saturday night.. My sweetie wrapped him in a towel and put him in a box. The emergency vet clinic told him to put him in the freezer, so he did. Well.. on Monday morning, I took him out of the freezer, still in the box of course, and I put the box on the floor. Maggie stood in front of it and I opened the box for her, and pulled back the towel for her. She stuck her head in that box.. and very slowly she lifted it up and looked at me as if to say “wtf??” geesh.. I swear I could read her mind… lol
Here’s a few more happy pictures to share…
1st is a picture of the sleeping couch… with my sweetie.. and ALL of them are asleep. That is Diesel on his lap…
2nd – This is Franklin and Diesel.. sleeping buddies. I know they will hang out together at the Bridge. It is inevitable!!
bark atcha later!
