Goodbye Sweet Girl...

Last Friday was a difficult day for the family. We had to say good bye to the sweetest dog I have ever known. Ginger had been fighting Cushings Disease which was  causing her body to produce too much cortisol and therefore making her liver over work and grow too big. If this had been left untreated, it would have quickly killed her. But it was detected early and she was on medicines to keep it that way.

However on Monday of last week her breathing became labored and got worse as the week progressed. On Friday morning mom called the vet to get an appointment. She was very upset when she called me but I wasn't aware of how bad it had gotten. I went with her to the vet and we were both beyond shocked to discovered her lungs were almost completely filled with cancer. Come to find out the cortisol was keeping the cancer at bay but once it was being managed by the meds, the cancer rapidly spread and the doctor didn't feel as though there was anything we could do at that point to help her. She told us a biopsy of the lungs would be extremely tough on her alone.

We never want a dog to suffer and that is all Ginger would have done. So we made the extremely hard decision to say good bye to her. She would have been 12 next month. As I held her in my arms saying goodbye, I couldn't help but relive the moment we first saw her in that cage in Louisville and how we all fell in love immediately with that sweet face. She was the perfect fit for the family and for mom and will never be forgotten. In my mind she will always be Ginger Lee even though her official name is Precious Ginger.

We love you sweet girl.