[Gpdd] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Rainbow Bridge

[truejedi at bellsouth.net]

I knew there would be a day I would have to make this announcement...I just didn't know it would be this soon and be this hard.  Two days ago I was announcing my baby girls two year birthday now I'm having to say goodbye to her.  A few weeks ago I wrote about her absessed tooth.  After doing X-rays and tests on her and filing her teeth down the Dr. put her on antibiotics and she seemed to be doing better.  She quit eating again though so I called the Dr.  He told me to start her back on the antibiotics and let him know on Wednesday (today) how she is doing.  Sunday night I could tell she was suffering.  Monday I took her back to the Dr. to have her put to sleep.  She hadn't eaten in days and was starving to death.  He told me he couldn't understand why we would put her to sleep because she was only 2 years old.  He said what she had was fixable...he told me I could have 5-6 more years with her.  He gave us hope and talked us out of putting her to sleep.  He told us to make an appointment with the specialist and hour away from where we live.  The soonest they would take us was today at 11:15.  He gave us some syringes and told us to feed her baby food.  I had been doing this since Monday and she showed no signs of improvement at all.  She was only getting worse.  She would just lay there and couldn't even pick up her head.  I put her in the playpen with Muinea and she wouldn't move at all.  Last night when I went to feed Motah she still had baby food from a few hours back dried up in her mouth.  It was dryed up and stuck in there.  I had to give her water through the syringe to break it up and get it out.  Then when I fed her again she threw up...she couldn't even hold water down.  Her jaw got worse too...her top teeth were on the right and bottom way over to the left.  When I held her she just looked at me and I could tell she was suffering.  I couldn't take her and leave her today in Metarie with a dr we never met and didn't know what they were going to do to her.  She was too weak...if they put her to sleep to work on her she would have never woke up.  And the stress of a strange place and the ride would have been too much on her.  We canceled the appointment and made one here at her vet.  We stayed in the room the whole time to tell her bye.  After the dr that did it...(a different one from the one she had been seeing) told us they wouldn't have been able to save her.  This doctor says she thinks she had bone cancer and she had a heart murmer category 5 ...6 being the worse.  I'm so mad at that other doctor.  He told us Monday when we went that she could be saved...he talked us out of putting her to sleep then.  I'm soo mad at him right now.  I think he messed her up last week when they kept her to work on her...and he was just going to send us to the speaialist to put off what he did wrong.  He never even told us she had a heart murmer.  I will never ever ever go back to him again.   Well she is much much much better right now.  She's eating her carrots and lettuce again and popcorning.   I told them I wanted to take her towel home with me.  I told the Dr. that I wanted it to show my other one that Motah was really gone...she looked at me like I was crazy and said she didn't think it would make much of a difference.  When I got home I went showed Muinea that the towel came home and not Motah..I wanted her to know.  She started wheeking and wheeking real loud (like never before) and then all of a sudden stopped and got real still and just looked at me like she was sad and that she really knew what had happened.  The Dr. doesn't have to believe me but I know that animals know what is going on and they have feelings just like we do.  It was so hard but I know it was the right thing to do.  I miss her so much though and I want her back.  I'll never hear her wheeks again, I'll never see her pick up her little head when I open her door or see her and Muinea play tug of war with a carrot...my baby is gone forever and there is nothing I can do about it.  I"m also worried about Muinea...she's almost 5 years old...will she be able to handle this?  She's not used to being alone...I just hope she can take it.  I"m just going to have to do some extra spoiling to help both of us get over this.  I just didn't expect it to be this soon.  I was ready on Monday and that dr gave me hope that I could have her for 5 more years.  I got my hopes up only to have them destroyed and torn apart.  I'm sorry this post is so long.  I've lost hamsters before but this is my first time loosing a piggy and it's even harder than loosing a hamster.  She was my first piggy I owned and the first I had to say goodbye to.  She will be loved forever and always remembered as one of the nicest and sweetest babies in the world.  I love you so much my baby Motah!  

Misty (slave to Muinea and Motah who is now at Rainbow Bridge)