TMF Jeff
TMF owner and co-founder
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Thanks for being so supportive, everyone - it's really meant a lot to me.
Blossom saw her oncologist Thursday and had the first of five chemo injections. And she's on an anti-inflammatory that's proven to be effective with her type of cancer. She'll be on that for the rest of her life, and a small dose of chemo that she'll take in pill form. It's not cheap, and I'm going to have to make some sacrifices, but she's more than worth it.
Her prognosis is 12-24 months, which is not bad all things considered. If she makes it for two more years, she'll be 15 years old which is not bad for a dachshund. We'll have been together for 12 years, and I think I'm going to feel pretty good about the life I gave her, and the way I saw her to the end of her road.
My friend Deb calls it "The final act of love," and I've taken a lot of comfort from that notion. There was never any possibility that my dog would outlive me, so I always knew that one way or another I would have to deal with this. So while I'm of course very sad about it, and will be devastated when the end comes, I feel ok about things.
Blossom saw her oncologist Thursday and had the first of five chemo injections. And she's on an anti-inflammatory that's proven to be effective with her type of cancer. She'll be on that for the rest of her life, and a small dose of chemo that she'll take in pill form. It's not cheap, and I'm going to have to make some sacrifices, but she's more than worth it.
Her prognosis is 12-24 months, which is not bad all things considered. If she makes it for two more years, she'll be 15 years old which is not bad for a dachshund. We'll have been together for 12 years, and I think I'm going to feel pretty good about the life I gave her, and the way I saw her to the end of her road.
My friend Deb calls it "The final act of love," and I've taken a lot of comfort from that notion. There was never any possibility that my dog would outlive me, so I always knew that one way or another I would have to deal with this. So while I'm of course very sad about it, and will be devastated when the end comes, I feel ok about things.