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Changing Lives

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      Changing Lives

      Born on Valentine’s Day 2007, a day that symbolizes love, which my mommy always said was fitting for me. She and my daddy and two brothers bought me from a breeder that was far away from home. We got to know each other on the long 2 hour car ride to my furever home. I found out that before me they were never really considered “dog people”, but my brother had to write a persuasive letter for English class at school and he did such a good job persuading mommy and daddy that a Golden Retriever would be a nice addition to the family that they agreed to buy me. They did have a dog before me once, but he had to live outside with only a dog house. I’m glad my brother persuaded them to let me live inside the warm house with a comfy couch and bed! They named me Chassis, after a car body. I heard them mention the other dog was named Nitro after racing fuel. I guess they like cars. My mommy and my brother took me to puppy training school. That was fun to meet all the other puppies and to learn tricks! They always gave me such tasty treats when I did the tricks right and they would be so happy when I caught on to what they were teaching me. Nothing ever made me happier than to please them. Their smiles and laughs would make me so happy I’d wag my tail and spin in circles to see their joy. For 2 ½ years we had the best life! They took me everywhere with them. We would go to the beach or to the best place, their cabin in the woods. I loved it there! So many new sights and sounds and smells! There sure were lots of smells to explore! They loved me so much and I loved them too. Then one day I got sick. I didn’t know what was wrong but it was so hard to breathe. Especially if I laid down on my side, which was my favorite way to lay. I had to lay on my belly and prop myself up on my legs to get air. So they rushed me to this nice vet that said she would stay open late and wait for us. She did an xray and found fluid in my chest cavity. She had to drain off the fluid which I guess was a lot, like one of those big bottles of pop (or soda if you are not from Michigan like I am). That sure made me feel better, I could breathe again! But the doctor didn’t know what was causing that and it wasn’t long and I could feel it filling back up. In only a couple of days I couldn’t breathe again. My mommy and daddy kept paying lots of money to have the fluid drained every few days while the vet tried to figure out what was wrong. Even the vet started to love me because she kept cutting the price down until she was hardly charging anything to help me breathe. She finally suggested mommy and daddy take me to a special doggy hospital to find out what was wrong. I had this disease called Chylothorax. A big word I didn’t understand. The doggy surgeon said there was a surgery, but it only worked 50% of the time and it cost $5000. My mommy and daddy and both my brothers were crying because they didn’t know what to do. That’s a lot of money to spend on a surgery that might not even work, but they loved me so much and they decided they had to try. Chylothorax means my lymphatic system sprung several leaks and my lymph fluid which is very acidic was leaking into my chest cavity and pressing on my lungs. The acidic fluid was eating away at my lung tissue. This fluid seems to leak faster if I have too much fat in my diet so my mommy had to cook me chicken breast and rice every day for my meals. It tasted so good, but I just wasn’t very hungry. I was very scared when I had to go for my surgery. My mommy and daddy just dropped me off there and left me for days! But then I heard the doctor say I was ready to go home! My mommy and brother came to pick me up and I was so happy to see them. They kept hugging and squeezing me. I finally got to go home. A week is a long time to be away from your home and family and I had missed them so much! I thought I would never see them again. For several days I felt pretty good, but then I could feel the fluid coming back. My surgery didn’t work. My whole family was crying again. They took me back to the nice lady vet and she called the surgery doctor. There was one final shred of hope. An experimental drug treatment usually used on humans! That nice vet drove 2 hours in a bad snowstorm to get my medicine for my mommy and daddy. Then she brought her own dog into work and taught mommy, daddy and my brother how to give shots. I had to have them 3 times a day so they took turns, but I kept filling up with fluid and they kept paying to drain me. Nothing worked and the vet and surgeon told them they had done all they could do. I had just passed my third birthday and I was going to have to be put down. I didn’t like seeing them all so sad. Even though it was getting hard for me to get up and walk, I would come over to them and lay my head in their lap each time they cried. I wished I could talk and tell them I loved them, but somehow they knew. I heard my daddy say, I actually made him feel loved. That made me so happy. I had done my job and turned an ordinary family into a dog family. I taught them things about love that they didn’t know before, so I could go peacefully now, knowing they would be ok. On March 9, 2010 I was scheduled to go to the vet for the very last time at 1pm. My family made me this tasty steak dinner the night before and they sat telling stories about our life together, hugging me and sharing memories. I heard my mommy tell my brother that when they were ready they would adopt sisters, so each of them had another doggy to love. My mommy said that now she is a dog mom and a dog mom without a dog would be too sad of a person. She loved me a lot and knew that no other dog would ever replace me, but maybe just maybe would help to fill the hole in her heart that made her feel like she was breaking in two. My mommy and brother spent a long time with me that morning hugging and crying and then they left me with daddy. He spent the morning with me outside and he cried a lot too. Knowing what he had to do and where he had to take me was killing him. He called the vet and told them he was bringing me in early. He couldn’t take watching me suffer anymore. At 10 am my mommy got this strange feeling and it popped into her head that I was gone. She looked at her watch and it was only 10 am, so she figured she was wrong, but just then she got a text from daddy that said “it’s over”. How did mommy know? I was finally at peace and I could breathe and run and play. But I had one last gift to give them. Mommy got an email from an animal rescue place that had 2 sisters that needed to be adopted together. Their names were Porsche and Mercedes. Car names! I knew they wouldn’t be able to resist car names! I had to find them for them because I heard my mommy say a dog mom without a dog would be too sad and I hated it when they were sad.

    • #117461
      Anonymous
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      What a beautiful story, and what a lucky family you were to have her and she was to have you. I also never thought I was a dog mom and have completely shifted since getting my hairy baby so this really reached me.

    • #118931
      Justin Palmer
      Keymaster

      JoAnn, we posted Chassis’ story on our FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/TheILoveDogsSite/posts/10153838844093079:0

      I wanted to make sure you saw all the comments. We are all moved beyond belief!!!!

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