[NAGDU] Very Sad News

[Sonja O]

Oh that's awful :(
I'm so so so sorry for your losses - take good care of yourself and give yourself some time for grievance <3
Best to you, sonja and chief 

Sonja Ohldag and Chief :)


> On Aug 13, 2016, at 7:15 AM, Mardi Hadfield via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all, Mardi here.Things here have been very hard  on me. In June, I lost
> 2 of my rescued Bearded Dragon lizards with in a week of each other. They
> died of a deadly virus. On Monday morning of this passed week, my Beloved
> Wanagi died. She was the white Husky that I adopted from our local pound
> and I was going to train her as my guide. She had a cough that was
> diagnosed as kennel cough. She still had the cough after the meds were
> gone. She was diagnosed with Valley Fever She recovered from that and was
> able to be off the meds. Again I tried to train her as my guide. One day I
> noticed that one of her beautiful blue eyes looked different.Off to the vet
> again. I was told that the Valley Fever had gone to her eye and she was
> blind in that eye. I so wanted Wanagi to be my guide but it was not to be.
> Wanagi was such a sweet,loving dog and this just breaks my heart. Any way,
> that morning,she was laying by my bed and all of a sudden I heard her cry
> out, the most blood curdling, in pain sound. I jumped off the bed to see
> what was wrong.She just lay there, unresponsive. I called my friend and she
> rushed over and another friend helped us get Wanagi in the car. As we were
> in the car on the way to the vet, thoughts of my beloved guide Nala were
> going through my mind. This was very sudden and  both Nala and Wanagi  were
> perfectly fine an hour before this happened. Neither one showed any
> symptoms at all.We got to the vet and were waiting to hear what the vet had
> to say. Wanagi had the same tumor on the spleen that killed Nala in
> 2011.Wanagi's tumor also had grown all the way up to her heart. The one on
> the spleen had burst. There was nothing that could be done for her. She was
> put to sleep. I loved Wanagi as much as my guide dogs and my heart is
> broken. All the other dogs have been looking for her as she was the pack
> leader,that is, under me.The vet said that this kind of tumor is very
> common,and she sees about 2 to 3 dogs a month with the same tumor,and the
> outcome is always death.      With sad hearts,   Mardi and
> Shaman,semi-retired, Neechee,GD and Sedona, GDIT and Tokala, Tunun,Tess,
> and Mayah, my rescues and Lady who is staying with me for a while until she
> can go and live with Rachel.
> 
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