[NAGDU] Very Sad News

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Marty.
I'm so sorry for your loss.  
I know she had a great life with you, and I'm sorry to hear it was cut
short.  
Sending good thoughts your way.
Tracy


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From: NAGDU [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mardi Hadfield
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 10:14 AM
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Subject: [NAGDU] Very Sad News

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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