[NAGDU] Ben

[Debra Baker]

Tracy,

I, too, am praying for your comfort.  Service dogs seem so stoic, even when
they are in pain, so it gives us a glimmer of hope when we see them acting
normally prior to bad news.  One of the young students in a program for
which I just finished teaching braille asked many questions about my last
days with, and decision to euthanize my Bella this past September.  Even
though I have a new dog from TSE now, as of April, the student's questions
still brough back difficult memories of Bella for me to share.  You will
recall and carry both wonderful and unpleasant memories of Ben's life and
death respectively.

Debbie Baker and Opera
Bakerdebra53 at gmail.com


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Subject: [NAGDU] Ben

Ben is gone.  He was his normal self in the morning, and enjoyed sniffing
all around the vet's office, so I felt hopeful.  But when they opened him
up in surgery, there were tumors throughout his abdomen, and there was no
point in going on.  They called us about 3:15, told us the bad news, and
asked my consent to let him go.  All the vets agree it was the best
choice, and the right thing to do, which we know it was, but we're still
very sad.  Ben was a very quiet dog, but there's a big, empty silence
where he was.
Tracy




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