Last Week…
…was a rough week. On Monday Camden was sent home from school sick. I wasn’t feeling well either. Then on Tues (my birthday) Mark was sick and I wasn’t great either. Went back to work Wed and everyone seem to return to health. On Thursday afternoon Bailey quit eating. That evening she had great difficulty standing and needed our help. After a phone call with Mark’s sister, Andrea, we knew she would need to see the vet on Friday. After taking the boys to the dentist Friday at 7:30 (Carsten no cavities, Camden has a couple) I took Bailey to her first vet. There they did blood work and determined that she was very sick, critical in fact. After an abdominal xray showed a possible mass we went to a referral hospital to have an ultrasound done. I spoke to Andrea again and we discussed the benefits to surgery and if there were multiple organs involved the unlikelihood of improvement. The ultrasound confirmed she had a mass on her spleen that was bleeding internally. It also identified several masses in her liver. After that I took Bailey home. Mark picked up Camden from school and we all hung out with Bailey and said our goodbyes. Bailey got to eat a Klondike Ice Cream Bar. She loved it! She was put to sleep on Friday May 8th at 5:00 pm. She was such a great dog and a very special part of our family for the last 12 years.
Friday was also Mark’s Dad’s birthday. We were supposed to go out to dinner, but weren’t feeling up to it. His parents came to our house and we ate some pizza. On Saturday I was still very sad. We went out to breakfast and tried to do some normal activities. Saturday afternoon we took the boys and Mark’s parents to the Diamondbacks game. We celebrated both birthday and Mother’s Day. Then on Sunday, after church we went down to Casa Grande and met my mom and Ken and had a yummy lunch at Olive Garden. Sunday afternoon was spent doing laundry and hanging around at the house.