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My Best Girl - Kricket
She was and will always be my truly, best friend. My best girl, that's what I always told her up until the moment she left me. My KK was only 12 years old...not near enough time with the best JR in the whole world.
She went in for a dental cleaning, my friend(who is the Vet. Tech at the animal hospital) called to tell me she was VERY anemic. Panic set in knowing it could only be bad news for us. To make a horribly painful story short - after 24 hours of tests, x-rays and repeated ultrasounds - they we're discovered. Hemangiosarcoma - Tumors, very aggressive...on her spleen, lung, and in her stomach. They were bleeding out, her chest was filling with fluid...I was going to loose her.
I brought her home. We needed one more night together before our time had to end. I knew what to watch for, thinking a few times she was leaving but no-she was holding on. I think she needed that time as much as I did. My husband slept on the couch that night so KK and I could stay together on the bed.
By the next afternoon the fluid was growing inside her chest, she was getting uncomfortable and she told me it was OK...it was time. I have hated that I had to make that horrendous decision to this day but I knew my girl, and she wouldn't ever leave me any other way. She would have hung on until the last possible minute. I couldn't put her through that. She left this world in her own bed and at peace.
I lost a part of me that day. She never judged me, never left my side, never betrayed me...she was truly the most loyal friend I have ever had.
MY BEST GIRL ALWAYS...I LOVE YOU MUCH - KRICKET. --
