RIP Pearl Blossom Peaches
..well, its been a long 48 hours. Peaches went to Puppy Heaven at 6:40 am this morning, Sept. 29, 2006.
And I'm angry. Angry that I could do so little to ease her pain. She was loving and gracious right to the end.
These shots were taken with my right hand while she allowed me to hold her head up so she could breath (during her last hour, this was about 20 mins before the end). I had her wrapped up in big cozy blankets on my bed while she screamed as she writhed in agony, slipping in and out of consciousness.
Capturing several moments during the last time she was cognizant, I was holding the camera with my right hand while supporting her windpipe by holding her head up with my left (she was in severe shock, but at the time, I thought it was because she'd tripped over something outside and bruised her arthritic hip - I didn't find out till later, when the vet proved his suspicions by easily drawing a full syringe of blood from her abdomen, after she'd died, that a tummor had ruptured her liver, causing her to bleed to death internally).
The sticky, creamy orange stuff on her muzzle is pain-killer laced cheese-whiz, which she could lick. Water would not stay in her mouth. The potion took 5 minutes to work and then gave her 8 or 9 minutes of relief in fitful sleep. The first thing she did when she came around that last time was lick the hand holding her head. She was saying "Thank you. I love you, too".
She will be greatly mourned and missed.
I am so angry.