Hello all, its been some time that I've posted but I think of you all often and check the board
time to time.
We have had a horrible loss in the family. My Nickelbe pass on Tues March 23 by complete shock
to us.
She hasn't been feeling well lately, just something was off so I was watching her extra closely
trying to figure out what might be going on. I took her temp a few times, watching her poop
gave her pumpkin time to time so make sure I would see nothing different, gave her some ascriptin
to see if that perked her up but after a week or so she just still seemed off. I took her to the
vet on Monday still not thinking anything to serious, they noticed her gums where pinkish pale
and they suspected a tumor. It was the last thing really that came to my mind so I was kinda
shocked but hopeful it was nothing to serious.
They did x-rays and found a large lump by her spleen, could be of two things. One it was non
serious and confinded to the spleen and they would remove it and she would be fine, the other
was it was serious cancer and could be in her vital organs, or it could be a big bruise or hemotoma
on her spleen they wouldn't know till they got in there. I was praying for a hemotoma cause she
was a big girl and had taken a fall the week or so before, I'm like it made sense to me and I conviced
myself that was it, Nicki seemed just bla lately but nothing seriously sick. We booked surgery the next
day I wanted it out and for her to just get better.
Well the next day I called in to work and took her in to the vet at 9am they took more x-rays of her upper
chest to make sure there were no tumors around her heart and lungs, those showed up good so I was
even more positive it would go fine. I gave her lots of hugs and kisses and told her I would be back to
pick her up later, but that didn't happen. They called me by speaker phone to tell me that when they opened
her up her belly and took back the layer skin/muscle the inside of the wall was covered in tiny pebble like tumors
that are so small they don't show up on the x-ray. The vet said there was thousands of them and they had spread around liver and kidneys along with the very large tumor on her spleen. I was crushed and broke down in tears, even if they removed the big tumor she would not live very long cause she was filled with cancer. We decided to just put her to sleep cause I could never bring her home only to watch her die anyways. It's been horrible and I miss her so much my heart just aches. It was so fast and just completely blind sided me, it never crossed my mind it was something like this. I sometime wish I would have never taken
her to the vet and I would have had more time, but if I look back now I see more of the signs that she really did not feel good.
Anyways Nickelbe was truely a blessing who touched may lives. She was loved so much and has been a gift to us that will
be treasured forever. My husband and I are taking this one pretty hard, she was one of our children and we were not ready
to let her go. We lost Bella two years ago now in June, with her she was 14 and we prepared ourselves that she would pass but Nicki would have been 8 on April 11th and this took us completely by surprise. There just is never enought time.
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