Donna1969
Boxer Insane
It's been some time since I've been on BW. Life just got really busy.
I lost my Carson last evening..very suddenly, very unexpectedly. He was playing with me and my daughters and his 'sister' Echo. He started to head upstairs but then came flying past me and skid on the basement floor...he then began to have what looked like a seizure. He came to in under a minute a so but seemed a bit spacey for lack of a better word. Gave me a nubby wag when I asked if he wanted to gou outside. He bounced up the stairs like nothing had happened. I let him out with Echo, watched him for a minute or so to make sure he was ok, turned my back to head into the kitchen to grab my water bottle to go out with the dogs, when my daughter let out this blood curling scream for me.
I looked out the back door and saw him lying on his side in the grass. Echo was bouncing like she does when she tries to get him to play as she would then nudge him and lick him trying to get him to play but he wasn't moving. I flew out the door and looked at him, his eyes were open but not moving or blinking...no real rise or fall of his chest but I did notice a quick fluttering toward his belly that looked like very quick breathing. I turned quick to go grab my stethescope (I'm an RN) but something made me turn back and go to him...I knelt by him and didn't see the fluttering type breathing but noticed a fluttery like muscle twitch in his back...then nothing. I knew he was gone. He wasn't sick a day in his life, had no signs or symptoms of anything wrong last night or in the weeks prior. Only that seizure like thing just prior to his passing. I was (and still am) in complete shock.
I brought him to the ER Vet and she said from the sounds of it (and after thinking back there may have been a few subtle signs of it in the last few months..but nothing that made me go hummm take him to the doc) he had sudden death from cardiomyopathy. Now he was never the one I thought would be taken by that! Echo is the one with the murmur and who has been monitored since she was a pup..and Carson is the one who quite literally dropped dead.
He was such a sweet boy. And while I'm devestated he's gone and still can't fathom he is..I am so thankful it was quick and painless and that his last few minutes on Earth were spent with me, my two girls and his fur sister, playing and jumping around like the clown he was.
Rest Easy my handsome blue eyed boy..you will be forever loved and forever missed.
I lost my Carson last evening..very suddenly, very unexpectedly. He was playing with me and my daughters and his 'sister' Echo. He started to head upstairs but then came flying past me and skid on the basement floor...he then began to have what looked like a seizure. He came to in under a minute a so but seemed a bit spacey for lack of a better word. Gave me a nubby wag when I asked if he wanted to gou outside. He bounced up the stairs like nothing had happened. I let him out with Echo, watched him for a minute or so to make sure he was ok, turned my back to head into the kitchen to grab my water bottle to go out with the dogs, when my daughter let out this blood curling scream for me.
I looked out the back door and saw him lying on his side in the grass. Echo was bouncing like she does when she tries to get him to play as she would then nudge him and lick him trying to get him to play but he wasn't moving. I flew out the door and looked at him, his eyes were open but not moving or blinking...no real rise or fall of his chest but I did notice a quick fluttering toward his belly that looked like very quick breathing. I turned quick to go grab my stethescope (I'm an RN) but something made me turn back and go to him...I knelt by him and didn't see the fluttering type breathing but noticed a fluttery like muscle twitch in his back...then nothing. I knew he was gone. He wasn't sick a day in his life, had no signs or symptoms of anything wrong last night or in the weeks prior. Only that seizure like thing just prior to his passing. I was (and still am) in complete shock.
I brought him to the ER Vet and she said from the sounds of it (and after thinking back there may have been a few subtle signs of it in the last few months..but nothing that made me go hummm take him to the doc) he had sudden death from cardiomyopathy. Now he was never the one I thought would be taken by that! Echo is the one with the murmur and who has been monitored since she was a pup..and Carson is the one who quite literally dropped dead.
He was such a sweet boy. And while I'm devestated he's gone and still can't fathom he is..I am so thankful it was quick and painless and that his last few minutes on Earth were spent with me, my two girls and his fur sister, playing and jumping around like the clown he was.
Rest Easy my handsome blue eyed boy..you will be forever loved and forever missed.
