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Goodnight Eddie

29th
Sep. × ’10
By dominic

When I last wrote about Eddie, it ended up being the day that I let him go. It had been a rough two weeks for him, and as much as I wanted to believe that he was going to get better any day, he wasn’t. I saw the x-ray images. I saw how much he [...]

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The Big Blue C

24th
Aug. × ’10
By dominic

I was fine when he said it was cancer. I was still fine when we discussed different types of cancer and the prognosis for each. I was even fine when we discussed the relative merits of compassionate euthanasia. What got me was this line in the printed client instructions: Indulge him in whatever he wants. [...]

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What a guy! Makes you cry. Und I did.

12th
Aug. × ’10
By dominic

Eddie is ill. This should not be a surprise; he is, after all, fifteen years old which is a fair stretch for a dog. What is a surprise is the suddenness with which his illness has affected him. We always knew about the  swollen liver, the heart murmour, the chronic ear infection, and the hardening [...]

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