Loki-boy goodbye.
Couldn't really talk about it yesterday, so here's the official news: Loki passed away yesterday in the early morning. They found heavy fluid around his heart, likely due to a heart-based malignancy. They tried to draw the fluid off (the dangerous procedure I alluded to), and he arrested in surgery. They were able to bring him back once, but the second time he arrested it was time for him to go...
We had gone home and tried to get some sleep. They called us when he arrested the second time, and we got back to the hospital just minutes after he passed. It was heartbreaking we didn't get there a little sooner. They let us get in the room with him and snuggle him and pet him and tell him what a good boy he was...I treasure that last couple of minutes with our sweet boy.
We did opt to still have the party last night. We figured we could waste a lot of food and sit around crying all night just the two of us, or we could press ahead and be surrounded by loved ones, so we opted for the latter. It felt so wrong to not see him running around the party like he always did, being the little social butterfly herder he always was.
I had a lot of irrational moments prepping for the party, like I didn't want to vacuum up his hair; but of course I did... Sobbing every 10 minutes all day long left me feeling very weak and headachey when the party began, but the more faces of love and friendship that came through the door, the more energized and uplifted we both felt. I can't tell you how much you guys who came last night really helped us. You unknowingly offered some healing and peace at a time we really needed it. Thank you for coming and just being fun. You didn't know we were treating this party as a little wake for Loki, but it was a fitting tribute. Trust me, he would have loved this party, and all of you there would have been leaned into at least once in his loving herder-breed way.
I miss him so much.
We had gone home and tried to get some sleep. They called us when he arrested the second time, and we got back to the hospital just minutes after he passed. It was heartbreaking we didn't get there a little sooner. They let us get in the room with him and snuggle him and pet him and tell him what a good boy he was...I treasure that last couple of minutes with our sweet boy.
We did opt to still have the party last night. We figured we could waste a lot of food and sit around crying all night just the two of us, or we could press ahead and be surrounded by loved ones, so we opted for the latter. It felt so wrong to not see him running around the party like he always did, being the little social butterfly herder he always was.
I had a lot of irrational moments prepping for the party, like I didn't want to vacuum up his hair; but of course I did... Sobbing every 10 minutes all day long left me feeling very weak and headachey when the party began, but the more faces of love and friendship that came through the door, the more energized and uplifted we both felt. I can't tell you how much you guys who came last night really helped us. You unknowingly offered some healing and peace at a time we really needed it. Thank you for coming and just being fun. You didn't know we were treating this party as a little wake for Loki, but it was a fitting tribute. Trust me, he would have loved this party, and all of you there would have been leaned into at least once in his loving herder-breed way.
I miss him so much.
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