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Canine Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA & IMHA) - Recent losses
| Several on this forum have recently had losses and Each loss saddens me so. To those of you who have recently lost your dog to AIHA/IMHA or something else please accept my deepest sympathies on your loss. When you feel up to it, I hope you will visit the Loss & Grief page at the Meisha’s Hope AIHA/IMHA website. The URL of the Loss & Grief page is: http://www.cloudnet.com/~jdickson/loss.htm This page was written with input from those who have lost their dogs to AIHA/IMHA and contains many resources that will be very helpful to you during these most difficult days. I know how hard it is to move forward after a loss. I personally have lost three dogs in less then 8 years. My last loss was my dear Maddie in late July of last year. She was gone only 7 hours after suffering a stroke. After losing Maddie I found myself without a dog for the first time in over 37 years. I had not planned to get another dog right away but the pain of not having a dog was so great so I adopted another dog from a shelter only two days later. This dog (Maggie) will never ever replace Maddie, or Margo or Meisha, but she needed a home and I needed a dog so even thought Maggie is a handful on even her good days she is a blessing. I personally beleive that everything that happens to us in life happens for a reason. It is our job to find the reason and use our pain to help others. It is so important to never waste our pain but to let it spur us on to help others. Once again, please accept my deepest sympathies on your loss. Know that you and your families are in my thoughts and prayers during these most difficult days |
| Joanne MN |
| Thanks for this post. It makes me feel good about our decision to adopt again sooner rather than later! |
| Jennifer |
| Dear Joanne, I am one of the many who has lost a little angel recently, the loss is unbearable,but my little angel has sent me a 4 month old rescue puppy who has made my home alive again, some have said to wait but the emptiness was so difficult, and I was not coping, I have my new little girl Honey who although a handful is a joy and has eased the pain of my darling little girl Holly who I will love forever and will meet again on day, what I reaaly want to say you will know in your heart if the time is right. Thank youxx Diane |
| diane luton england |
| Dear Joanne, What you have said has made me feel a lot better about our decision to adopt a cat after we lost our darling Will just over 3 weeks ago. While I am fortunate to have a surviving IMHA dog, how quickly we lost Will hit me hard because I'd fought IMHA for so long with Millie and we are winning, I couldn't believe there was nothing I could do to save Will and he was gone within 2 hours of us getting him to the vet. The weekend after Will passed, we decided to adopt a cat from the shelter. We read in the newspaper so many were being euthanised because they could not be rehomed, we just had to save a life. I know Will would have approved and welcomed a new friend to our home. We bought a gorgeous girl home, and called her Emmy. Some friends couldn't believe we adopted so soon, but it felt right. I never let anyone tell me that I should have waited, it's a personal decision. Emmy does not replace Will. My thoughts are with everyone who has lost a beloved pet, Sam, Millie and Angel Will. |
| Samantha Geelong Australia |
| All comments so very, very true. I had no intentions of getting another puppy again, after the loss of Oliver in September, but then the rescue pup Butters came our way about 1 1/2- 2 months later. You never ever stop loving your pups that have passed, but it feels good to have the capacity to continue to love and share that love with another puppy. I sometimes think it is better to get another puppy sooner than later because sometimes we can become lost in our own sorrow and grief and having another pup doesn't allow us to do this to the same extreme. My thoughts are with everyone. |
| Mardi Northern Calif |
| Really can't express in words how I feel except for one - why? I was brought up on a farm and have lived around dogs all my life but this has been a horrible experience for want of better words.Our first Spaniel Millie had a "blood blister" on her spleen which was removed in the May but by July she had multi organ failure and we lost her at age 7 years.George who had survived a slipped disc and it's traumatic surgery, developed this terrible illness which invaded his body all over, so we lost him about a year later,he was 9 years old. I blamed myself as I bought them both from a pet shop and then the shop as I believed they were maybe puppy farmed.I was determined to do things right and went for an accredited breeder to buy Joey- he was diagnosed at 2 years and 5 months.Joe's now 17 months clear and although he is overweight and suffers from hayfever is in good health however, I still live on a knife edge that it will come back again. Can't write anymore, Love to all, Corrie.xx |
| Corrie Dagenham Essex UK |
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