RIP 11/15/05 - 10/17/10

Goodbye my friend. You will be missed.

Keep moving along

It has been awhile since the last update, it's just hard to write about the steady decline of my friend. Since we haven't had any additional doctor appointments and divine intervention hasn't happened yet(still hoping)I don't have any good news, so here it is. Saturday Zoey had a dark tarry stool which is an indication of blood in the digestive system, luckily it hasn't been as bad the last few days so that seems to be healing. The growth on her shoulder is huge, I would say it's about the size of a grapefruit and that's just the part you can see on the surface. I do know that it goes much further down into her neck and chest area. Yesterday it started to puss up a little bit and today it is very obvious that the skin is pulled tight and starting to split. She has a round spot about the size of a silver dollar that is bleeding and oozing up, and since the growth is getting bigger its just a matter of time before the skin splits. The skin just cant handle the high growth rate of the tumor and has stretched to its max. She starting to have a bit of trouble breathing, it seems to be erratic while she is laying on her side. She has stopped eating most of her food and will only eat one can of wet food at night. Even with that one can it takes her a couple hours to finish, she does however still love the chicken jerky so that's keeping her alive. Last night she chased the bright orange toy around for about 15 minutes then she started to get very tired. I have also upped the amount of pain killers to two tablets every eight hours from one and half every 12 hours. So now she is super drugged up and feeling a little loopy.

My plan this weekend is to go to the beach for one last time, as I think the end is very close.

Short and to the point without much visual flavor text I know, it's just been a rough few days.