11/7/2017 0 Comments This I Believe....I believe that having hope can get you through hard times. I have always found it hard to stay positive when life is at its worst. Bad news can come out of nowhere sometimes. One day everything will be fine and then the next day you're hit with bad news that you would have never expected.
Over the summer of 2017 i had a great time spending time with my friends and family, going to away camps, and best of all sleeping in! My family always goes to the beach with my cousins and grandparents. We brought my two dogs, Lily and Jackson. We all had a fun and relaxing week at the beach. A couple days after we got home my puppy Lily, who is about one and a half, was acting really different. Lily is a schnauzer mix, and she is really spunky and unique. She likes to play with Jackson, my other dog who I have had my whole life. Lily is probably one of the most energetic dogs I have ever met. Right away we could tell something was wrong with her. She wasn't walking, we had to pick her up to move her, and she refused to eat. We took her to the vet but the vet that we normally see was on a mission trip, so we had to see a new vet that we have never had before.He said that she might have broken a bone in her back or something. The next week or two, early in the morning around six AM, me and my dad woke my dogs up to go outside. Lily completely collapsed on the floor and couldn't move.At this point I didn't know what to do. I layed on the floor next to her holding her while yelling at my mom to call the vet. My parents took her to the vet and I went to a friends house to take my mind off of it. I got a text from my dad later saying that they were at the NC state vet and Lily was being checked out. It turned out that she had fluid in her lungs which was causing her to have trouble breathing. Looking at my phone I just thought that it wouldn't be a huge deal and it would be easy to fix. We had two choices, she could stay at the vet over night and they could do a bunch of tests on her and it would cost thousands of dollars, or we could take her home and see how she's doing.My parents decided to take her home, due to how expensive it would be and there still could have been a chance that they didn't find anything. She was on tons of meds and was very sleepy. A few days later we found out that she wasn't going to make it and there is nothing to fix it. This was a shock to everyone in my family, because Lily was very young, she was a playful and healthy puppy and so we were very surprised. Even though Lily is just a dog and we had only had her for about two years, it affected my whole family. It was hard for me because my best friend, who is also my neighbor almost lost her mom around the same time that all of this was going on. She would come to my house everyday, in hopes that I might cheer her up, but my house was very quiet and gloomy. It effected my mom big time. She was incredibly stressed out and every night my mom would sleep on the floor next to Lily for about two weeks. My sister and I went to go to my grandparents house in Wilson, North Carolina to see my cousin. We stayed there for about three days. When me and my sister were leaving to go there we knew that that would probably be the last time we see Lily, but i still had hope. I had fun with my cousin because I never really get to see her. My dad called me and my sister giving us good news. The fluid had disappeared and they have no idea where it had gone. We went home and my parents told me the story. Lily had collapsed again while we were at my grandparents house. They knew that she was just getting worse so they took her to the vet to put her down. When they got their they found out that the vet that we usually saw was there. Right before she was about to put her down she said that she wanted to check up on her really quickly. When she came back she said that she did a scan and didn't find any fluid. Everyone was so shocked. Because of this experience i have learned many things. I know to always be hopeful because anything can happen. Having hope may be hard at times but you never know how things may turn out in the end.
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