Today is my birthday and we have to put the family dog down. I have to go to work today and wait until I can leave to drive the hour to my parents house to go together to put the dog down because I want to be there.

Tomorrow I go for the baby’s anatomy scan and then this weekend I’m in my best friends wedding.

All good things surrounded by this one awful thing.

She’s 14, would be 15 in February, is anemic, hasn’t eaten since Sunday and stopped drinking sometime yesterday.

It’s for the best and we don’t want her to suffer. She can’t walk and is just lifting her head. It sucks because she seems so aware but again we don’t want her to suffer. I feel bad enough asking my parents to wait- I did tell them to do it without me if they felt she seemed too bad- but they figure they can give her one last relaxing day at home before I get there.

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