Monday, April 19, 2021

adios little bailey

it's taken me a while to get this post up but on 5 april, we had to say goodbye to our little girl. she put up quite the fight, but in the end, we had to make the decision to let her go. she had pretty much stopped eating and had lost so much weight. she could hardly stand without falling down. 

we had a really long talk with our vet and he thought her pancreatitis had returned. she had pancreatitis last year (and beat it!) but the treatments took a lot out of her. it had returned last month and she had a week of treatments. we had thought that was enough but i guess not. doc didn't think she was strong enough to withstand any more treatments (she was down to 2.8 pounds!) so our only option, for her sake, was to let her go.

my heart is in pieces and i feel so lost. she was by my side 24/7. she even slept on my chest when we went to bed. our home is like an empty shell without her. she was tiny but she has left a huge hole in my heart.

our last picture together

medicine time was her least favorite time of day and had to be "persuaded" to take them. 


looking through my camera roll of her pictures, i see how she had declined in health over the last few months.  she put on a brave front but she couldn't go on pretending everything was ok and we couldn't let her. 

our little princess

reunited in doggie heaven with her best pal, aoife

she loved her daddy more than anything

bailey attended the weddings of both of our daughters

little bailey loved to play on her giant lamb chop

my "drinking" buddy

oh, that face!

spoiled rotten little doggie

proud of her chihuahua heritage

goldilocks? BOL

she was such a sport and didn't mind at all when i would dress her up. if she didn't like it, i wouldn't have done it. really, she was ok with it.
she loved to be wrapped up in a blanket and she always needed a pillow under her little apple head. ok, yes, we spoiled her but she deserved it.
she also loved to travel and was great on road trips. she's travelled california from san francisco down to san diego. we even took her on our anniversary trip to tucson, arizona!
but i think her most favorite thing was when the three of us sat on the sofa together. mommy on one side and daddy on the other. pure bliss.
   
i love you little bailey. i will miss you forever.

rescued 2010 - lost 2021


be safe my friends-

Monday, April 5, 2021

sun puddle

over the weekend we had a very nice sun puddle in our living room so i put bailey's bed right smack in the middle of it. when i showed her, she stumbled into her bed and went right to sleep.



until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Thursday, April 1, 2021

model doggie #tbt

aww, little bailey 10 years ago, modeling her brand new dress. BOL


until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

the grand illusion

bailey looks like she's got a big pregnant belly, but it's actually just my arm! BOL. just goes to show, looks can be deceiving.



until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

crumby

how did bailey get such a crumby nose?


that's what happens when she eats cookies. she doesn't know how to lick them off so they just stay there. BOL



until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Monday, March 29, 2021

update

bailey's blood test came back and her numbers were still a little elevated. normal should be 200, hers were 227. not too far off. doc felt they were in a safe enough range to stop her treatment. that was wednesday. she's been ok since then. her mornings start out pretty slow but then she perks up throughout the day. she can get around on her own, for the most part. i did have her on leash, even in the house, because she would fall over or crash into things. that has stopped and she can pretty much walk on her own now. she doesn't have full access to our house though. she is contained to whatever room i am in. better to be safe than sorry.

 


until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Thursday, March 25, 2021

feather in her cap

this pic showed up in my facebook memories a couple of days ago. it was from a post in march of 2017. i have no idea what bird that feather came from but it was a beauty. i found it in a parking lot and had to bring it home. 


until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

3rd treatment

bailey had another treatment for her pancreatitis yesterday and they took more blood to see how her body is reacting to the treatments. today she will only get subcutaneous fluids. this'll be a much shorter visit. the full treatment takes about an hour but fluids only take about a minute to administer. again, she slept all the way home. our vet is 30 miles away, so that was a pretty good nap.

thank you for all of your prayers and healing vibes. we are grateful for each and every one. 



until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

it's back

bailey has been a bit under the weather lately and we've been seeing our vet on a weekly basis. he suspected that her pancreatitis has returned, so friday he took some blood to see what turned up. (she had quite the battle with pancreatitis, and beat it, almost exactly a year ago.) yesterday we got the results and it was confirmed, again. friday she had her first treatment, saturday and sunday she received fluids and first thing yesterday morning she had her second treatment. poor baby, it takes so much out of her. he inserts a catheter into her tummy and injects the medication directly into her pancreas. (i'm pretty sure that's what he said.)


she was so tired from the procedure, she slept all the way home. she was out of it most of the day and didn't perk up until around 4:00. she ate a little (very little) then went back to sleep. i had to wake her to take her medications then she went back to sleep. today we go back to the vet. i think he's gonna take more blood to see if there's any improvement. (her last battle with pancreatitis took 3 weeks of daily visits to bring her back.) doc had said it wasn't as bad as last year and that she should only need few treatments because we caught it early. i pray he is right. please keep her in your thoughts as she, once again, battles pancreatitis. 


until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Monday, March 22, 2021

car seat no-no

bailey is demonstrating on how NOT to sit in a car seat. we had just visited our vet (where they took blood to run some tests. more on that later.) and bailey was still a little wound up. after we sat in the car for a few minutes, she calmed down and i was able to drive home, with her properly seated in her car seat.



until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Thursday, March 18, 2021

b is for bailey #tbt

this pic was taken in march of 2015, just 4 months after her accident. looking good, bailey!


until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

heeere's bee!

it occurred to me that i haven't shared a pic of bee in a few weeks, so heeere she is! we've been having terrible weather lately. this was taken a few weeks ago when we could go outside and not get drenched. BOL


blog hop

until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Monday, March 15, 2021

another update

we had another visit to the vet friday and this is how bailey sat in her car seat on our way home. she was so pooped. but comfy? i dunno. BOL


doc looked in her eyes and said she's not completely blind but her vision is definitely impaired. he said to continue with her eye drops to reduce her eye pressure. he also said to increase the dosage to 3 times a day.



until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Thursday, March 11, 2021

monkeying around #tbt

in going through some old pix of bailey, i landed on this one, from march 2013, that made me smile. i hope it makes you smile too.


until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

silly girl #tot

my silly little girl is looking adorable as ever wearing a doily on her little apple head. and she wears it so well, don't ya think? BOL



until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Monday, March 8, 2021

footsies

at first glance this just looks like little bailey catching some z's.


but let me zoom in for you. awww, so many little footsies! BOL



until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Thursday, March 4, 2021

temecula #tbt

hay, hey look, it's 2017 all over again! this photo was taken exactly 4 years ago in temecula. we used to love day-tripping there. as soon as we can venture out of our neighborhood again, i think this is where i want to go.

4 march 2017

until we meet again my friends, stay safe-

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

#tot on a #ww

we love breaking rules, so we are posting tongue out tuesday pics on a (not so) wordless wednesday. and you are getting a double dose; a profile and a full frontal, in which bailey looks a little tipsy. BOL 



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until we meet again my friends, stay safe-