RE: A part of my life in a collage - for the first Photocollagecontest #1//Pets
It is a great pity that big dogs leave the earth even earlier. Snoop is a really big Ridgeback and he has osteoarthritis. He's on medication but i'm afraid of the warm weather soon to come. Last year in summertime he could not walk very much and was constantly in pain. Then we found a new medicin and gave it a try. With sinking temperatures and the new medicine, he was fit again and even ran on the beach. But soon summer will be back and i don't want to see him in pain anymore. But he had some nice years in his older age as he was a rescue dog. Before we got him, he was chained all day and didn't got enough food and i'm sure he was beaten too. And then he was brought to a vet with a stomach turn to put him down. But this great veterinarian has operated on his own cost and conveyed him further. So he came to us. He was just skin and bones and did not have much faith in humans. After a while he gained trust to us and started to look very good. He has such a beautiful soul.
Getting old with pain is no fun.
My grandmother became 99 and i'm sure she would have made the 100 if she didn't fell out of the bed and broke her hips. After surgery she never recovered and died. It's great that you keep your grandparents active with doing nice things with them. That's how it should be in a family.
Odd, we always noticed that the cold was an issue when our dog got older and he died naturally at the end of Oct, but we were probably going to have to put him down before the winter hit. He had been in a lot of pain the year before, but luckily the cold ended early and he started to do better.
Maybe the new meds are doing more then you think...fingers crossed!
The hips...that is the one that seems to be the downfall for so many older people. Once the hip breaks it's all downhill. 99 is an amazing amount of time to get to spend on this planet, if we could all be so lucky.
It depends on what the problem is on the bones and joints. By Snoop, it's the inflammation inside the joints that blooms as soon as it warms up. If the disease is rheumatic, you need the warmth to relieve the pain.
Well still hope the meds are doing better then you think and you get one more good summer!