This is a sad post all.
Periwinkle Pug
Periwinkle Pug left us as suddenly three weeks ago as she showed up two years ago.
On Thursday August 22, 2024 after a very fun surgery morning with the team, Periwinkle was napping with me, and I got really scared.
The day before she had been just a little off. She was as happy and as goofy as ever, but not quite herself.
She had three very short general seizures after being seizure free for several months. She vomited and didn’t eat breakfast or dinner. She had had a louder night than usual which kept me up most of the night. She did not seem distressed, just extra snore-y.
Her kidney values, which I was watching obsessively, had been creeping higher.
That morning she had skipped breakfast as she sometimes does. But skipping three meals in a row was unheard of for Periwinkle. And during her nap, she was again snoring a tiny bit louder than usual.
So I gently shook her to wake her up. She didn’t wake up.
I knew then she was in trouble, but even now I do not know what The Final Thing was.
I gave her oxygen by mask for 15 minutes and then sped to the hospital where Brittany and the team had emergency medications and fluids ready for me. When I got home Periwinkle was curled up in her bed as she was when I left. She had passed away.
I was waiting to write this till we were all doing better. We are not doing better. Doug Dog is a wreck, as are we all.
Thank you for loving her with us and following her goofy antics and admiring her beautiful face with us.
She has been The Most Loved Pug.
We do not know what to do next. The answer right now - as we never ever want it to be in the midst of grief - seems to be to hold tight and be sad. So we are holding tight, and we are very sad.
We sure loved you kiddo. And we miss you so much.
