DAY 65

It's Friday around Noon.

Gracie's condition took a big turn for the worse yesterday.  It's like she hit a wall!
We were so hopeful after the drive Wednesday and the new food she began eating.  But she just lost her will to fight anymore. She "told" us yesterday and again last night that she was ready to go to the Rainbow Bridge to wait for us.  She stopped eating and drinking despite our efforts to coax her to try.

We got in touch with the vet last night about 6:30 and we arranged to move the Monday tests up to today.
After talking with him and his nurse for two hours we all came to the conclusion that it would not do any good to run any more tests - she was not improving after 11 days of trying.  Treatment was not working!  The kidneys were simply too damaged to stop there decline.  With her bad knee and inability to walk for three weeks, she was loosing muscle mass which in turn was putting more and more protein in her system, stressing the kidneys even more.  It was like a viscious circle - can't fix the knee until kidneys stabilize, without the knee fixed she loses muscle, losing muscle further damages the kidneys.

She fought the good fight and never complained about all the poking and prodding and injections and medications. It is with great sadness that we honored her wishes and put our Gracie to sleep at 11:30 this morning.  We both were holding her and comforting her as her pain finally came to an end.  We love you Grace!

Thank you for all the support given to us in this three week ordeal.

That's all we are able say right now.