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Thank you so much Barb and Raven for your kind words, my sympathy goes out to you for your losses too and I'm sure you're right and Odin and Raven have meant up and are having a good time.

The first thing the vet had told us was that he had fluid around his heart so they tried steriods to help that, but after the blood work came back his platlets (not sure if that's spelled right) were very low and the vet said his body was fighting against itself and there was nothing that could be done, he even consulted the University of PA to see if there was anything that could be done. It was very unexpected because, like your Raven, he was acting like a puppy up till Wednesday the 8th of August when he all of a sudden started having a very difficult time breathing.

One of things that is making this extra hard on my husband and I, not that it would have been easy even if this hadn't happened though, is that a little over a year ago my FIL passed from cancer and it was basically the same thing, they found his cancer and 2 weeks later all we could do was watch him having a difficult time breathing and become more and more fragile before he passed.