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Sorry to hear. Family is family, furry or not. It sounds like he was deeply loved and my guess is he had the best life he could with you and your family. Though gone, those moments live on in your heart. My condolences.

@redhawk I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. I know exactly how that feels having to suddenly put my own cat down a month ago. You made the right decision not prolonging his pain. 12 years old is a good life for a Frenchie and it looks like he was loved.

A few days ago I was so tired I couldn't get out of bed to pick up the phone. Every time I stood up the room started to spin, so I just slept and slept. Every time I'd try to drink water, I'd get extremely ill. I tried to ignore the symptoms, but eventually I just couldn't once I passed the 48 hour mark without being able to keep water down, I just had to be seen. Well, it's a good thing I went. Soon after I got in, they admitted me for severe metabolic acidosis. There were a ton of ketones in my blood and my body has basically been living off itself. The doctor told me all my levels indicate starvation and malnutrition. My levels were so off it was insane. My doctor said if I hadn't come in things would've spiraled out of control and eventually killed me. I can't even remember how many medicines they gave me. Every few hours they had to give me something new to control this. I'm finally home and stable, but this definitely freaked me out for the long term. It's very easy to justify not drinking a lot because I'm simply used to it, but it never occurs to me how much this is destroying my body. I'm just exhausted from all the testing and blood work, I feel I could sleep for a week straight. When I think of what could have happened if I continued to just push through and ignore it... I'm just thankful something pushed me to go to the hospital even when I didn't feel like it, because that's largely why I'm still here.