Angel Bram
On May 27th 2005 the world as I knew it ended - my once in a lifetime dog, my reason for being, unexpectedly crossed over the bridge.
The evening of May 26th Bram was his usual happy go lucky self. He ate, ran round the yard, played with the other dogs then settled down to sleep. At midnight I got up to drive to Atlanta to pick up Spirit and noticed Bram was not on the bed with me but was lying on the floor at the foot of the bed. He was reluctant to get up and had a haunted look on his face so I knew something was wrong.
I immediately took him to the local ER where they took rads that looked normal except for a full stomach. We thought he had just over eaten so they tried to induce vomiting - to no success. For an unknown reason the vet decided to do an abdominocentesis. She drew off several mls of bloody fluid - within 30 mins we were at the emergency department of NC State vet school where Bram was fast becoming critical.
They placed him on IV fluids, ran bloodwork and performed an ultrasound - the results were devastating. His blood was not clotting and he had a large mass in, they thought, his spleen. I of course opted for surgery where he went at about 4am on May 27th. The surgeon came out of surgery about 30 minutes later so I knew it was bad news. She showed me a picture of his liver, not that you could tell it was liver as there were so many blister like tumours on it. She told me there was no chance of long term survival and offered to euthanaise him on the table. I just couldn't do it - I needed to say goodbye. So, the surgeon removed the lobe of his liver that was bleeding which she thought would give at least a week of quality time. It was not to be....
It was as if Bram knew letting go would be too hard for me, so he took the decision away from me. He passed away at 11am on Friday May 27th 2005, the surgeon who operated on him with him as he crossed the bridge. Histopathology showed he had primary hepatic hemangiosarcoma - how he hung on as long as he did I do not know
Bram was an amazing dog. He survived his battle with seizures when no one thought he would, always with a grin on his face and his tail wagging. After he died I got to spend some time with him and made him a promise - that I would help any dog with seizures who was in need, no matter what it took.
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