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Her time is growing short<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When one has reached my age you have seen too many die of old age.<\/p>\n

It seems to follow the same course whether a person or an animal.<\/p>\n

My long-time best friend is winding down and the end may\u00a0not be far.<\/p>\n

Sleeping much of the time, appetite slowly disappearing.<\/p>\n

Walking is painful with many stops to rest, and she no longer meets me at the door when I come home.<\/p>\n

My wife says she’s hanging in because she loves me so much and I should talk to her and tell her it’s okay to let go.<\/p>\n

How can I do that?<\/p>\n

I give her pain medication twice a day so she can walk and honey by mouth 4 times a day to try to keep her sugar levels up so she doesn’t have a seizure.<\/p>\n

It still happens sometimes because honey is no substitute for a functioning pancreas.<\/p>\n

I had another dog that died almost the same way about 3 years ago.<\/p>\n

Hand feeding, lots of medicine and care and one day he collapsed right in front of me and died.<\/p>\n

It took me a year to get over it.<\/p>\n

Thinking back, his quality of life was only fair and I wonder if I did the animal any favor by stretching his life out the few extra months.<\/p>\n

It does raise all sorts of questions for me about when it’s time to let go and how long to fight the inevitable.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to give up, especially with something that has been with me for so long and is part of the family – part of my life.<\/p>\n

Someday\u00a0I’ll have that talk.
\nBut not now.<\/p>\n

I’m being selfish.<\/p>\n

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