by Jennifer Morriss
This is a sad and touching story about two labs that we had, that were sisters, and were the most loving dogs in the world. I can still remember the day i first saw her chubby little face and she was warm and cuddly urinating all over the house. I watched her grow up for 8 years, and those were some of the most wonderful days of my life. Just about 4 weeks ago, we noticed that one of our labs was not eating right and that she had a big ulser (or so it looked like) on the side of her gums. So being the caring and loving owner my dad is we both hurried to make an appointment to take her in to see the doctor. One of the things the doctor said she thought it could be was cancer, but being optimistic we thought that that could not possibly the problem. My dad was out of town when the doctor called around 8:30 one night. I was wondering why she was calling so late, and handed over the phone to my step mother. Seeing tears come to her eyes i almost knew what had dappened. MY dad who was the closest to this dog, was like i said out of town. So the next morning me and my step-mom took the dog in for a biopse. I was so horrified when my dad acctually came in. He startes calling her nem and she always came to his voice even when she was sick, and she didn't come. My dad and i burst out in tears. He finally understood and learned to live with it. Immidiatly we put her on steroids and took her on daily trips to Chick-Fil-A, because that was the only thing she would eat. About 2 day later, this started happening to our other lab, and she was diagnosed with lymphona. In about a week or two our dog that was first diagnosed, died peacefully while in my dads arm. We had finally gotten ready to take her to be put down and on the way out the door she died in my dads arms. She was so strong in fighting this disease, because she lived and faught the hardest that anyone would have other seen. About 4 days ago the other dog died, though being put to sleep. The one thing I learned from this was that if you fight and live your life to it's fullest every day, you will definatly be remebered. I will till the day i die will remember these sweet angles of mine. To Chessie and Pie (their names) up in heaven, girl I really do miss you, just like everyone who was lucky enough to meet you! Love You Always!!