Sophia

~The Creation~

When God had made the earth and sky the flowers and the trees, He then made all the animals the fish, the birds and bees. And when at last He'd finished not one was quite the same. He said, "I'll walk this world of mine and give each one a name." And so He traveled far and wide and everywhere He went, a little creature followed Him until it's strength was spent. When all were named upon the earth and in the sky and sea, the little creature said, "Dear Lord, there's not one left for me." Kindly the Father said to him, "I've left you to the end. I've turned my own name back to front and called you dog, my friend." Author Unknown

RIP, Sophia. Your life was way too short. A tragic loss with no explanation. Just 18 months old and you seem to win over everyone’s heart. You will be deeply missed and never forgotten.

Love you.

Your Mommy,

Michelle

I wanted EVERYONE to think about this!! My Sophia has passed away on 2-9-08 at just 18 months old. She was in perfect health until her shots on Wed. (2-6-08). Then she was lying around and her ears were hanging like she didn't feel good. I thought nothing of it because she always got that way after the shots!

Thurs. (2-7-08) she started having seizures. We took her to the animal hospital where they kept her over night. They could not stop her seizures with all the med. they gave her. When the med. would wear off, her seizure activity would increase. She had body scans of her entire system and blood work. Everything was functioning normal (heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver) Her blood work was normal (no toxins in her blood/system) It wasn't genetic or she would have showed signs of seizures prior to 18 months AND her seizure would not have lasted 2 days long. The only thing that was NOT normal was her brain but they could not fix it or tell us what went wrong!

Friday morning, we transported her to a vet in Myerstown for the day and he told us it was unlikely that she would recover but if she did she would be def and blind...I didn't care....I just wanted to save her! We took her home at 5:00pm because there was nothing more they could do for her. If there were no improvements by Sat.@ 1:00pm she would have to be put to sleep. (I didn't worry about having to put her to sleep because I really believed that she would get better)

I stayed up with her all night and at 7:14am on Sat. she passed away in my husbands arms.
NONE of the vets will admit it was the shots. They said it was a quoincidence that she just had her shots and that the shots were not even a factor that they would look at.

She was not just a dog to our family she was our baby! It really does feel like we lost a part of our family. My son says it best, "This is the worst day of my life!" Everything reminds me of her and she used to go everywhere with us. Now it is so quiet at the house. No more little feet running across the floor or the jingle of her collar. It is so painful to think it may have been a shot that did this to such a perfect little puppy.
Check out this web site before you have any more of you beloved pet’s shots done.
http://www.canine-epilepsy-guardian-angels.com/annual_vacs.htm