Well. It's time to decide when to say goodbye to the Dowager, who is in kidney failure. The vet was wonderful about explaining exactly what's happening right now and laying out probable futures. Even with aggressive fluid therapy, requiring three days' hospitalization, the best we could expect is "maybe a year." And that, he explained, is a long shot at her advanced age.
I have some pain meds and some appetite stimulants, but I know that inside a week we'll say farewell.
