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2020 Gets Personal
5 years ago
Be true to whatever
I don't make many journal posts often. Hell, there's a bunch of art I've been meaning to post but it just seems like I've never had time for it.
I'm still reeling from the news and it's put me out of sorts all morning over it. Last night, I learned that our oldest dog, a corgi, is suffering from liver cancer. She'd been retaining fluid in her abdomen since around Thanksgiving. The vets drained a liter of fluid from her belly before her ultrasound. According to the images, there isn't much of her liver left. The cancer hasn't spread to other organs, but unless we continually take her in for drainage, she only has a couple of weeks left.
It's not the first time I've lost a pet. I've said goodbye to cats and a dog, but this seems so...unfair. She just turned 11. Old, I know, but corgis typically live until around 12 to 14 years. And with how rapidly it set on, no one in my family was quite ready for this. We've had her since just before I finished high school, and she was always there to greet me when I came home from college on weekends.
She's active and eating now that the pressure's been relieved, and we have medication that'll help her liver process things, but she's on borrowed time. I've never been particularly religious, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't praying for her meds to carry her through one last Christmas. Between this, my grandfather's stroke over the summer, my family's catering company in the tank because of the lockdowns, and being snubbed for every promotion I've applied for at my second job without explanation well...
...I don't think that anyone would blame me if 2020 were to manifest itself as a person and I used it for some Punisher-style target practice.
I'm still reeling from the news and it's put me out of sorts all morning over it. Last night, I learned that our oldest dog, a corgi, is suffering from liver cancer. She'd been retaining fluid in her abdomen since around Thanksgiving. The vets drained a liter of fluid from her belly before her ultrasound. According to the images, there isn't much of her liver left. The cancer hasn't spread to other organs, but unless we continually take her in for drainage, she only has a couple of weeks left.
It's not the first time I've lost a pet. I've said goodbye to cats and a dog, but this seems so...unfair. She just turned 11. Old, I know, but corgis typically live until around 12 to 14 years. And with how rapidly it set on, no one in my family was quite ready for this. We've had her since just before I finished high school, and she was always there to greet me when I came home from college on weekends.
She's active and eating now that the pressure's been relieved, and we have medication that'll help her liver process things, but she's on borrowed time. I've never been particularly religious, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't praying for her meds to carry her through one last Christmas. Between this, my grandfather's stroke over the summer, my family's catering company in the tank because of the lockdowns, and being snubbed for every promotion I've applied for at my second job without explanation well...
...I don't think that anyone would blame me if 2020 were to manifest itself as a person and I used it for some Punisher-style target practice.
Do not
Blame you in the slightest for wanting to do awful things to a humanization of 2020. I was just thinking the same thing recently x3
In all seriousness, fuck this year and I hope things turn out for you ok in the end.. <3
as for 2020, this year can go f--k itself
A friend of ours had a big, friendly chocolate lab named Otto. His heart gave out at age 9 for no reason.
I can see why elves hate living for so long.