Unfortunately the end of August was very hard for us all. When we got home from Cancun we noticed that Deuce was not acting himself. He was struggling to jump up on the bed and couch he wasn't eating everything in sight and he just had a sad look on his face. Since he was going to be 14 in December I assumed it was old age. I also though it might be his arthritis acting up. I made him an appointment on the first day of school. Well after the vet looking him over and listening to his tummy recommend we do an xray since she thought she heard something weird going on in his abdomen. Well after the xray we got the worst news ever. Deucie was diagnosed with cancer of the spleen. He had a huge tumor in his stomach. Given his age (13) the vet did not recommend surgery. If we did surgery it would take over a month to recuperate and even after that his life expediency would only be a couple months. Surgery seemed like it would be too much on his little body so we opted not for that. The vets prognosis without surgery was 20-25 days. We were devastated!!!!! Deuce was our first baby and we could not bear to think we had only a month left with him. The vet assured us that he was not in pain and that for the next 20 days to just love on him, feed him anything he wants and let him sleep as much as he wants. When I left the vet that day I was so heart broken and had know idea what the next few weeks would hold for our special little guy.
The hardest part was watching Deuce's strong playful body deteriorate so fast. We went to the vet on the 14th and on the 15th he had a mini seizer when he got home from walking to the mail box. That was so hard to watch. It was also hard to see him not want any food. I took Millie out on a walk and Deuce sat by the door and cried it broke my heart but I knew he didn't have the strength to walk. Spencer had a great idea to use our wagon! So we went on a walk everyday and Deuce loved sitting in the wagon.
Deuce had been such a wonderful pet to us that I wanted to do everything right the next few weeks and give him as much attention as possible but life still has to go on and I still tried to be happy and positive with the kids. Aubrey looked so cute in all her back to school clothes!
I made some fun care packages for the teachers. Thanks to Nana for helping with them!
Our neighbors foster cats so we went over to see the little babies they were so cute!
Aubrey and Mia hanging out.
Aubrey had a night swim party on Aug. 24th
So we took Carter on a date night...
Carter's fun project at school...
Poor guy had his first sick day Aug. 28th
He got better quick and we got his science kit which was fun. We got to make slime worms...
Loving all mu cuddle time with Deuce!
Saturday Aug. 31st we went to Stockton for an 80's themed Labor day party with family...
We did a lip sync concert. We only got a video of ours not a picture. Adam's family won they did ghost busters which was so funny!
It was a fun party.
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