Molly

Alright, I know it has been a while and a few of you have been on me to update this blog. I have been avoiding posting anything because I didn't want to post the blog about Molly. Anyways, here I go - from Eric's email, many of you already saw: Just after noon today (September 12th), Molly passed away from pancreatitis and renal (kidney) failure. We first noticed something was wrong on Tuesday, when it looked like she peed blood. We took her straight to the vet thinking she probably had a really bad urinary tract infection. They took a urine culture and sent it to the lab, and prescribed an antibiotic for her probable infection. While at home that night after dinner, she threw up and then continued throwing up throughout the night. We took her to the vet first-thing the following morning. After a blood test, they found her values were extremely abnormal and diagnosed that her kidney was only working at about 25%. They put her on an IV and began treating her for renal failure. When they took another blood sample the following day (Thursday), her values had gotten worse, but they also found that she had pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas). They began treating her for that as well in hopes that the pancreatitis was actually skewing her blood values. Sadly, the treatments failed to bring little Molly back to health and she passed away with us and her favorite frisbee by her side.
We are really, really going to miss her. She was an amazingly smart, athletic, loving dog and our best friend. It's going to be very difficult to get passed the fact that she will no longer be following us around everywhere we go, helping us in the yard, going out on the boat, saluting for treats, and giving us that goofy howl and wagging tail, followed by tons of kisses every time we come through the door.