Spunky's Medical/Afterlife Care

This is my beloved Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Spunky. He was born June 20th, 2014. He's going to turn 5 months tomorrow (11/20/2014). When I first laid eyes on him, I knew it was love. You know how they say you can't define love? Well, when I saw him, and carried him the first time in my arms, I couldn't help but shed tears from pure happiness. If I recall correctly from Mulan, when the heart is overfilled with joy and emotion, some may leak from the eyes. That may not be word for word, but that describes exactly how I felt about him in that magical moment. Since then, has been a lucky go puppy up until a few days ago when he started becoming somewhat less energetic/lethargic and looking a little depressed and a little less excited for food and water (he was a big eater/drinker just 2 weeks prior). I decided to try to give it a little bit of time since the weather has started to become much cooler and perhaps he was not used to the changes... until he vomitted and in that moment I knew something was definitely wrong. He quickly became even more lethargic in a days' time on Sunday. He does have an Instagram  page, and I immediately posted onto the page in hope to get some insight..and thats when the breeder contacted corgmom and said one of Spunky's sisters just passed away 3 weeks ago from Renal Dysplasia, a terminal kidney disease if its in Stage 3 or Stage 4. Because she had it, there is a 67% chance of the littermates having it, but can be variable degree of how affected the kidneys are. His symptoms match the descriptions that I've been looking up. I am so heartbroken and have been crying everyday since learning the news. Spunky was taken to vet and he looked over spunky and said it might also possibly be gastroenteritis too, but if there's a chance of Renal Dysplasia and he suggested a couple of tests/xrays/ultrasounds which are going to cost around 500$ (not including the office visits/checkups) and much more after that if the tests come back indicative of kidney failure; it's so much money that I don't have right now for all of the suggested tests. I am setting up a gofundme page because I want to get whatever tests are necessary to find out for sure what's happening to my baby. For now he's scheduled to go in tomorrow for bloodwork and liquid therapy to help with his dehydration as that's all I can currently afford.. Please, help keep him in your thoughts and prayers.. and if you can even donate a dollar towards his medical costs, that would help out so, so much, or if possible share this post. Thank you for your time if you've taken your time to read this. I truly, truly appreciate it. I hope for the best; I'd really love to spend our first christmas together.

::UPDATE::
My heart is so heavy and hurts so much. His bloodwork brought to light our worst fears.. the prognosis of chronic kidney failure is quite evident now.. specific gravity shows no concentration of urine and xray shows slightly smaller kidneys. The elevated and low numbers indicate the chronic kidney disease, analogous to the Renal Dysplasia his sister had. He also has now developed ulceration of his gastrointestinal tract from the toxins that have built up in his blood which is resulting in some vomit with blood. With the onset of deteriorating symptoms, the vet said we should make him as comfortable until we choose to part ways as this is the most humane option and cause him the least amount of suffering.. we are making the hardest decision to let him go next Saturday (if he doesn't show a speeding up of his deterioration); he'll get to experience thanksgiving, visit his favorite outdoors sights.. experience what made him happiest. There will be pictures until then on his Instagram account , then this account will be left as a memoir to him. He just turned 5 months yesterday (11/20/2014) and this is just one of those things that demonstrate life is fleeting, and make the best of what you have because you don't know what the future holds. It's beyond heartbreaking to be making afterlife preparations for a baby; no one should ever have to do that. It's so hard, but I want to give him a proper funeral/burial despite corgmom not having a job; but leaving him at a clinic afterwards is out of the question. The total we're looking at is roughly around $1500 after everything has been taken care of. Thank you for being his followers, and all of the love he is receiving during this most difficult time. We truly appreciate the thoughts and love, and if it is possible, helping alleviate the substantial bills we've accumulated so far and the afterlife preparations after Spunky crosses that rainbow bridge...


::LAST UPDATE::

Hello everyone,
Spunky crossed the Rainbow Bridge on 11/22/2014 at 1:OOpm. We are so heartbroken to have made the most difficult decision, but I was woken up to the sounds of him throwing up quite a lot of blood and started having trouble staying standing up. He was deteriorating so much faster than expected. We really, really wanted him to be around for at least Thanksgiving, to be with family but keeping would have been completely selfish of us. We knew it in our hearts the right thing we had to do. So instead of spending the week and taking him to all of the places we wanted to; he was carried to the top of Runyon mountain that morning so he can enjoy the view one last time, and then later taken to his favorite park to spend his last moments here with us on earth. He got to meet some of the friends and family so that they could talk to him. We tried to keep smiles on our faces because we didn't want him to see us sad, but it was impossible. Right before it was time to go to the office,  it was as if he understood. He nuzzled everyone in the neck as we all carried and hugged him in our arms saying our last words and farewells and it was as if he was hugging us telling us it was ok and that he understood. (Tears are streaming down my face as I am writing this....) At the office, the vet allowed his dad to hold him in his arms until Spunky took his final breath, and held him until he crossed the Rainbow Bridge... The most amazing thing happened after we left the vet and arrived home. I'm not sure what made us look up, but it was a sky-written picture of a heart. We felt as if it were a sign to let us know that Spunky has reached doggy heaven safely (the picture is above). It gave us some peace. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to reading about our little baby Spunky, we sincerely appreciate immeasurable amount of love and support we've received and are so many messages that we got and are continuing to receive. During those times we are down, we just scroll through and read all of the comments again and again to remind ourselves we are not alone. Some of you shared your stories of loss and understanding and we're so grateful for that. We love you all so much.