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Sadly, I have to say, my step mom didn't make it, and life support was pulled on July 14th. It was the saddest thing to witness and I hope nobody ever has to see anyone die like that. I don't want to talk about the details because I am afraid someone will feel what I feel now and have to live with the horrible memory. I knew she had left her body a while before it happened... she was long gone... her soul was probably watching as we were crying over her dying body.
None the less, this event has impacted me so much... I feel like I grew up since I watched it. I thought I wouldn't cry, because I had already said my goodbyes to her by her side on Saturday and Sunday, but I did cry, and I was big and helped my dad... he was so distraught by her passing.... but... it made me think a lot. I still have flashbacks to that hospital room, but, these flashbacks are going to make it easier for me to do the inevitable in the future.
As a veterinarian... not everything is about regular check ups, birthing, cleaning teeth, and vaccinations. Just as often as a person brings in a new puppy for evaluation of health, people bring in their sick and dying old and young dogs to be put out of their misery. Now, I know the alternative to death by lethal injections--- what my step mom had. I don't want any living creature to have to suffer the way my step mom did. And even though it will still be hard to kill a creature that is living and breathing, the thought of my step mom dying will help me do what I need to do. It doesn't matter to me that her dying of alcoholism probably won't surface in animals. Dying is dying and suffering is suffering no matter what the cause is.
I hope that eventually humans all over the world will be able to experience euthanasia instead of dying in the the slow drawn out way my step mom did. She was fortunate it only took about 15 to 30 minutes... I have heard of cases that sometimes last months or even years. Nobody should have to go through something like that.
The picture is another firework, a home firework, and I chose the picture because it dies very quickly even though it is very beautiful.
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