January 8, 2025 • 7 mins
Chelsea's family got some really sad news about her dog Shelby over the weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chelse was in here on Monday, and you've been having
a tough couple of days here.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, I hope I don't cry this whole time.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're already come.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I I'm just you're.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Among people that cry over their animals, So it's okay.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm very I've been very emotional the past couple of days.
So thank you guys for putting up with me. But yeah,
so my dog's Shelby.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I've had her.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
So she started off as my sister and brother in
law's dog. And then during COVID, I live alone and
you couldn't really see anyone and I wanted a companion,
so she came and stayed with me and she just
never left. We became like little soulmates and we're bonded.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
And at one point, because your sister had a baby,
it was very tough to I mean, you love your
family pet, but when there's a new boor and there's
a lot of work.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Well and if there's somewhere that that you know, if
it's just as easy to go two houses.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Over, sure after you have your new baby?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Why now?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
And yeah, she had two kids at that point, moved
in with me for a little bit and then she'll
be just she never left and she was and at
that point and enjoyed like a quieter home, which I
could give her. And we see them all the time
and we're just, you know, one big family. So I've
had her since twenty twenty. And on Sunday, it was
like a completely normal day.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
She was fine. We went for a walk Sunday before
the Monday you didn't come in.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, Sunday afternoon. I mean we went for like a
walk around the block and she was her perky, normal self.
And when we got home, there was something off. And
she's she's a big napper. She loves sleeping, and she
couldn't get settled. She was just not comfortable at all,
very moving her head around and something just wasn't right.
(01:39):
And then she had thrown up a couple times and
there was there was a little bit of blood and
I was texting my mom, like, I something's not right
with her. So we took her in to the animal hospital.
And by the time we took her, she couldn't walk
really at that point, and so she was in rough shape.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And there they took her.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
In immediately and the nurse had come back originally and
it seemed very positive, like we're not really seeing much
of anything to be super concerned about, and so we're
going to bring her back in the room with you
so that she's not back where she doesn't need to be.
Doctor came in. She was in shock. No, no, no,
(02:23):
Shelby was in She was in really really rough shape
and they had to do more extensive tests and that
her gums were white.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Do we go into shock because we're in pain? Yes,
And you don't.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Your oxygen is not flowing through the body the way
that it's supposed to.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Dogs have no way of reasoning. They know something's not right,
but you can't say, here's what's wrong with the person.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well, it turns out she has a cancerous lump on
her kidney, and we can't do surgery, like it's just
it's too big at this point, it's too close to
some of her glands that you just and I don't
want to her through that. So I don't know how
much time I have left with her, but I am
(03:06):
trying to keep her comfortable.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
She was able to come home that night, thank god.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
She was so drugged up and it was just really
sad to watch, but she was able to come home,
which I was very thankful for. I talked to hervet
yesterday and she said, well, you know, I can't give.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You a timeline of anything.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It could everyone's saying it could be a few days,
it could be maybe you get a few months out
of her if she's responding really well to treatment. And
she has had a good couple of days for her.
She played with a toy yesterday and like destroyed it,
and which is her normal fun self.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And so she so is she taking medicine specifically for.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
This yeh, for pain for pain, pain for pain control,
and so that she hopefully doesn't have the internal bleeding
that she had that was causing her so much pain.
She had like something on the mass I guess like
ruptured which was causing this, and it can come out
of nowhere and it can happen again at any.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Time, and they can't. I'm not just another question that
they can't do radiation or anything like that, like localized
radiation or no.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I was doing the same thing and I it's funny
because I stopped. So Chelsea sent us and in the
group text, I'm at the animal hospital. I don't know
what's going on. I don't know if I'll be in tomorrow.
And this is just how I respond to everything. I'm like, okay, well,
well a medical plan will be decided and everything will
be fine, and then I've got all these other things
I'm gonna say, and I kind of like pump the
brakes on myself. But then Jake texted me directly and
(04:25):
he's like, it's really bad because I just automatically want
to fight, like I just saw all fight and then like, Nope,
it's not acceptable because these are the texts I didn't send. Okay,
well you'll get a second opinion. Okay, well, but this
will be the next thing that you do. And like
sometimes you.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Have to know when we're just doing paliative care, keeping
her very comfortable and just enjoying as much time as that,
it's all you can do. Yeah, it's the worst.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I don't know how to respond anymore because it's the worst.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It is very painful.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I know it is.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Warren and I were talking about it, and we've been
through it many times. We've lost, you know, cats that
we've had for seventeen years, I mean, because that's we
our animals for the span of other lives, and you know,
we know that when we lose one, we know how
sad we're going to be. But when we come back home,
we still have you know, seventeen other cats and each other,
(05:22):
and it's like, you know, it's just the two of
them in the house, so that emptiness is going to
be even more magnified.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It's it's different when you just have the two of you.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
But the other thing that Jay had said in the
group text to Chelsea and I was going to respond back,
I was like, absolutely do that. Jay was like, do
you need my MX, And I'm like, yep, get it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Take his ax. We have the best surgery. Yeah, get
the single suite.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Listen. I mean, and I've told you this before, but
I mean in the end, I mean, Mario was really
he was old. He was old and beat cancer, you know,
but he just at some at some point, you just know,
you go every day to going no, but you just know,
like at some point you don't want to see your animals.
Everything about ourselves we make about our own pain, about
(06:09):
our own and I always talk to tell the story
about how you know, I know I watched my girl
take Mario out five times a day. Carry this over
sixty pound dog out. Yeah, pick I mean pick him up,
put his legs down. Mean, the stuff she had to
do just to get that dog so you wouldn't have
to take three steps. But all the carpets we had
to put down in the house because he couldn't walk
on a hardwood floor. And the best day of his
(06:30):
life was the day that he was going to, you know,
across the Rainbow bridge because he because he was reduced,
he was ready, ready. And you'll know, you'll.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Just know, I hope, so you'll know I find you.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You won't do something prematurely. You will know, Yeah, it
just happens. We only get that happens.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You'll know we only get so much time with them,
you know, we just only do so well.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Keep good thoughts out for Yeah, hopefully we get some more.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
That's all we're time, that's all we're thinking it about.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, here's bon Jovi. I don't know what else to do.
One hundred point three w When I see
Chelse was in here on Monday, and you've been having
a tough couple of days here.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, I hope I don't cry this whole time.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're already come.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I I'm just you're.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Among people that cry over their animals, So it's okay.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm very I've been very emotional the past couple of days.
So thank you guys for putting up with me. But yeah,
so my dog's Shelby.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I've had her.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
So she started off as my sister and brother in
law's dog. And then during COVID, I live alone and
you couldn't really see anyone and I wanted a companion,
so she came and stayed with me and she just
never left. We became like little soulmates and we're bonded.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
And at one point, because your sister had a baby,
it was very tough to I mean, you love your
family pet, but when there's a new boor and there's
a lot of work.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Well and if there's somewhere that that you know, if
it's just as easy to go two houses.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Over, sure after you have your new baby?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Why now?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
And yeah, she had two kids at that point, moved
in with me for a little bit and then she'll
be just she never left and she was and at
that point and enjoyed like a quieter home, which I
could give her. And we see them all the time
and we're just, you know, one big family. So I've
had her since twenty twenty. And on Sunday, it was
like a completely normal day.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
She was fine. We went for a walk Sunday before
the Monday you didn't come in.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, Sunday afternoon. I mean we went for like a
walk around the block and she was her perky, normal self.
And when we got home, there was something off. And
she's she's a big napper. She loves sleeping, and she
couldn't get settled. She was just not comfortable at all,
very moving her head around and something just wasn't right.
(01:39):
And then she had thrown up a couple times and
there was there was a little bit of blood and
I was texting my mom, like, I something's not right
with her. So we took her in to the animal hospital.
And by the time we took her, she couldn't walk
really at that point, and so she was in rough shape.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And there they took her.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
In immediately and the nurse had come back originally and
it seemed very positive, like we're not really seeing much
of anything to be super concerned about, and so we're
going to bring her back in the room with you
so that she's not back where she doesn't need to be.
Doctor came in. She was in shock. No, no, no,
(02:23):
Shelby was in She was in really really rough shape
and they had to do more extensive tests and that
her gums were white.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Do we go into shock because we're in pain? Yes,
And you don't.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Your oxygen is not flowing through the body the way
that it's supposed to.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Dogs have no way of reasoning. They know something's not right,
but you can't say, here's what's wrong with the person.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well, it turns out she has a cancerous lump on
her kidney, and we can't do surgery, like it's just
it's too big at this point, it's too close to
some of her glands that you just and I don't
want to her through that. So I don't know how
much time I have left with her, but I am
(03:06):
trying to keep her comfortable.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
She was able to come home that night, thank god.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
She was so drugged up and it was just really
sad to watch, but she was able to come home,
which I was very thankful for. I talked to hervet
yesterday and she said, well, you know, I can't give.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You a timeline of anything.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It could everyone's saying it could be a few days,
it could be maybe you get a few months out
of her if she's responding really well to treatment. And
she has had a good couple of days for her.
She played with a toy yesterday and like destroyed it,
and which is her normal fun self.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And so she so is she taking medicine specifically for.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
This yeh, for pain for pain, pain for pain control,
and so that she hopefully doesn't have the internal bleeding
that she had that was causing her so much pain.
She had like something on the mass I guess like
ruptured which was causing this, and it can come out
of nowhere and it can happen again at any.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Time, and they can't. I'm not just another question that
they can't do radiation or anything like that, like localized
radiation or no.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I was doing the same thing and I it's funny
because I stopped. So Chelsea sent us and in the
group text, I'm at the animal hospital. I don't know
what's going on. I don't know if I'll be in tomorrow.
And this is just how I respond to everything. I'm like, okay, well,
well a medical plan will be decided and everything will
be fine, and then I've got all these other things
I'm gonna say, and I kind of like pump the
brakes on myself. But then Jake texted me directly and
(04:25):
he's like, it's really bad because I just automatically want
to fight, like I just saw all fight and then like, Nope,
it's not acceptable because these are the texts I didn't send. Okay,
well you'll get a second opinion. Okay, well, but this
will be the next thing that you do. And like
sometimes you.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Have to know when we're just doing paliative care, keeping
her very comfortable and just enjoying as much time as that,
it's all you can do. Yeah, it's the worst.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I don't know how to respond anymore because it's the worst.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It is very painful.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I know it is.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Warren and I were talking about it, and we've been
through it many times. We've lost, you know, cats that
we've had for seventeen years, I mean, because that's we
our animals for the span of other lives, and you know,
we know that when we lose one, we know how
sad we're going to be. But when we come back home,
we still have you know, seventeen other cats and each other,
(05:22):
and it's like, you know, it's just the two of
them in the house, so that emptiness is going to
be even more magnified.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It's it's different when you just have the two of you.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
But the other thing that Jay had said in the
group text to Chelsea and I was going to respond back,
I was like, absolutely do that. Jay was like, do
you need my MX, And I'm like, yep, get it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Take his ax. We have the best surgery. Yeah, get
the single suite.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Listen. I mean, and I've told you this before, but
I mean in the end, I mean, Mario was really
he was old. He was old and beat cancer, you know,
but he just at some at some point, you just know,
you go every day to going no, but you just know,
like at some point you don't want to see your animals.
Everything about ourselves we make about our own pain, about
(06:09):
our own and I always talk to tell the story
about how you know, I know I watched my girl
take Mario out five times a day. Carry this over
sixty pound dog out. Yeah, pick I mean pick him up,
put his legs down. Mean, the stuff she had to
do just to get that dog so you wouldn't have
to take three steps. But all the carpets we had
to put down in the house because he couldn't walk
on a hardwood floor. And the best day of his
(06:30):
life was the day that he was going to, you know,
across the Rainbow bridge because he because he was reduced,
he was ready, ready. And you'll know, you'll.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Just know, I hope, so you'll know I find you.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You won't do something prematurely. You will know, Yeah, it
just happens. We only get that happens.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You'll know we only get so much time with them,
you know, we just only do so well.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Keep good thoughts out for Yeah, hopefully we get some more.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
That's all we're time, that's all we're thinking it about.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, here's bon Jovi. I don't know what else to do.
One hundred point three w When I see
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