Little Amber, Back in the hospital Options

[Ann H]

Early in the morning Amber got worse by the minute, I called my daughter and told her to come over. Poor thing had done a double at work and was so tired. When she came I told her Amber had grown worse and we were going to have to take her to the vet as her little body was stiff and cold. I had her on the heating pad off and on during the night as the vet had instructed me to do, but it did no good. We could not get Amber to drink or eat after she came home and we had to force feed her but it was a struggle my husband and I couldn't get much in her.

When our 27 year old daughter rushed over she started crying so hard and flung herself into my arms and begged me not to have Amber put to sleep. She said there must be something else they could do for her baby but she did not have any more money. She looked at her dad and me with that same look that everyone had when we lost my son's Chili Bean. If I live to be 100 I hope to never see that look in my childrens eyes again.

My husband told her if there was anyway to save Amber we would pay for it so we made the 80 mile drive to the vet. We asked him if he could put her back into the hospital and try to save her life. The doctor felt it would not do much good since she was not better having just been released the day before. We told him we could not make any other decision than to try to save her so he agreed he would keep her.

So now Amber is back in the hospital with iv's again and is fighting for her life, should we have put her to sleep I just do not know. If she does not recover than my husband and I at least tried our best to help her. We hope there will not be another grave beside our Chili Bean, it has not even been 3 weeks since we lost her.

I am putting this picture on that I took of Amber last week, she looks so sick here but looks even worse now. I talked to the vet when some said I should sue the carpet cleaning company but he said there would be no way to prove thats what made her deathly sick and he would not be able to give me a letter stating that was the reason of her illness.

My husband Clair and I are just so sad, so troubled, we sit with broken hearts tonight feeling so weak and so distraught. Our daughter has cried herself to sleep at our house and we are just going to let her sleep instead of waking her up to send her home.
Ann

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