Lizzie
Hannah
About 15 minutes after Craig left the store they called saying Lizzie collapsed and was on life support. They wanted Craig to decided what they should do with her. Craig called me and told me that Lizzie was dead. I didn't quite understand what he was saying because how could she be dead when we took her to be groomed. Lizzie has been to the same groomers ever since she was a puppy. Lizzie was also in good health. She was jumping and playing with Max this morning.
Max (as a puppy, he's 1 now)
I met Craig in the veterinary hospital inside of the groomers. We waited for the vet to come into the room. They had Lizzie in the next room. You could see in the small window the staff was still performing CPR on her. We first met with the manager from the store. His first words to us was "how are you guys?" I wanted to reach over and punch him. How the heck to you think I am? He told us they would pay for anything we wanted to help with Lizzie. Shortly afterwards the veterinarian arrived and advised us that our chances of Lizzie pulling through was not good. Lizzie was down 25-30 minutes. So we went ahead and told them to stop CPR. They wanted to know what we should do with the body. We told them to hold on for a few minutes we had to talk with Ashlee to see what she wanted to do.
Here is the story about Ashlee and Lizzie. A friend of mine had some puppies. Ashlee wanted one of her puppies real bad. So when Ashlee was 11 she babysat and earned $400 so she could buy this puppy from my friend. So Lizzie was Ashlee's baby.
Craig and I drove to Ashlee's school and pulled her out. Ashlee at first was worried she was in trouble. We didn't say anything until we got outside. Craig went ahead and told Ashlee what had happened. Poor Ashlee just broke down into tears. My heart was breaking seeing my baby girl hurt so bad.
We took Ashlee back to the groomers to see Lizzie. When they brought Lizzie into the room Ashlee lost it again. Sobbing over her body hysterically. Talk about my heart breaking again and I felt so helpless.
We said our final goodbyes and took Ashlee home. I just told Ashlee to hang out and take it easy. A few minutes later I heard Craig on the phone with Cody. Just as I was getting ready to to tell Craig not to tell Cody, it was too late, Craig spilt the beans. Craig said on the other end of the phone there was silence. So off to Cody's school to get him. He was in tears!
We waited for Preston to come home from school to tell him. Preston arrived and Craig told him what happened. Preston told Craig he was lying. Preston began yelling for Lizzie. Preston ran outside asking me were Lizzie was. I told him and the tears began to fall.
The neat thing about this whole thing is my children do care for each other. When we were at Cody's school Ashlee came with me. When she saw Cody they embraced each other. Then when Preston found out what happened Ashlee came outside and gave him a hug and said "come here buddy" Then at one time and of course I didn't have my camera I saw all three of them hugging. Ashlee was hugging Cody and then Preston hugging Ashlee. What a priceless moment for a mother to see her children coming together in bad times.
Lizzie we love and will miss you!
5 comments:
Sorry sorry sorry. I know we will miss her. It was a rough day. And to top it off, on the way home from Petsmart my windshield cracked right across the drivers vision area....
Sorry to hear about Lizzie. Our prayers are with you all. Hang in there.
Oh that is so sad. Did you find out what the cause was?
I'm am so sorry to hear about your Lizzie. My heart goes out to you all.
we are waiting for an autopsy. that should take any were from 24 hours to a week. Craig and I think she was strangled. Craig noticed when he left her collar was too tight, but didn't go back to tell them, we asumed they would have caught it and fixed it...never asume again..
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