Bingo has his wings

Bingo, had had had a cough for about a month and it was being treated as a heart, and then also respiratory condition, but he wasn’t improving. He was due to have an x-ray today, Friday, but on Wednesday morning he was very weak and for the first time, had a fever.

I raced him to the specialist hospital where he went into the ICU and they continued to treat it as a heart condition (with fluid in his lungs and abdomen now). His specialist, who treated his AIHA, was there yesterday and after going over everything, felt this wasn’t his heart as he should have responded to the medication. He did x-rays and an ultrasound of his heart and chest which showed the heart to be fairly normal, however, it showed one of his lungs was odd and his specialist felt this was most likely a tumour in an obscure spot.

His specialist said they could try and search to see exactly what this was, but he said that he felt Bingo would not survive the testing and he was having difficulty breathing. His specialist, who knew Bingo so very well, said that if he were his dog, he would let him go.

So we did the kindest thing and, in my arms, we let him go.

I will so very much miss my silly, funny, stubborn, super-sensitive mate.

Vally