11/23/2020
Friends-
It’s Chewy’s Mom (Maura) and I am writing a message that I didn’t think I would have to write for years to come.
With a broken heart, I must let you know that Chewy crossed the rainbow bridge yesterday (Sunday, 11/22). It was very sudden and not at all the expected outcome of what started last Thursday night.
Last Friday was Chewy’s 7 Year Adoptaversary and we planned to celebrate with a playdate with Nigella Pawson and Uncle Robbie and Uncle Dave and of course, pizza for dinner. Chewy started having breathing problems Thursday night and was not really himself when he woke up Friday morning. We decided to lay low and spent the day with some walks to a park where he enjoyed lounging in the sunshine and people/squirrel watching.
Chewy wasn’t his over-exuberant self, he was lethargic and not eating and Saturday night the breathing troubles resurfaced, worse than Thursday night. I knew we would go to the emergency vet in the morning.
Sunday morning we went for a walk and he wanted to stay outside- he saw some of his favorite people in the park and then he took a long nap on our patio while I made arrangements to go to the emergency vet-- everything is very different in these Covid times.
Never did I expect that I wouldn’t see my beautiful boy alive again when I dropped him off to be examined-- as it turns out, Chewy’s heart was surrounded by fluid and the fluid had started to enter his stomach as well. The cause is more than likely cancer but we won’t know for sure because my poor boy didn’t make it through the procedure to remove the fluid from around his heart.
My sweet, beautiful, quirky boy was taken from me so quickly and I am sadder than I can put into words. I only had 7 years with Chewy and it’s not fair that we didn’t get to have the rest of the adventures, walks and talks that we had planned.
When I started this page in July 2014, it was to have a place to store all of my memories with Chewy- something I would have to look back on and I am very grateful that it came to be a place that Chewy’s friends could keep up with his follies as well. I loved being his social media manager, even though he let me know when I wasn’t doing the job up to his standards. I am so glad that I have this place to look back and see all of the amazing times we spent together and I will continue to hear his voice tell the stories.
I always kept myself behind the scenes on Chewy’s page, and I loved knowing that he had so many people enjoying his stories. If you have a dog of your own, take them on a longer walk, give some extra butt scratches, or treat them to pizza tonight-- Chewy would appreciate that.
xoxo
Rest in Peace Chewy
3/23/2013- 11/22/2020
