04/15/2026
I can’t even begin to thank everyone for the outpouring of love you all have shown me during this time. It has been beyond what I could ever imagine.
I want to update you all on what transpired yesterday evening so you all are more aware and there won’t be lingering questions.
I prayed so much yesterday for God to just take Akira home because she was howling and was only settling with me holding her. I knew she was crying out for help.
I made the decision on my own at 6pm to pack her up and carry her to the emergency vet. I asked for labs because i truly was so confused in that moment what was going on. When they returned it was not good.
Before the results could even be read the suspicion of what I carried for over THREE years was true. Akira likely had a brain mass.
For those who do not know what I’m meaning…
Three plus years ago, I noticed that Akira had a twitch. I didn’t know what it was coming from. I couldn’t put my finger on it. It wasn’t all the time—it was mainly when I was opening or closing doors. For two plus years, this went on with no other symptoms.
And then out of absolutely nowhere, Akira had a seizure.
At the time, it was just one and done, and I didn’t think anything of it. Then nine short months later, Akira had another seizure. We started trying to make sense of it and began linking the seizures to infections because Akira had a urinary tract infection—and hers was significantly bad. We thought it was affecting her kidneys because of how severe it was, especially since she had an acute kidney injury in the past.
Unbeknownst to me, Akira also had a dental infection.
In October, she had to have 22 teeth pulled—and she had her third seizure and a fourth one was shortly coming before she got medicated in December. The twitching went away as soon as she got medicated, but it returned again around March, I believe. That’s when she had what would be her fifth and final seizure, along with her final UTI.
Last night, when they did the blood work and the results came back, Akira’s potassium was 2.9, which was definitely low. And I thought to myself, okay… they can correct this.
But then we kept reading.
Her white blood cell count had gone from 14 to 56—which anyone knows is not good. Her creatinine went from 5.4 yesterday to well over 9, and I just couldn’t understand what was happening.
And then there was the word.
They told me it was likely that she had a brain mass that was cancerous.
They wanted to do a UA just to make sure there was absolutely nothing else they could do. But during the process of getting that UA, they found not one, not two—but three major masses on her liver. They told me it was just a matter of time before they would rupture… and that Akira would not survive.
And in that moment—that split second—I made the choice to give Akira the biggest, most selfless gift of all… the greatest gift and my last act of love.
I got to talk to her. I told her all about Jesus. I told her about her daddy, and her bio dad Drift, all of her siblings, and all of the ones who went before her—Bolt, Jax, little Zoe (oh how she loved Zoe… and Akira adored her), Jasper, the puppies, Scoob… all of them.
But most of all… Jeffery.
I knew he was waiting for her. For almost two weeks, I’ve had this image in my head of Jeffery being reunited with Akira.
I remember when they first met. I told him, “If Akira doesn’t like you, then this isn’t going to work.”
And she chased him around for two hours straight… and then she chose him. From that moment on, she chose him just as much as I did—and that was all I needed to know.
I just want to thank each and every one of you for loving my girl the way that I loved her, and for praying for us through all of this.
It means more than I could ever put into words.
