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<title>See you soon...</title>
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<description>Dogster diary for the dog Milou*1996-2006*I love you kid</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:48:34 PDT</pubDate>
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		<title>Easter 2006...</title>
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				<pubdate>Sun, 13 May 2007 03:20:12 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Milou*1996-2006*I love you kid ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>After his first serious crisis, our lives changed a lot. Milou was getting all of our attention ever ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ After his first serious crisis, our lives changed a lot. Milou was getting all of our attention every single minute of every day and night. We were giving him his medicines, counting his breaths, giving him oxygen to help him breath easier, bringing him to the vet or call him and appreciate every moment. It was so bitter to know that this precious angel will be gone soon. So many times i was telling him how much i loved him and that i would love him forever, and be with him where he is going to be.... And he was kissing me... 
    Somedays were better! Milou was so strong! He was barking, and had the strenght to even go for long walks. And we were all so happy on those days! So happy! And when the vet had the good news, that the fluis was less, and the drugs were not harming his kidneys, those were party days!!!
    And then, it was Easter 2006, he had the most serious crisis. We were sitting in the living room and it was late at night. He started coughing again and his breathing was becoming faster and faster. We counted more than 100 breaths in a minute. We gave him lassix through his vains, but wasn't getting better. We gave nitroglycerin...but he needed hospital. That was when i think i paniced seriously. The thought that i maybe was to loose him was unbearable. 
    We went to the hospital. They started him lassix and other medicines immediatelly. I asked if he was going to die. They said he would be ok. Vets were my Gods!!! We stayed with him all night because he would be too stressed alone in the clinic and we took him to the car. The vet was coming out to exam him every two hours. He wouldn't ever  pee in the clinic so i was walking him.  
    In the morning he was better and we kept on his treatment home. The video of Milou's treatment aftr a crisis is from those days...to be continued.....]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Crisis awful times...</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/437554/diary/See_you_soon/293309</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 5 Apr 2007 04:38:39 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Milou*1996-2006*I love you kid ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>On February the first...the most awful day, until then ofcourse.
My mother called me in the middle  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ On February the first...the most awful day, until then ofcourse.
My mother called me in the middle of the night, Milou wasn't well.  I rushed as fast as the wind at my parents home and Milou wellcomed me with the familiar hugs and kisses and then starting coughing. He was breathing too fast. 100 breaths a minute. And then he almost fainted. It was time to call the vet. He said "quickly, give him a shot of lasix and  stick on him a pad of nitroglycerin. We had them all ready. I had to give him the shot. I was afraid and in panic, but...i did it. Then we were waiting , hoping, praying... After sometime Milou was better. Tired, sleeping, but his breathing was slower and he wasn't coughing. The fluid in his lungs was getting less... the other day we went to the vet and he told us things were starting to get worse. 
    It was his first crisis...the one that made me realise that i was to lose my angel soon... But i wasn't to give up the battle, neither Milou. It was a hard, unequal 6 months war we fought....to be continued....]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The &quot;quite&quot; last winter</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/437554/diary/See_you_soon/292922</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:25:46 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Milou*1996-2006*I love you kid ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>After the summer vacation and until February 2006 the situation was pretty much the same. We went to ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ After the summer vacation and until February 2006 the situation was pretty much the same. We went to the vet every week, sometimes even more often, to exam his blood, lungs and heart. He was not going to be any better... The vet was changing his treatment doses a lot, adjusting to Milou's exact situation. Ups and downs. Sometimes he had more fluid in his lungs and we needed to increase diuretics and then he had problems with his kiddneys and we needed to dicrease diuretcs. He took seven different kinds of drugs, others twice and others three times a day, but not all together... So we had to give him drugs somedays for ten times with ice cream. And that was the only treat he was allowed to have, so he was looking forward for his treatment... His diet was still so untasty. Only unsalted, boiled chicken, K/d and H/d. He didn't like that food but, he agreed to eat it. He was allowed to go only for short walks, because of his heart condition. Sometimes he wanted so much to go for a longer walk, but he shouln't get tired so he was just accepting reality. That was Milou's and our life until February 2006, when......to be continued.....]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Last vacation at the village</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/437554/diary/See_you_soon/249614</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:31:15 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Milou*1996-2006*I love you kid ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>...Two days after we arrived at the village he was in a bad shape. He didn't want to eat and was ver ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ ...Two days after we arrived at the village he was in a bad shape. He didn't want to eat and was very tired. We talked with the vet on the phone and he was pretty worried too.
       That night , returning home from a summer night out,  took him out for a short walk. My mother was there too. He went 50 metres away and stopped lookins for something. I went there to see what it was and... it was a fish some neibourgh has threw away and too much salted. He took it in his mouth and would't let go. I tried to take it from him  because it was forbitten food for him, but he was determined to eat it. I didn't want to streess him much so ... he ate it...
     The next day we were waiting for the worst to happen...Too much salt for a doggy with edema in his lungs...
     Milou, surprisilly, wake up in his best mood. He wanted to eat, to go for a walk, he was barking, he was playing. He was like nothing was wrong with him. He wasn't depressed at all. We had one and a half month, before started his treatment, to see him like that...
   We stayed at the village the whole month (August 2005). He was well. That was his last vacation at the village. We left for Athens in September and he never saw his village again...to be continued...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>First critical  month of treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/437554/diary/See_you_soon/248983</link>

				<pubdate>Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:19:39 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Milou*1996-2006*I love you kid ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>That summer was rough... Milou stared his medication. He was taking 5 different drugs 5-6 times a da ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ That summer was rough... Milou stared his medication. He was taking 5 different drugs 5-6 times a day. We started him diet which could not include salt, red meat, fish, bread, nearly everything was forbitten... He had to eat only h/d (food for dogs with heart problems), or chicken without salt.
   He lost weight and he was unhappy. He didn't like the food and had trouble in breathing. We were counting his breathing in and out all the time because it was very quick...We became his "nurses".
   It was summer and it was hot in Athens. For the whole month (July) Milou was not well. He was tired all the time, not in the mood for anything, he wanted to eat someting tasty but the doctors didn't allow that. 
   We were devostated... It was very painfull to watch him melting day by day.
We were taking him for exams every other day to watch the fluid in his lungs and have him blood tested to see how his kiddneys were going because of the drugs that were not good for his kiddneys (diuretics).
   Finally, after one month of treatment he was going better. The fluid was significantly less. But, he was still lossing weight and the kiddneys indicators were not good. 
   The doctors said that he could, by the way, travel and we took him and leave for vacation in our village...
    The trip by car  was a nightmare. It lasted 5 hours and Milou was in a bad shape. The heat (beside the aircondition) was enormous for him. When we arrived we thought he was going to die,but....
                                         ..... to be continued]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The beginning of the end...</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/437554/diary/See_you_soon/245786</link>

				<pubdate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:02:04 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Milou*1996-2006*I love you kid ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>In Easter of 2005 we were in our village (Greece) for vacation. The weather was good and wanted to g ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ In Easter of 2005 we were in our village (Greece) for vacation. The weather was good and wanted to go for a swim. I called him " Milou lets go" and as he got out of the bed he started coughing. That was the beginning of the end...
    I thought: Oh, my God, because it reminded me of my previous dog Louki, who had a heart condition and a cough. That was my big fear: that Milou is going to have a heart condition too... 
    I said to my mother that we should go to the vet when we'll return to Athens. 
   Meanwhile, Milou was like always. Full of life, running, playing. Everything looked normal. We even went to swim that day. The last swim...
   In a few days we took him to the vet and he said that he was ok, but I could't believe him. My intuition was bad...and didn't full me. We had him re-examed in another clinic, but the vet was not sure...He said: bring him back in a month when another doctor will be here to test him. 
   In a month...it was my birthday. The new vet said Milou had a very big heart and heart insuffisiency.  He had edema in his lungs too. He gave him lasix and some other drugs and said he had only a few months to live...
    It was my birthday...and i made a wish. "Please let him at least live until my next bithday"
  He died one year and 17 days after that...
   One year of strugle

                   ...to be continued]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A poem for you</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/437554/diary/See_you_soon/245509</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:07:20 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Milou*1996-2006*I love you kid ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Was originally written in greek... It is on Milous grave...
     
 Good- bye Milaki

Sleep my li ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Was originally written in greek... It is on Milous grave...
     
 Good- bye Milaki

Sleep my little angel, 
sleep my warm boy
I could't, my little doggie
heal your heart

You struggled for twelve months
just to stay a bit longer,
because you wanted so much
to give us happyiness

You were my star,
my love, my life
you left, and left
my soul empty forever

It was that morning, 
that with all your left stenght
you came and gave me 
your last kiss

After some hours we seperated
forever, you and me
your sweet, wet kiss was
your last good-bye...

I love you....
your girl]]></content:encoded>
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