Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia: Not my dog’s best friend

So–there’s no Monday post up as there usually is on MidLifeBloggers. Well, there’s this, but it’s definitely a ByJane, so it doesn’t count (yeah, there is a method to my madness–you haven’t discovered it yet???).

My beloved Molly is VERY VERY VERY SICK. Right now, she’s getting a blood transfusion. The vet hopes that will buy enough time for the meds to start working. She has something called Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia (IMHA). Sounds grotesque, and it sort of is. It’s an autoimmune disease in which the body stops recognizing the red blood cells as good and attacks them. And destroys them. And without red blood cells, you die–end of story. It came on suddenly (as IMHA does) and without warning on Saturday. When I took her to the vet on Sunday, her red blood cell count was 17%. Normal is 37-55. This morning, it was 11, and thus the reason for last ditch transfusion.

IMHA is not that uncommon. Sometimes it’s caused by an underlying disease (which Molly doesn’t seem to have). Most of the time, it’s just spontaneous. Statistically, it happens more often to females in the 6-7 years of age range. That’s Molly. It also happens more to poodles. That’s half of Molly.

The symptoms are not particularly cleancut. Molly was kinda funny-ish on Saturday morning, but was fine after a bit. She ate, walked, played, etc etc etc. We went to friends for dinner, and maybe she was a bit more subdued, but nothing that alarmed me. When we got home about 7:30, she was tenuous jumping out of the car, but again nothing that alarmed me. Normally, when she jumps out of the car, she runs right over to the grass to pee. She didn’t this time. Instead she just flopped down on her side, like she was taking in the sun. But it was night. And cold. And that did alarm me.

I carried her into the house and she spent the rest of the evening on the sofa with me. Normal. But she refused her beloved Greenie. Not normal. I examined her all over and couldn’t find anything untoward. So I left her on the sofa when I went to bed. About twenty minutes later, she came in and jumped up on the bed. Normal. Then promptly fell backwards on to the floor. Not normal. I cuddled her for a while, brought her back onto the bed and fell asleep. Sometime in the middle of the night, she got off the bed and in the morning when I got up, she was just lying kinda calmly on the floor. I tried to take her out, but she wouldn’t get up. I’m fairly good about human diseases and what’s serious and what’s not. I’m a dunce when it comes to dogs. Maybe she had doggie flu. Maybe she just needed a day or two to get over it.

This was Easter Sunday and her usual vet is closed on Sunday. Their weekend emergencies are handled by a clinic in Sacramento, miles away. Was this serious enough to traipse all the way into the city? I didn’t know. Some friends said yes. And then I remembered driving by a local vet’s that I thought maybe had 24/7 emergency services. I looked them up–Bradshaw Veterinary Clinic–and they gave me an immediately appointment. Before I took her over there, I put her down on the grass to pee. She promptly fell over again.

I want to blow Bradshaw’s horn a bit because if Molly lives, it will be thanks to them There are TWENTYONE vets on staff there and probably an equal number of licensed vet techs. And no, it’s no more expensive than where she’s gone in the past. Fortunately, Molly has pet insurance (yeah, yeah, I know–but I’ve been down this road before with my Yorkie, so I got it for Molly the day I brought her home).

If you’re the praying sort, or the meditating sort, or just the sort who will think good thoughts for a little dog who means the world to me–please do.

Updated 4/9/10:

Molly came home last night with a bagful of pills.  Her red blood cell count yesterday was 19.  Not great, but stable and will, we hope, improve.  She was in the hospital four nights total.  They did all sorts of tests and xrays and ultra sound to see if there was a disease that was causing the IMHA.  The good news is: nope, it’s just a fluke.  However, considering that exactly four years ago (April of ’06) she ended up in the hospital with what is essentially the opposite of IMHA–her platelets were being destroyed then, not her RBCs–I’m wondering if anyone is doing research on these autoimmune diseases.  It just seems too much of a coincidence.

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers and concern.  It really meant a lot to me–and, since she’s on the mend–to Molly as well.

Tagged as: molly, pets

  • Tammy

    My 9 year old Boston Terrier, Sweetums, was diagnosed with this on Saturday. I too thought she had something else wrong with her. It started suddenly on Friday so we took her to the vet on Saturday. Her count was only 12% when we had her transfused. The first half brought her to 18% so they did the second half and it brought her to 30%. She came home with us on Sunday and ended up back in the hospital on Monday. They checked her counts every 12 hours and yesterday at 4pm she was back at 14%. We took her home and as of this morning she is still hanging in there. This is so hard to deal with because she was so happy and healthy on Friday Morning and just got weak throughout the day. She still won’t eat but is at least drinking water. We know she doesn’t have much time left since she lost half the red blood cells in 2 days time. My son and I are keeping her comfortable. The good thing is that she is not in any pain right now and is still breathing ok.

    • http://midlifebloggers.com janegassner

      Maybe she’ll pull through. Let us know….

  • Jeannette Rivera

    My nikki is still living but i got bad news she needs more help and i just dont have the money am giving her b 12 liver rice and alot of love she is only 6 mo sad i dont want her to go i wish i knew someone that can have her and that they can pay for her meds pray plz ty

  • Kelly

    My dog Nicky-Lynn just died on Monday from Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia. She just got sick so suddenly and had blood in urine, and became lethargic. She was hospitalized for 4 1/2 days treated with medications, IV’s , etc, and blood count dropped down to 17. She also had seizures, and could not walk or go out to potty with out having her back legs give out, and have a seizure. She was a Shih-Tzu/Yorkie mix, and only 6 1/2 years old. The love of my life. We had to make the horrible decision to put her to sleep, she could not even get up and walk around anymore. They said she could have a blood transfusion, but didn’t think it would save her. This disease bothers me because she was a very healthy, happy dog. She loved every minute of her life, and got two walks a day. I hope some day they can study and prevent this disease. It is taking our babies away from us too soon.

    • Jane Gassner

      Kelly,
      I’m so sorry about Nicky-Lynn. IMHA is such a devastating disease. Sometimes it’s triggered by vaccinations–was that the case with Nicky-Lynn? It was not with my Molly; hers came up spontaneously. She did have a blood transfusion–did you know there are donor dogs?!–but it was touch and go the whole way.

    • Aaron

      Your story sounds exactly like mine. My dog passed away at 6:00 this morning. He fought the disease for two weeks, but this morning, got a blood clot in his lung and stopped breathing. He had already had 2 strokes and his back legs just wouldn’t hold him. He was my best friend, and we did all we could for him he was on several immune suppresents as well as blood thinners and antibiotics. The onset was so sudden and the transformation during his sickness was heart breaking to see. May both our dogs rest in peace, and i am sorry for your loss.

      • http://midlifebloggers.com janegassner

        It’s a vicious disease, Aaron. I know what you mean about your dog being your best friend. Molly was that for me as well. I miss her still.

        • Aaron

          Thank you for your reply Jane, and kind words Your Molly looks like a beautiful dog and i am sorry for you losing her. The hardest thing for me to come to terms with is the fact that i never could get an answer about the cause of the disease. In the 2 week battle my puppy had with IMHA, and after all the blood test and ultrasounds the vets could only deem it as primary because they couldn’t find anything that triggered it.

  • Luciana

    My yorkie Bam-Bam just died 10 days ago at 12 years old in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started with very yellow urine, drinking more water than usual and peeing a lot. As I just started giving him Cosequin, I thought his urine color was due to this. I waited 2 weeks, and as it didnt change, I stopped giving Cosequin. After a week his urine was still very yellow. I took him to the vet, and they did blood test. He was anemic, with low platelets count, as well as an hepatic problem. He had yellow skin, eyes, and they told me this was a serous disease to get a ecography as soon as possible. The ecography didn’t show any tumor or anything bad, the vet said he had colageohepatitis.They told me to feed him with hepatic royal canin, as well as his usual grilled chicken, apples.
    I took him to the vet everyday for a month, they gave him corticoids and other drug call” biletan” for hepatic problems.
    He was eating very well, he still fight with my other yorkie over food, he jumped, run…and the yellow urine, skin, eyes was gone. They repetaed his blood tests, and he was doing much better from the hepatic problem, but he still had low platelets count. The vet told me not to worry, that he will be fine. They said it was an auto inmmune disease, but they never explained well what he had….. after a week, one day he started having diarrhea and vomiting, we took him to the vet and they said his heart was good, that he will be fine….. 30 minutes after he died on my arms, he was sleeping and just stop breathing.
    My heart is broken, he gave me and my family so much love, tenderness, and happiness. I feel guilty for not have taking him to other vet, or even to the U.S where they have more advanced equipment….He looked fine, we never thought he was going to leave us so soon….we miss our Bambi everyday,and my other yorkie Rony is missing him and crying everyday. He is 13 years old, and the one that was always weaker, with heart problems… I only pray God will let him stay with us some more years.
    I hope this story can help to save other doggies. It is important to get a diagnosed and to see that blood tests are improving…..
    Love, Luciana.

    • Jane Gassner

      Luciana,
      My heart goes out to you dealing with the death of Bam Bam. Although Molly lived through her IMHA, she died quite suddenly in the vet’s office last August. One minute she was there, her perky self and the next minute, her heart stopped.

      That’s the bad news of loving these animals as we do; our hearts break when they die which, inevitably, happens before we do. The good news is that they are our loves, our companions, our best friends while we have them.

      I would urge you not to blame yourself for not getting Bam Bam to a vet who might have been able to figure out what it was. IMHA is pretty insidious and is not the typical thing vets see in their practices. We all just do the best that we can.

      Jane

      • Luciana

        Thank you so much for your words Jane. I am sure you also miss your Molly. It is so hard to go through this time. I can only think of Bam Bam and all the times I spent with him. I hope I will feel better over time…now it is only 10 days. Some people don’t understand how we can love our doggies so much, I know I will always have Bam Bam in my heart. I never heard about IMHA before, and as I am ready many blogs, I am thinking this is what Bambi had….. Thanks again Jane, all my love to you and your family.

      • Patti

        Jane, Thank you so much for sharing your story about Molly. I was on vacation a couple of weeks ago when my dog sitter called to ask if it was unusual for my 9 year old teacup poodle not to eat. I told her that Bonaparte might not eat for a couple of days because I was gone. I told her to give him his favorite food—chicken. One day later, 8:00 in the morning, she scooped him up and took him to our Vet. Exact same symptoms as Molly. Bonaparte went in to cardiac arrest and the Doctor brought him back. They gave him a blood transfusion (a great dane, Angus, was the donor) and that stabilized him for a short while. Bonaparte was then moved to the emergency clinic for more testing but he went in to cardiac arrest again and I was told to let him go. A total of 6 hours had passed and he died. My two Doctors said the same thing–perhaps an underlying disease. We will never know. You have given my some comfort as I try to relive the days before I left looking for symptoms and not finding any. Thank you so much for sharing your story. Molly and Bonaparte hopefully are running around in Heaven together!!!

  • Sandra 140209

    So sad to hear the stories and just wondering how the dogs are going that got through IMHA. I also thought I would tell my story about what happened to our little poodle, Ralphie. I see some of the blogs are over a year old now but I googled Hemolytic Anemia and this is what came up and thought I would take the chance that maybe some progress has been made on this horrible disease and maybe my story could help and that it reaches someone.
    Our little Poodle, Ralphie, who was 3 1/2 years old died suddenly on Sunday 04 11 2012 just with the same lead up and symptons as Molly, Lily and Meeka.
    On Thursday 1st Nov 12 Ralphie was quiet but we are moving and we thought he was pining that all his familiar things were not there after nearly his whole life surrounded by what he is used to. He ate his dinner that night and next morning was up and about but we thought he seem tentative but then he in the next minute would run up the stairs or down to the beach so thought we were imaging it and he was fine. He hung around us working in the garage and was anxious to get in the car, albeit a bit slow but not that it was too obvious. He hadn’t wanted to eat breakfast, but some days he did that for no reason. Layed about all day but ate no dinner that night. Kept wanting to go under the bed to sleep. We have a kitty litter on verandah as we live in a unit and on the Friday night he got up twice to use it and in the morning noticed the urine drops were a greeny colour. Took him to the Vet that morning and told her all the symptoms I had noticed. She said his heart was strong, he didn’t appear to have any pain when she pushed and proded him and he was not dehydrated even though he hadn’t drunk water for a couple of days but we couldn’t be sure of that he hadn’t. He wasn’t in pain and he was still walking but slowly. The vet asked if I had checked for ticks, had he vomited, but nothing like that had occurred. The Vet said she thought it was an infection and gave me antibiotics which I started on him straight away. Sunday morning 4th Nov he came and look up at the bed but couldn’t jump up. We helped him up but he jumped straight down and went under the bed. He did seem disorientated and we now know that was from a lack of oxygen from the loss of red blood cells.
    Being a Sunday we went up to the Emergency Vet at Carrara on the Gold Coast and they told me we had a very very sick little dog. They did blood tests and told us that he could have a number of things (words were too long to remember except Hemolyptic). They said he virtually had no red blood cells left. He told us they could do a blood transfusion but said he may not pull through and we knew by this stage he was nearly gone. From when he spoke to us within half an hour he was fading rapidly and within the hour he had died.
    It was just devastating and I still wonder if the Vet on the Saturday had suggested a blood test if we could have saved him. Maybe I should have pushed the issue further but even though we have had many poodles through our lives, nothing like this has ever confronted us. I now feel that the greeny urine colour should have been a bit of an alarm for the first Vet we saw. I feel very guilty that I should have acted quicker.
    10 days previous to the first symptoms, Ralphie had had his yearly needle and his heart worm tablet six days previous.
    I have gone over everything to find out if I did anything wrong or if he ate something different or if there was a situation that we could have kept him out of.
    So glad that I found this site because at least it has shown us that there are other dogs out there who have similar symptons that just hit so hard.
    We just miss him so much and at 3 1/2 it is so young; he was just starting to get his wonderful personality and could read my husband and I like a book, which deep down we found so appealing and loving.
    Kind wishes
    Sandra

    • MidLifeBloggers

      Sandra,

      I’m so sorry to hear about Ralphie. Molly died recently so I am right in the middle of the heartbreak that losing a beloved animal can bring. You did everything you could for him, getting him to the first vet so quickly. That that vet missed the diagnosis is a tragedy, because my vet caught IMHA right away. She could tell because Molly’s gums and ears were almost white and her urine was red. Molly did have a transfusion and she recovered nicely.

      I find it interesting that Ralphie had heartworm meds 6 days before. Molly did too and I always thought that was suspicious. They know that IMHA is related to vaccines but no one YET has connected it to heartworm meds. Maybe someone will research this.

      Molly died long after she recovered from IMHA from another problem common to poodles (she was a Bichon Poodle mix): heart disease. I am, as I said, heartbroken.

      Jane

    • Teresa

      we have a dog, she is almost 12 years old and was diagnosed with this last week, she is getting weaker by the day and now isnt eating, the vet stated that a transfusion wouldnt help her, i love her so much, dont know how much longer we will have her, love them while you can, one day there healthy and the next they are gone, she is part shitzu and pomarian

      • http://midlifebloggers.com janegassner

        I’m so sorry to hear that you dog has IMHA. Is she at home with you or at the vet’s? I hope you get to hold her when she goes.

  • Cbailey5150

    My baby girl Simba is having a transfusion right now. I just got word that it is IMHA. She is about 10 years old and is a yellow lab mix. She started out having seizures, which she is prone to when she gets sick as she is also epileptic. These were not the normal Grand Mal seizures. They seemed alot less severe, but almost continual. The Vet did blood work and said everything looked good except an elevated white blood cell count. They put her back on phenabarbital for seizures and gave a broad spectum antibiotic shot. She seemed to be doing better for a while when I had returned home with her. She seemed to get disoriented every time she sat up so she would almost immediatly lay back down. My biggest problem with all of this was getting her to the car to get her to the Vet. When a 103 lb dog doesn’t want to budge it’s all about bribery with treats and so forth. All prayers for my sweet baby are appreciated. I wish you all the best of luck.
    Carol

    • Jane

      Hope Simba is doing better. Isn’t this doggie blood transfusion an amazing thing. They actually have doggie donors willing to give.

      • Cbailey5150

        Yes It is absolutely amazing. She is still in the hospital 6 days now and still not sure if she will make it. My Vet has been doing lots of tests and a specialist in Dallas has now found out Why the IMHA is happening. They said as some time in her life she was exposed to Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick. What is strange to me and I told the Vet as well, that I don.t remember ever having seen a tick on her. Always have had to fight fleas’s but not ticks. Vet said she probably found it and got rid of it herself. Vet said this has been dormant for a long time and is probably the reason that in 2004 or 2005 she was diagnosed with epilepsy and have been treating her for seizures. I dont understand alot about IMHA but it appears there is an underlying reason that it happens and when they find that the real treatment can begin.
        Thank you Jane for the well wishes, all I can do is pray she can beat this terrible thing.

      • Cbailey5150

        Yes It is absolutely amazing. She is still in the hospital 6 days now and still not sure if she will make it. My Vet has been doing lots of tests and a specialist in Dallas has now found out Why the IMHA is happening. They said as some time in her life she was exposed to Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick. What is strange to me and I told the Vet as well, that I don.t remember ever having seen a tick on her. Always have had to fight fleas’s but not ticks. Vet said she probably found it and got rid of it herself. Vet said this has been dormant for a long time and is probably the reason that in 2004 or 2005 she was diagnosed with epilepsy and have been treating her for seizures. I dont understand alot about IMHA but it appears there is an underlying reason that it happens and when they find that the real treatment can begin.
        Thank you Jane for the well wishes, all I can do is pray she can beat this terrible thing.

        • Jane

          That’s fascinating about the tick bite because I clearly remember getting one off Molly a year or so before. I’ll tell my vet. Maybe this will be a breakthrough that will help others…

          These weird fevers and viruses that attack the immune system are scary. A friend of mine has spent half of the past month in the hospital with low white count and fevers and they still aren’t sure what he has.

          Keep in touch about Simba. I know it’s not funny at the time, but I always smile when I read about your efforts to get your 100+ dog into a car. Molly is very transportable at 16 pounds!

      • pauline cliff

        it cost me 472.00 for blood transfusion.i live in canada.what does it cost where you are?just curious.

  • Mary Jo

    Our dog Meeka, an Miniature American Eskimo, age 6 years, 11 months old. She started with real bad breath, which improved with teeth cleaning and then returning about 4 months later. One day she was fine. Next morning she was fine and played outside. Didn’t eat much. Around 4PM she was restless and went to the basement and into her pen. Didn’t want to be bothered. Next morning we noticed her eye was bloodshot. Then a couple of hours later, both eyes were bloodshot. We made an appointment with the Vet. He thought at first it was from rat poison. Further test showed it was IMHA. Gave her a shot of vitamin K and sent us home with Amoxitabs and Prednisone. She had no fever but there was signs of blood in and around her teeth and gums. She went thru the night and once asked to go outside. She just layed on the cool ground. The next day she was worse. She vomited up dried blood twice and was real restless. She went into a coma and died in our arms 2 hours later. We had never heard of IMHA before and wonder if anyone else had a dog that had the same progression. Yes, we used prayer but she went from being fine to death in 53 hours.

    • Jane

      Several years ago, Molly went through a similar bout with that version of IMHA–bleeding at all orifices, etc. There’s an excellent VCA urgent care specialty hospital in Sacramento and she ended up there for a week. This latest bout of IMHA, that you read about in my post, was the opposite. I think the fact that she had a transfusion is probably why she made it through. Veterinary medicine has caught up to human medicine, but it is expensive.

      My thoughts are with you, Mary Jo
      Jane

    • Jeannette Rivera

      My nikki has it and i dont have the money if anyone can help her i give her cause maybe there is hope

  • Bellamarcus

    Is Molly still doing well? My 13-14ish rescue terrier mix just got out of the hospital Sunday with the same diagnosis.

  • Luckyme99

    I hope that your Molly is all better now. . . over a year from your last post. . . I was doing a GOOGLE search for IMHA and your blog showed up. The onset of the illness was rather slow with my shih tzu, compared to Molly’s, about 3 weeks ago it started, and still, no FIRM diagnosis, just an assumption on the part of the vet. VERY stressful. Tashi is about to go on a course of prednisone to stop the destruction of the red blood cells. . . hopefully it will work!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000733074071 Nicole Petersen

    I hope that your dog got better, but this article certainly helped me. My Lily died quite suddenly last Wednesday. She was only 7, like the article stated. She had been fine the previous day, playing and running around, but the only difference was that she didn’t eat as much. I woke up to my dad calling me to check up on her. I eventually found her out in our caged area in the shade. She was lethargic and couldn’t walk very well. When my dad and brother got home from the vet they thought she might have either Anemia or Leukemia. The vet also said that her blood count was nearly non-existant. The events that followed were quite bad. She couldn’t breathe well (lack of red blood cells-oxygen) and it was very stressful for her :’( In the early evening, when my entire family was finally in one room together with her, her little ticker just gave out. It was very traumatic and I was hoping that it was something that we couldn’t have known about. Seeing as that IMHA is a sudden-onset type of thing it makes me feel a little bit better, not much, but a little. I hope more people know about IMHA so that they can prevent it and treat their dogs before it gets as bad as your dog and mine.

    • Anonymous

      Nicole,
      I’m so sorry to hear about your Lily. For those of us who are lucky enough to have pets, losing them is indescribable. The loss is the loss of a loved one, no matter the species.

      I’m glad my post made you feel a little better, at least about what you could have done. IMHA is usually a fluke (although certain breeds are predisposed); there is some connection, however, with vaccinations.

      I loved the description of all of you being with Lily when she died. She went feeling very loved.

      Jane

      • Nancy

        I lost my 5 yr. old Boxer Millie to IMHA Dec. 25 2011, the vet seems to think a new pain pill she just started taking Tramadol for her Hip Dysplasia triggered it. I feel this was my fault for putting her on this medication, not sure if this would happened later down the road or if it was the meds. Nancy

        • Jane

          @Nancy,
          I’m so sorry to hear about Millie. I never heard of a pain med being responsible for it. Molly had had heartworm meds right before she got sick, but my vet didn’t think that was related. What a horrible Christmas for you! I hope 2012 will look up.

          • pauline cliff

            my shih-tzu had heart worm med 3 weeks before he was diagnoised with IMHA and we give this to them the guilt is TOO MUCH we feel its our fault.

    • Jeannette Rivera

      Hi my nikki is still alive she also have imha but shesbonly 6 mo am so sad cause i got bad news and i dont have the money to pay a good vet sadbi know but they give her blood trasplant i give her on my owe b 12 pils and liver rice she still eating good but i see these story and i know my puppy will be gone someday i pray this is a bad dream lets is am sry for your loss pain is so hard am just going to give her all the love i can till its her time my power little nikki she is a maltes

  • Brenda

    I know how tough it is when your best friend gets sick and you feel so helpless. Good luck with Molly and thank goodness you had pet insurance. Which is a good reminder to me since I adopted a new dog recently to keep my old dog company (who has cancer and on medications to prolong his life). My best friend, Meesha, was diagnosed with prostrate cancer over about 16 months ago (and we don’t know how long he had it before). Luckily I have an holistic vet and we started him on herbs and western meds which has given him more energy, has helped his arthritis and he seems to not be in pain. I am grateful for every I continue to have him in my life because he has been a gift from the Universe and helped me get through some really tough times in my life. He is now 15 years old and has perked up a lot since I have brought home a rescue dog (that I was fostering). It is so hard to let go and I pray that he doesn’t suffer….this little creatures are truly gifts from the Gods and deserve all the love, nurturing and care we can give them.

    Best of luck,

    Brenda

    • http://midlifebloggers.com byjane

      @Brenda,

      Before Molly, there was Pupi, a Yorkshire Terrier, who died when she was 19. That’s a ripe old age for a dog, but she was really sick at the end and I think we put her through some misery just so we could be with her. My experience with Pupi taught me that hanging on is sometimes not the loving thing to do. When Molly got sick this time, I kept that in mind and knew that I would take the hard road for me if I had to for her. I feel for you and Meesha…

      Jane

  • lauren Jarvis

    Be well Molly~

  • http://www.duchessomnium.com Duchess

    So glad to hear that Molly is on the mend. I hope she keeps on getting better.

  • http://www.duchessomnium.com Duchess

    I checked in to see how Molly is doing. We will all be glad for an update whenever you feel ready.

    • http://midlifebloggers.com byjane

      @Duchess,
      thanks for giving me a poke. I’ve been updating on Facebook–and now on the post itself.

  • http://www.BabyBoomerTalkOnline.com Boomer54 Mark

    We have 2 Boxer Dogs and they are like our kids! We will keep you and your precious Molly in our prayers.

  • http://ladyfi.wordpress.com Lady Fi

    I’m thinking of you and Molly and sending you healing thoughts.

  • http://www.duchessomnium.com Duchess

    Oh, I hope Molly will be well again! I know how loved a little dog can be, especially when you live alone. And Molly should be with you for another 6 or 7 years or more.

  • http://midlifebloggers.com byjane

    Thank you for all the kind thoughts. She was better last night after the transfusion, but she’s still not out of the woods.

  • http://www.sammystory.net sammy bourke

    Molly and Jane:

    We are rooting for Molly.
    And thinking of you both.

    Love from Sammy,

    And his Best Friend & Kind Friend.

  • Dorothy

    Sending good thoughts and prayers for sweet Molly…

  • http://anntracy.blogspot.com/ ann tracy

    Sending good healing energy to Molly….

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