Kiara Jordan

They say lighting never strikes twice, well whoever "they" are must not have been talking about canine cancer. Because not even 30 days after we lost Skyler we found out Kiara has a brain tumor and because of it's size and location it is fatal. 

We noticed something on Wednesday night , her third eyelid started to protrude on her left side and her face looked so very different to me. Then she started to bump into things and miss a step here and there. Her head was hung low and in a deep tilt to the left side and her walk was drunken. On Thursday morning Kellen and I took her in to see Dr. Tag.  A full work up was done including blood work & X-rays. Nothing out of the normal was found, but she wanted Kiara to see the neurologist in the morning.

By Friday at 6am Kiara could not walk at all. She could not close her mouth and her eyes were rolling and darting around like crazy. She looked and acted nothing like the pup we have loved for ten years.  I rushed her in for her appointment and cried as the vet techs lifted her onto a gurney and rolled her into the ER. There was no question now in our minds soething horriable was wrong with our baby.

Dr Johnson performed a full physical exam on Kiara and delivered the news. It was most liekly a brain tumor and Cancer. But with the very slight chance that she could have a fungal infection. The only real way to know is to perform an MRI so they could a detailed look at her brain.  Kiara was taken to a human MRI facility that afternoon and by the end of the day our worst fears were confirmed

We sat in the very same room where they told us Skyler had hemangiosarcoma. Sitting on the cold floor, we held each other and cried, really cried. We had not even recovered from losing our blue boy and now this. Kiara was given an injection of prednisone and pills for her to take at home.  It is of course, a short time fix but Kiara is back to her old self. She can walk, and bark, and wag her tail.  The most amazing thing is her face is completely back to normal. If you see her, you would think there is nothing at all wrong. But in reality we have just been given a small space of time to make arrangements and say our goodbyes.

I know that there are no words to express how devastated we are.  Kiara has been with us for almost 11 years. She is our first baby and I just cant imagine our lives without her.