| Message | Please pray for our Baby Gia. On December 12th, when she woke up smiling to give me her usual "Good Morning, Mommy, I love you" kisses, I saw a red bump that was protruding from her left lip, and instantly felt sick, as we'd lost our first Sheltie, Baby Ginger, to a very aggressive and rare Sarcoma. We got Gia into our Vet within an hour, and though we weren't able to see her usual one because he is in surgery that day, the one we saw showed him the scrape she'd taken, and he said he saw abnormal cells, so we did another one, and she had surgery to remove it Dec. 19th. On Dec. 26th, he called he tell us that she does indeed have cancer. I'm trying so hard to be strong, but she is my baby, as much as if I had given birth to her. I love her more than I could ever express in words, and can't imagine life without her. I've seen lots of positive things on this site, and am trying some of them, and am waiting for our Gia candle to arrive, but I'm so terribly sad and scared every single minute. Thank you for this forum, as I don't have one single person in my whole large family who "gets it". I can't even bring myself to talk with them this year as I've been told "She's just a dog, and so what?" Because of my heart problem, I couldn't have a baby of our own, which we wanted. We lost our 1st Sheltie, Ginger, 3 hours before my birthday, which I've hated ever since. I'm so glad to find others who understand, and I am praying for all of you, too. I'm sorry that we have to even be here. |