In Memory of Chelsea

We apologize that some of you are hearing about this for the first time via Abbie's Blog, however we are not quite ready to make phone calls spreading the news. Thank you for your understanding.

For those of you who may not know, our first "child" Chelsea has suffered from a fairly rare kidney disorder, Polycystic Kidney Disease, for all of her life. For the most part she has acted like a typical Wheaten Terrier, spunky, crazy!, loves to jump and give kisses, ears were her favorite (followed by a close second of belly buttons!). However, over the past few weeks she has been acting very strange and not at all like herself. Even so, we were quite surprised when Chelsea woke us up early this morning and was bleeding from her nose. We of course went into panic mode. Ed brought Chelsea to the emergency vet and found out that her blood is not clotting. The treatment for this disorder would take months and would be really hard on her kidneys. There is also no guarantee that the treatment would work with Chelsea given her existing medical condition. We had to make hardest decision of our lives.



We dreamed of the days when Chelsea would snuggle with Abbie and sleep in her room as she grew older. While we know that will not happen, we are glad that Abbie was able to get to know Chelsea, even if she won't remember her! We are just disappointed that we weren't able to get a good video of the two of them.

We will miss you Chelsea...Love, Mom & Papa & Abbie