Monday, September 24, 2007

Tragedy

I know I have been missing in action for that I am sorry. I haven't had the heart to blog ... honestly I do not know how to put into words what is going on in my world. So I am going to do the best I can and please forgive me if it is too graphic or offensive.

We lost our little angel "Binky Boo" this weekend. I would post you a picture but I can't do that without breaking into tears yet again. My eyes already look like they have gone 10 rounds with Ali, and I wouldn't think there could anymore tears left in me, but I continue to surprise myself by breaking out at any given time. Like right now.

I went to Busch Gardens with my kids Saturday and came home to Binky barely breathing and whimpering with every breath she tried to make. I had talked to the waterman on the way home and he had told me she jumped off the dock and he had to jump in and save her, but he didn't prepare me for what I was about to see. He was in denial, complete total denial. I can understand, and do not blame him in any way. It was a freak accident and no one's fault. I suppose I was a little more together than he was as he was the one with her and wanted her to be ok. I called my vet, who was closed and directed me to the on call dr. I call him, imagine my surprise to find a message "I am sorry we are at church for the evening, if you have an emergency call so and so." Well so and so was over an hour away, my mother tried other vets in our area but no one was available. I am sorry but if you are going to be on call for emergencies I am sure that your god wouldn't mind if you took and emergency call during a Saturday evening service to save someone's loved one. Apparently Dr AssWipe didn't agree with me.

I threw my youngest son in the car and had him hold Binky as I was driving like a mad woman, not to mention crying like one. We didnt' make it one mile from home before she stopped breathing and her eyes rolled back. I screamed and grabbed her, apparently that was enough to shock her back into breathing. I dropped my son off and picked up my daughter, I needed some one with me that could help me, Drake is a great kid, but with him screaming and crying as much as me just wasn't helping me at the moment. I needed someone with me that would keep talking to Binky.. keep her alert.

I had so much hope when I got to that doctors office. I just knew that Binky was going to be ok. They were going to fix her. They had too.. she was Binky! The doctor came out and asked me how long she had been in the water, I had no clue, they asked me if she had hit her head, I had no clue. I wasn't there. The most I could get out of the husband when I got home was that she was in the water on her side and he lost his boots. I still do not know for sure what happened to my Binky. I am sure I will never really know. Later in the night the waterman said she ran up on the dock and just never stopped and fell over, he dove in after her but she never tried to swim.

The vets gave her medicine to get the water out of her lungs but it just was too little too late. The lack of oxygen to her brain for hours had already caused damage. The first thing we noticed was that she couldn't see me, then her hearing went. It progressively got worse. For hours I sat with her begging her to fight to try for mama. And she did.. she tried so hard. She got her tempurature back up (after the vet had tried for about 2 hours with a heating blanket with very little luck) and her oxygen level went up as long as I talked to her but she didn't have enough strength left to keep fighting. Then peice by peice she just shut down.

I have never in my life gone through anything so traumatic. To hold her, Binky, and watch her slip away is more than my heart can even begin to bear. I have cried, I have screamed, I have wanted to just sit down and quit, I have worked, I have cleaned, I have washed clothes, I have tried to carry on as normal. I can't. I really can't. Every where I look I see her. She brought us so much joy and happiness and now there is this big hole and I just don't think we can fill it. The rift in this family is something I never imagined could happen but it has. I am sitting here alone, crying. I haven't been held and told it was going to be ok. I haven't been comforted. I know I am not the only one who lost her but is that really the point?

I came home in the wee hours Sunday morning and comforted my husband, and told him it would be ok, and it wasn't his fault and that I loved him, and I would be here for him. Is it too much to ask for that in return. He honestly hasn't talked to me all day. I can count on my hands the number of words he has said to me today. Maybe he doesn't know what to say, maybe he doesn't know how to say it, maybe .. I am so sick of maybe. All i know right now is I feel like I have lost every peice of happiness I had, the very thread that held me together. I have lost the thing I have looked all my life for.... unconditional love.

I love you Binky Boo.. I miss you.

7 comments:

  1. Ann Marie, that is truly tragic. I don't think that tragic is a word that usually is appropriate (in a non-sarcastic tone), but it is here. I'm so very sorry. So so very sorry.

    As for your husband not being loving, I'd chalk it up to a man thing, but I don't know him, I just know the men in my life (all of whom are not experts in comfort). I feel like the little leg of the X gene that is missing to make it a Y contains a lot of the compassion (as well as all of the the dish-doing genes). I'm sure that he's hurting in his own way and that my saying that doesn't make it any better, but know that there are surely more like me who are reading and who are very sorry and are happy to listen if you need to talk more.

    Have a restful evening and deal with this the way you need to.

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  2. Oh Ann Marie I am so sorry. I can't imagine how much that has to hurt. I hope you find the strength to deal with this.
    I have a feeling Waterman is suffering too, and maybe feeling a little guilty. I know that doesn't help your broken heart right now but remember we all are thinking of you.....smooches x a thousand.

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  3. My Anna Maria~I, too, am so, so sorry beyond words. I have been there and it is awful beyond comprehension. All of us with fur kids that we love dearly are hurting with and for you. I wish I could hug you and cry with you and look at Binky Boo's pictures and tell you that, eventually, it will be okay. Really it will. Just not for a while. Close your eyes and imagine Katy on one side of you and me on the other, giving you hugs, in-person cheek smooches and doing what girlfriends do in times of trouble. Waterman is filled with guilt and hurt and doesn't know what to say or do. He is still your wonderful Waterman, but tragedies of this sort call for girlfriends. E-mail if you need to talk, and anything I can do? You got it.

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  4. I'm so sorry about Binky. And about the not talking thing. I hope it's gotten better since you wrote this.

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  5. I went to work, came home and jumped on here at fast as I could hoping you had updated with something like "I'm going to be ok, I just need time to get over Binky Boo's death" but alas, nothing. I really do hope you are feeling at least a little better. We need your happy smooches.

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  6. Oh gosh, how tragic. Words escape me. I'm so sorry this happened to your Binky. I cannot imagine how this must have felt. I hope I never find out.
    Marie
    http://journals.aol.co.uk/mariealicejoan/MariesMuses/

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  7. That was one of the saddest pet stories...tears!

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