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Oh no, oh no...So sorry.  I am so devastated for you.  Levi and I have been following your story....don't even know what to say as I sit here at work crying.

Foxy went pretty fast too.  She wasn't really eating much and didn't want to go on her dog walks all last week...the week before that she'd eat her food once a day only, but was always interested in people food...her coughs also increased in frequency and severity.  You could tell she was coughing up a lot of fluid.

Since about Thursday she didn't want any types of food really.  She at a little chicken late Friday.

Saturday morning we took her to the vet and he recommended some antibiotics for all the fluid and a pill to help her breathe.  She breathing really improved a short time after the first dose.  He also gave her a bit of a steroid to encourage her appetite.

Saturday at dog park she did great.  She was active...we stayed for longer than normal, about 2.5 hours.

In my car on the way home, she vomited up a ton of water and the little bit of chicken from the night before.

she kept vomiting fluid and coughing a lot.  About this time she wasn't happy like she normally was anymore.  She'd run away from herself it seemed during the coughing attacks.

The next day blood sugar was at 448.  Her normal insulin dose was 4.5U twice a day after 5U it went up to 600!, I administered another 5U which only brought it to 500, another 5U took it to 448.  I gave another 5U and by morning it was still at 321.

We took her in to the Vet on monday.  They recommended at least putting her in oxygen for comfort...it helped her breathing but she was scared a bit at the vet.  By 11am her blood sugar was still a bit high.  It normalized at noon and was around 127 by 3pm.  She had no interest in even people food and she was still producing a lot of fluid.  

We had to make the decision to put her down.  There was really going to be no good future for her and that was sad.  We'd have loved her to go out on a high note, but at least her suffering was really only a day and even during that last day she had rebounded a little on the way in to her last vet visit.  She was happy to go for the car ride, not so happy when we got there, but we walked her around the area a bit and she seemed happy to explore.

Out of the 1.5 years we were treating her, it was just those last couple days that she really went downhill.  At least the meds helped her for one last day...

Sorry for your loss...IMHO a quick degradation is much much better than going slow and having good and bad days ending up being bad and some good days.