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Two years an angel ... missing you Shelby Lynne
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Los Angeles, CA
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8 April 2016 - 12:07 pm
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I cannot believe two years have passed since Shelby left this earth and journeyed to her next place where we WILL meet again. Two years. SO much as happened and for those just starting this next chapter, I can tell you, it DOES get better. I do cry less. I do grieve less. I do love more. And I forgive myself. For everything that I thought I should have done or what I didn't do. It has been the longest healing process of my life and I see the light at that tunnel shine a little brighter each day ...

I still miss Shelby with every fiber of my being. How could I not? She is my heart dog, my soulmate, the love of my life. But her lessons in life and how to live it ... I can finally see that through the cloud of tears. I can see how to celebrate life and each moment for what it is. And when the dark times come (and they still do) ... I look at the little sidekick she sent me and I am filled with gratitude. That I was so lucky to be loved and owned by such a precious soul. 

My mom had a globe made for me that is spun with Shelby's ashes. It sparkles when you turn it on. It shimmers like she did and on the bottom it reads: My Best Girl. 

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There will never be another Shelby or another love story like ours. In a perfect world, I would have Shelby and the sidekick - both by my side - at all times. But alas... we will wait until we are ALL over the bridge. But until then, keep sending me signs, sweetest Shelby ... you know your mama loves you to the moon and back and for all infinity. 

Shelby Lynne; Jack Russell/Shiba Inu mix. Proud member of the April Angels of 2014.

October 15, 2000 to April 8, 2014

Our story: Broke rear leg in June 2013 - non-conclusive results for cancer so leg was plated and pinned. Enlarged spleen in September 2013 and had it removed and was diagnosed with Hemangiosarcoma and started chemotherapy. Became a Tripawd January 8th, 2014 and definitive Hemangiosarcoma diagnosis. Three major surgeries in 7 months and Shelby took them all like a champ only to lose her battle to cancer in her brain. We had 8 amazing extra months together and no regrets. #shelbystrong #loveofmylife

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8 April 2016 - 1:06 pm
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Oh my gosh, Alison - that globe is beautiful!  What a great way to remember Shelby!

Donna

Donna, Glenn & Murphy 

Murphy had his right front leg amputated due to histiocytic sarcoma at 7 years old. He survived 4 years, 2 months & 1 week, only to be taken by hemangiosarcoma at 11 1/2 years 6/12/17  
Read about Murphy's Life on Three Legs

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8 April 2016 - 1:10 pm
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Oh Alison the globe is breathtaking.  It even looks like infinity with the circles that surround each other but remain unbroken.  It's a prefect tribute to show the unending love you share with the beautiful Shelby Lynne for all time.  What a treasure your Mom found for Angel Shelby.  Shelby will shine and glimmer here now just as she shines and glimmers in heaven.

Love, Linda, Ollie, Riley & Spirit Mighty Max

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8 April 2016 - 1:21 pm
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BEAUTIFUL!!!

I'm so glad your heart is healing bit-by-bit. Nice people shouldn't be sad. xoxoxo

Harmony became a Tripawd on 10/21/14 (MCT). She left us way too soon on 11/1/14.

"We miss you so much; our love, our heart, our Harmony."

- Pam, Ron and Melody, Meesha, Doublestuff and Mariah Carey





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8 April 2016 - 6:22 pm
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That is beautiful I love it.  Thank you for sharing it with us.  I can't believe Shelby has been gone 2 years now.  Just seems like yesterday

xoxoxox

Michelle & Angel Sassy

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Sassy is a proud member of the Winter Warriors. Live long, & strong Winter Warriors.
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07/26/2006 - Sassy earned her wings 08/20/2013

05/04/2006 -  Bosch, Sassy's pal, earned his wings 03/29/19  fought cancer for 4 months.

"You aren't doing it TO her, you are doing it FOR her. Give her a chance at life."

Orrtanna Pa.
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8 April 2016 - 7:01 pm
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The globe is just beautiful! WOW! What a gift! It is funny, I was just thinking today, how much my heart has healed. It is hard sometimes to think that 2 whole years have passed. I can still remember getting on here and seeing your post. At the time, I really had no idea that almost exactly a week later, I would be in the same place. It has been a comfort to know I was not alone. I think your globe sort of reminds me of the moon. You always say to Shelby that you love her to the moon and back. Thinking of you! Hugs, Lori Ty and Gang

TY GUY, Best Black Lab ever! Diagnosed  and had amp in January, 2014. Kicked MRSA's butt. Earned his angel wings on April 16, 2014. Run Free my boy and don't forget a shoe. Ty is a proud member of the " April Angels". Ty sent us Daryl, a Tripawd rescue in Sept. of 2016. Daryl is 5 +or -. We are also Pawrents to Chandler, a Border Collie mix who is 15 and 1/2, Lucy, a Corgi who is 7, 2 minis, 2 horses, and a feisty cat named Zoe. Zoe had a non skeletal Osteosarcoma removed in July 2015. No Chemo, she was at least 16. She is going strong although she is now completely blind. She is now close to 20 and her hobbies are eating and sleeping in front of her personal heater. 

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8 April 2016 - 10:04 pm
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Yeah Lori...it does remind us of the moon and loving Shelby to the moon a d back! Yet another sign!! Alison that globe is such a beautiful way to celebrate Shelby! She embodies love and light...so much light! Your mom is very thoughtful and clearly tuned into how much Shelby means to you.

BEAUTIFUL!! ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!

I love that happy pocture of Shelby Lynne...and I love how she's looking at her globe with so much joy!

It is a true privilege to be with yiu on this continuing journey of growth and life lessons. And oh my goodness, you have grown leaps and bounds. Youve courageously faced every hurdle with a determination ro learn from it...to move past it. And we've grown and learned right along beside you

And you do have Shelby, your best girl, and Jasper, your sidekick, right by your side. And what a team!
Thank you Shelby Lynne, for bringing us Alison, and Jasper Lily too!

And when the dark times come, you not only have Jasper Lily to move through it, you have Shelby's shimmeringlight to show you the way out of darkness.

Love and hugs...lots of 'em!

Sally and My Chunky Spiritual Being Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle and Frankie too!

Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!

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9 April 2016 - 7:46 am
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Thank you EVERYONE!!! I do love it so much and it just speaks "Shelby" to me. As I addressed in my blog... a lot has changed in two years and it seems surreal and real all in the same. I appreciate and love you all so much as I have worked through this grief in a very public yet private way. And that you all can see how I have grown through my grief (and that little JL has really helped when I didn't think that she would).

This was the globe that caused so much brouhaha at security. Now I can see why it might be unusual since it was wrapped in bubble wrap in a velvet bag but I begged the guy to believe me that it was just a beautiful piece of art made from my deceased dog's ashes ... while standing with a dog in a cheerleading outfit. I am sure he thought I was nuts but so thankful it made it through security and back home with us to LA. I can tell you this much - I would have refused to get on that plane if they hadn't let me take it! 🙂 

Shelby touched so many lives and she continues to do so .... her big smile ... her happy velvet ears ... her endless love! I am glad you all have had the chance to share her with me too! 

Much love!!!

Shelby Lynne; Jack Russell/Shiba Inu mix. Proud member of the April Angels of 2014.

October 15, 2000 to April 8, 2014

Our story: Broke rear leg in June 2013 - non-conclusive results for cancer so leg was plated and pinned. Enlarged spleen in September 2013 and had it removed and was diagnosed with Hemangiosarcoma and started chemotherapy. Became a Tripawd January 8th, 2014 and definitive Hemangiosarcoma diagnosis. Three major surgeries in 7 months and Shelby took them all like a champ only to lose her battle to cancer in her brain. We had 8 amazing extra months together and no regrets. #shelbystrong #loveofmylife

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9 April 2016 - 9:31 am
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Oh Alison!! You...the globe...and Jasper in her cheer outfit trying to get thru security...OMD!!laughinglaughing And trying to explain the ashes...the glove made out of ashes....his life will never be the same!

Blog? I was looking for it all day yesterday. No way it showed up! Did you see it?

Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!

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9 April 2016 - 11:48 am
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Let's just say ... TSA has limited sense of humor. 

Here's Shelby's blog from yesterday.... it got bumped pretty quickly: http://mom2shel.....-an-angel/

However .... today is actually worse than yesterday for me. Probably the rain. Probably because I was trying to be all big and brave and say it gets better and I have closure but today I feel very lost w/out my best girl. Probably also because the sidekick is hiding in the closet for no good reason other than her irrational fear of rain and won't let me comfort her. Shelby ALWAYS came to her mama and let me comfort her. I wish Jasper would get to that point. Sigh... 

Shelby Lynne; Jack Russell/Shiba Inu mix. Proud member of the April Angels of 2014.

October 15, 2000 to April 8, 2014

Our story: Broke rear leg in June 2013 - non-conclusive results for cancer so leg was plated and pinned. Enlarged spleen in September 2013 and had it removed and was diagnosed with Hemangiosarcoma and started chemotherapy. Became a Tripawd January 8th, 2014 and definitive Hemangiosarcoma diagnosis. Three major surgeries in 7 months and Shelby took them all like a champ only to lose her battle to cancer in her brain. We had 8 amazing extra months together and no regrets. #shelbystrong #loveofmylife

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9 April 2016 - 12:20 pm
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I'm gonna go check her blog later tonight. I know it will be specail..

BTW (by the way), I "noticed" you were being very brave, very enlightened in your post...and it was REAL! And itsw just as REAL as bei d down some today!

And remeber...at least for me anyway...there's no such thing as "closure" when it comes to grief. There is a wound, the wound heals but there is always a scar.

When Lil' Jasper was a street girl, dark corners were the only safe places she could find. Go in the closet with her....really...do it....see if she can then relate to you as her safe place when her fears take her back to the street. And we want pictures!!

Love you Alison!

Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!

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9 April 2016 - 1:51 pm
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Alison, 

I knew the 8th is the angelversary for Shelby, and I thought, even though I have so much going on, that you posted somewhere and I missed it..... But thankfully I didn't miss it.

Two years seems like an eternity, but then again, sometimes just like yesterday. So many of us are in remembrance of two years without our most beloved and special pups, and then I look back and know we all have come a long way in two short years. We have learned how to laugh again, have joy again, and most important, how to love again. Yes, that grief will always be there, but life allows us to heal enough to move on, not forget, just move on. And yes, I still cry sometimes when I think about or see any pic of my Polly, it's definitely ok.

I have to say, that globe is the most amazing and wonderful gift I have seen in awhile, a keepsake forever...... 🐾💜 

Keeping you in my thoughts, and I also want to thank you for all the support you have given to me, and so many others here, you are a very loving, giving person ❤️

Much Love, 

Bonnie, Angel Polly, Pearl, and Zuzu 

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10 April 2016 - 10:31 am
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Wow two years flies by doesn't it? Crazy. I know what you mean, we miss our Jerry every day. It's a bittersweet celebration indeed.

But...Alison we are SO proud of you! You've journeyed a long, difficult road and you came through it stronger and more pawsitive than ever. It's not an easy thing to do but YOU DID IT. That beautiful globe is what your heart looks like inside, strong and brave with Shelby's spirit running through your veins. Such a gorgeous way to honor your precious girl, both literally with the globe and spiritually with your strong, courageous attitude toward life.

Rock on strong girl! xoxo

Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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10 April 2016 - 7:31 pm
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Alison, the globe is beautiful! What an awesome tribute for Shelby. I laughed a bit picturing Jasper in her cheerleader outfit at the security gate. (I still say she should be a cheesehead!). You've traveled far on this journey, so proud of you.....and what an inspiration for others, to show that while the road is rough, you can come out the other side - all the while honoring your soul mate. 

Paula and Nitro

Nitro 11 1/2  yr old Doberman; right front amp June 2014. Had 6 doses carboplatin, followed by metronomic therapy. Rocked it on 3 legs for over 3 years! My Warrior beat cancer, but couldn't beat old age. He crossed the Bridge peacefully on July 25, 2017, with dignity and on his terms.  Follow his blog entitled "Doberman's journey"

http://nitro.tripawds.com

"Be good, mama loves you".....run free my beautiful Warrior

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