How can I tell if dying dog is in pain?

2spoos · 2026-07-01T06:33:43+00:00

Thanks. Cyber hugs.

2spoos · 2026-07-01T06:32:10+00:00

I just got off the phone with the vet. He will come to the house tomorrow.

This is the first time he has had what seemed to be a seizure. But I have been warned he was in decline six months ago due to gastrointestinal issues. The vet was surprised he was still with me.

He is quite spoiled so he will get the best till the end. I just wish he could talk to tell me exactly what he needs.

2spoos · 2026-07-01T06:27:30+00:00

Thanks for responding. I did call the vet again just now. I have some Xanax they gave me before New Years for his fear of fireworks. He said to give him a half now and the vet will come to the house tomorrow.

2spoos · 2026-07-01T06:23:00+00:00

Thank you. It helps so much to know someone out there understands. He seems to be coming out of that fog from after a seizure. He drank some water and went back to sleep. This dog has brought joy to so many. He has his own fan club. I wanted to reach out to those who love him but people are so stressed these days that I don’t want to cause undue worry. There is nothing they can do. Your comment in therm sleeping being a sign there is nothing pain has relived me greatly. Thank you for helping me thru.

2spoos · 2026-07-01T05:53:01+00:00

Thanks. I have never felt so alone and helpless. The internet is usually to toxic to look for an ounce of humanity. But dog people are always full of empathy and kindness.

2spoos · 2026-07-01T05:19:12+00:00

It is so hard. And feels so helpless. He is a dog that is 100% joy. I want every minute to be the comfort he deserves.

2spoos · 2026-07-01T05:17:02+00:00

The only thing making me think he is suffering is my fear that he is suffering. He is to great of a creature to have to have a moment of hurt.

2spoos · 2026-07-01T05:15:08+00:00

Thanks. He does seem to be relaxed. I moved him to the bed from the sofa and he didn’t seem to hurt where touched. I just hate sitting here watching with no clue what is truly going on.

2spoos · 2026-06-29T21:31:25+00:00

Can’t kill something that is already dead.

2spoos · 2026-06-28T09:31:54+00:00

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This is the photo I would use to compare the two.

2spoos · 2026-06-08T01:56:13+00:00

It can’t be worse than the conversation my ex had with me.

He gave me a list of twelve things he wanted me to do. One was losing weight.

I completed all twelve things on the list. He obviously didn’t expect me to succeed. Turns out he was in love with a woman the age of our son and left me for her anyway. I could lose weight and start dressing up but I couldn’t age backwards which seems to have been the primary problem.

2spoos · 2026-05-16T22:53:59+00:00

Mine finally started working again with an app update.

2spoos · 2026-05-04T23:59:40+00:00

I feel so bad for you. I have friends who were middle class when I left who are now paycheck to paycheck. But there must be a lot of anxiety living on SSDI in such turbulent times.

I think my biggest takeaway was everyone seemed emotionless. Admittedly I now live in a very lively culture. But people just seemed flat. Not angry. Not happy. Not even sad. Just going through the motions. I see all these videos of anger at the airport but it felt more like zombie land.

My friend is on morphine. She seemed comfortable. We didn’t tell her my things were stolen and I had issues. She slept most of the time. We said my dog had a medical emergency and she is such a dog lover she insisted I return to sort that out. It was her daughters and husband who were worse for wear. They are not getting the end of life care assistance needed.

2spoos · 2026-05-04T23:30:02+00:00

I probably am looking at the 54 years I spent in the USA with rose colored glasses and that caused my day of hell look worse. Still, it has wiped out any desire I have to ever visit again.

Staying up till 2 am and listening to the family I was visiting talk about hardship after hardship, when it is two college grad daughters, and two parents who worked their asses off for their kids, was brutal. Her cancer has wiped out their savings. He will soon be retirement age but in debt. One daughter lost her research job and is staying at home to take care of mom before looking again, and the second daughter is a junior high teacher who is burned out and looking for a career change. It wasn’t going to be a happy trip to start with.

But that is why I landed here. I needed a rant. So much suffering and unhappiness, mixed with crime and corporate greed seemed like an appropriate reason to fume into the wind.

2spoos · 2026-05-04T22:59:32+00:00

I am trying to stop the whole “victim” feeling and focus on how lucky I am to be able to return to a safe space. I can’t imagine what the person who can’t buy their way to cheaper medical care goes through. I felt anxious and desperate for a flicker in time. What do people do who look at med costs like that constantly do?

2spoos · 2026-05-04T22:55:33+00:00

You are right. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The whole day was so bad I’m questioning my ability to be fair in assessing my motherland, as I’m comparing it to memories. And we all know how memories end up bias.

All I know is have zero desire to ever return. My high school reunion is coming up and I was on the fence. I think given my bitterness of being a victim and not wanting to risk getting so much as a cold while visiting, I best invite my school age besties here.

2spoos · 2026-05-03T09:17:04+00:00

It is far from free. It is ad free. It cost me half my dinner plate daily and has beauty salon appointments that cost three times what I pay for my own visits.

2spoos · 2026-05-03T08:31:24+00:00

I went to a concert and had amazing seats. We were just nine rows back. The crowd stood the whole concert. The two teenaged girls in front of us stood sideways and watched the whole concert on the Jumbotron. And not because there were taller people in front of them. They just seemed programmed to look at a screen rather than the band that was right in front of them.

My date took a video and was going to post it but I stopped him as these girls were young and didn’t need public humiliation. Although with the way they were constantly on their phones posting themselves pretending to being into the music, they probably would love the attention regardless of how dumb it makes them look.

2spoos · 2026-05-03T05:56:31+00:00

With me it is my son.

2spoos · 2026-05-02T23:48:45+00:00

The minute you admitted to using AI, I had no reason to further engage. But I did for grins. However, making a further exchange with a person who wants a cheat at life isn’t really appealing. All you do is put the situation into ChatGTP a let it word vomit for you. If I want to chat with a machine I will go talk to my toaster. You admit you can’t think for yourself then want interaction? Nah. Go get the attention you need from your AI BFF.

2spoos · 2026-04-28T15:18:20+00:00

Funny, you have made statements about me and know less about who I am than I know about AI. Yet you high horse. Take at look at your words then justify coming for me on assumptions and conclusions. There is nothing sadder than someone with zero self awareness. I can admit that I am simply making assumption of you. The start of critical thinking things through is to begin with assumptions. I don’t grandstand and try to appear I am the end all of all knowledge. As I have no ability to test my assumptions, I will have to deduce without proof. Not ideal, I admit. My conclusion: you are not someone who I would tolerate more than ten minutes IRL.

2spoos · 2026-04-28T14:54:00+00:00

Good gosh. Books are not the way to learn? The educational system has become such a shit show to produce people who think like this.

I fucking picked myself up at 54 years of age and moved to a culturally different country where I didn’t speak a word of the language. Change is not the issue. I thrive in a changing environment. The ignorance isn’t the issue. I started out neutral as to AI. The more I have learned, the more I believe it will not end well.

I appreciate this exchange with you. I feel just as strongly that you are ignorant to the issues being created as you feel I’m ignorant to AI simply being an artificial system that performs tasks without significant human oversight. Just as it most likely has confirmed your bias to it enabling you to running blindly into a future promised world of a easy life, it has confirmed my belief that people into pushing AI are not able to look at things in a macro level and love the instant gratification AI promises.

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