It was just two days ago, my sweet Keiko. Two days when daddy and me walked you into the hospital to put you down. I watched you as you cried wagging your tail wanting desperately to get the young female golden retreiver's attention...... I watched as you were able to still stand and eat. I watched your beautiful body get eaten away by the cancer in just five months of receiving the news. Daddy and I just thought, back in April, you were limping because of a sprain or a thorn in your paw. When the vet said he thought it could be osteosarcoma daddy and I looked at each other as if we had seen a ghost. "Cancer"!!!??? The X-Rays confirmed it. No, it was not osteosarcoma but it was in fact bone cancer. Daddy and I were walking in a daze for two weeks. There was never a time during those two weeks when we did not walk without a tissue in hand. Soon, we accepted it and just....waited. You seemed okay, no pain, no discomfort. The medicine was helping. Daddy and I were not prepared what to expect in July. We did not know that what once looked like a walnut on your front elbow would drastically grow in just four months. We were not prepared for the tumor to grow out of you with such vengence. The vet told us to either amputate or put you down. You are 11 now and cannot walk on this leg. You are breathing so heavy and so hard. Amputation is not even an option. It is a weekend so we had to wait until Monday to call the vet and tell him that we were ready to bring you in and put down. This was the hardest weekend of our lives. Our son, Jake knows you will be going to doggy heaven. But he's only five so he did not spend as much time with you as daddy and I did. So I think he will be fine. The vet told us to talk to you but it was hard. All I did was watch you go to sleep, so peacefully, so beautifully and felt relieved. Relieved that this cancer cannot invade your beautiful body anymore. Sad. Sad that the cancer already invaded your beautiful body and you could not live anymore. Why? Why can you still eat, breath, wag your tail, pee, and we have to put you down??!! It is not fair and makes no sense. You should not be out of our lives because of a lump on your elbow. Yet we know that you did not like me bandaging it every day. I know the medicine was making you sick. And we know we did the right thing. We love you our sweet Keiko. We miss you Keiko. I am so very sad. So sad