I thought I'd focus on something other than Sydney's being sick tonight and tell you a little about how she was as a PUPPY!! So come... take a trip down memory lane with me......
Oh my gosh .. wasn't she the cutest little thing ? Not to say she isn't adorable now but there is something about a little lab puppy that just makes me squeal like a school girl. She was such a sweet docile puppy, terrified of riding in the car when we brought her home. She sat on my lap just shaking and shaking. ( Now she LOVES to go bye-bye ) but the whole time ....she was conning us ....
This has to be my FUNNIEST memory of baby Sydney. When Sydney was little she had to be watched ALL the time (as most pups do!) and she LOVED going in the bathroom while I'd take a bath (she'd peek over the edge and wait for me to splash her). So one time I had her in there - we'd splashed and had fun and I got out and was sitting on the toliet. She grabbed ahold of the throw rug and started doing the death shake like crazy with it. I grabbed the other end and her mouth and told her DROP IT DROP IT. While I was wrestling the adorable little mischief maker my towel had fallen. So... Sydney dropped the towel and promptly clamped down on my BOOB and wouldn't let go !!! You have never heard someone scream like I did. My SO at the time came running in, flung the door open and fell on the floor in a fit of laughter. I wasn't laughing then ... but ... I am chuckling now
Sydney was the WORST .. absolute WORST "teenager". Okay, maybe not ... I'm sure some dog (probably a lab ) somewhere has her topped. She was a chewer and on top of that she was a chewer with severe seperation anxiety.
Sydney has one of the strangest and largest laundry list of things she has consumed in her life. Aside from countless barbie feet, shoes, socks, an entire linolieum floor, WOODWOORK (oh the woodwork - I had almost forgotten about that!).....
She ate a PADLOCK. Sydney was one of those dogs that wasn't just destructive when I left her - but she FREAKED out. To the point that she was a danger to herself. We were at our wits end with her (and at the time - naive about canine behavior) and we put a padlock on her crate because she figured out how to open the slides. We didn't LOCK the padlock - just slid it in there to keep her from sliding it open while we were gone. Well... she not only got it open but we came home to find no sign of the padlock. Xrays managed to find it and it passed without major incident.
How about a sewing tomato ? With the pins !!! This wasn't Sydney's only "OUCH" snack though. Sydney was about a year old and starting to be able to be trusted in the house. I had been watching T V when I heard that crunch in the other room that told me she had gotten something. I go running into the bathroom to find her dopey lab adolecent self sitting there proudly with her "FIND" chomping away with BLOOD pouring out of her mouth. I mean POURING. I panicked !! I fished around in her mouth hoping she didn't SWALLOW whatever it was and fished out the head of a disposable MACH 3 razor blade that was just mangled !! A trip to the vets revealed no major damage... but I was soooo shook up!!
It's a tradition in our family that a permanant dog (not a rescue) gets a very nice leather collar on their first birthday.... it kind of symbolizes that they are part of the family and that they've grown up to the point that we don't have to do the new collar a week thing anymore. Doesn't Sydney look soooo pretty in her leather collar. She was just so proud, I think she really knew how special that gift really was. Sydney still wears her leather collar with TONS of pride !!
Sydney was hit by a car shortly after her first birthday. She had been doing AWESOME with the seperation anxiety (we had found that the crate was actually a big part of her issue - perhaps a bad feeling from being in a puppymill ???) so we had started to gate her off in the kitchen when we were gone. The best we can figure is that a thunderstorm came along and she ripped through a screen window she was so scared and bolted into the street. Whomever hit her left her laying there and a kind neighbor brought her back to us when they saw us come home. She was having a lot of trouble breathing and we never thought she would make it. We took her to the vet where we discovered she had a bad Pneumothorax. She spent a few days in the emergency hospital and it was very touch and go. She had to have a chest tube to remove the air from her chest cavity. When she came home I laid with her day and night. My daughter and I would take turns staying up with her counting her breaths ... falling asleep momentarily with our hand on her chest. We just kept telling her we'd ALWAYS make her better no matter what it took... and we did.
When they did Sydney's chest Xray to check for metastasis last week we could still see old scarring from the accident.
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Sydney radically calmed down after the accident. It was really then that her and I came together on some "different" level. I KNOW that she knew we saved her life and I KNEW she was very thankful. It's something I'd never be able to explain to someone but the accident bonded us together so tightly. She'd look at me with these eyes and I'd feel it in my heart. I really hope that when I look at her she feels it in HER heart like I do. (I think she does
This is one of my favorite pictures.... Brittany , my daughter, and Sydney all curled up asleep on the couch. I'd think Sydney is about 2 in this photo.
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Sydney's not much of an "outside" dog. Really she's more of a velcro dog prefering to go where ever I am or my daughter is. She is glued to one of us at all times. Unless it involves swimming OR the first snow ... Sydney LOVES LOVES to run around digging her nose into the snow the first time it falls. Only the first time. I think maybe she's saying "HEY !! Where the HECK did the GROUND go ???"
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This is a rare photo of all three labradorks together. This was taken maybe a year or so ago. They are OBVIOUSLY begging for a snack from my daughter .... Sydney is one fantastic begger. She LOVES her "people" food.
I really appreciate it if you made it this far. It was thereputic for me to go digging for my favorite photos , to write this and share some of my favorite things about Sydney. It's a good reminder to me of why I am so willing to fight this fight with her. She deserves everything I can do and more ... which is where all the IMOM Angels will come in .
Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.
G'night !!
Michelle & Sydney
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The IMOM voulenteers have been so nice and soooo supportive. I have Sydney scheduled for Monday for the first treatment. Thank-you IMOM angels for pledging her first treatment !!!! 
I told Sydney she's going to the VET again. The response I got was "hrmph" and she put her head down. I'm guessing she is less than thrilled about having to go back there (and isn't feeling too great) ... but I am SURE she is thankful. 
And great job on her PIN page.
. It wood makes u feel muchess better!! We are PIN's here too, and we have 
trains--ever day we are seizure free we get more 
She can't go out to go swimming , she still has her stiches in . Whoops. 
CELIA & ROTTENDOGS 
on them for ever doubting the MAGIC here on IMOM !! 
