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Chapter Two of Winnie's Story As many of you know..Winnie is basically terminal with cancer..(but please don't tell her as right now she is furiously shaking her favorite woobie, then tossing it in the air and catching it!). As all of you know, I made the decision to simply allow Winnie to live out her life in gentle comfort with no heroics....and this she was happily doing..until June..When Winnie came into the rescue during the first week in February, we thought that we would have her with us at most 2-4 months before the cancer or the heart condition would take her.It is now the middle of August and all I can say is NOT!!!!! In June, we had a bit of a crisis. She came into season. In February it was determined that she was so ill ...even though she didn't act it....that she would not survive the spay surgery plus we didn't think she would live long enough for her to come into season..that is if she came into season at all due to the location of the cancer...wellllllllll...... WRONG AGAIN! Miss Winnie had her own agenda.And nowhere on that agenda did Miss Winnie write in..."I will throw in the towel on this day"...hhhmmmmm go figure...Miss Mary and the vet!!!(big grin here on Miss Winnie's cute little muzzle) Therefore, I get home one afternoon from running some errands and there is Winnie, madly flirting with my boy, Jack...who is totally puzzled as he has never been hit on by a "mature woman"...or so he barks! Within 3 days, Winnie is hemorrhaging and my laundry room looks like a massacre has taken place there! We run to the vet who doesn't hold out much hope. If we don't do surgery she will surely die, if we do she will probably die on the table due to the heart damage....We do surgery to spay and try to remove some of the cancer.. I am holding my breath....my vet finally calls after many hours. Winnie has been on the table for a VERY long time. They spayed her and took out 6 tumors!!!...one the size of a baseball and 5 the size of plums. An hour after the surgery, Winnie is standing up and madly wagging her tail ready to go and play. The word now is if the cancer stays away until September first, we will treat her heartworms in hopes of healing her heart as well.. The road to September has NOT been easy. During the last week of July she began to swell in the area where her cancer was removed. I was in tears and afraid that the news would not be good...Thank doG I was wrong! It was just an infection post operatively to the surgery to remove the tumors. Boy was I relieved!! Now on to looking forward to the first week in September! Here is a special note from Winnie and me......During all of this there was no thought to given to the cost limitations. Winnie was given all she needed to maintain the quality of life she was having and deserved one way or another I would have seen to it that she received the proper care no matter the cost...Thanks to many special folks, I didn't have to worry about finances......We both want to thank all the folks that through Alove4Goldens... became part of the "Win-Pin Family"...from the very bottom of Miss Winnie's and my hearts for your donations and sacrifices that have enabled me to care for Winnie without worrying about where the money would come from to pay the veterinarian's bills. God Bless you all! Check back often to read more chapters in the life of the very special, Miss Winnie. She has a lot to look forward to..soon her heart will be healed. Then we will begin the chapter about her finding a loving, special, "FOREVER" home! mary