Sad day!

So I didn't think I would be posting so soon after my last post but today is a sad day. It has been an ongoing struggle with Turk trying to get him healthy. We have visited the animal hospital 3 times now. On Wednesday Chris and I decided to go out since he was leaving the next day to go to Hawaii. When we came home there was blood, throw up and poop everywhere. (I know...maybe a little too much information.) We went looking for Turk and found him upstairs in our bedroom looking so sick, sorry, and sad. Chris took him immediately to the Vet. You could tell how scared he was, it just broke my heart. They decided to keep him for a week to do tests and see what is really wrong with him. I called the Vet the next day, yesterday, to see how Turk was doing. They had run some tests and found that he had an enormous amount of bacteria in his body that was absorbing all the nutrients that his body needs to survive. The Vet sounded hopeful that with some Vitamin B-12 injections and monitoring he would be okay. Well at about 2:00am this morning I got a  call from Chris in Hawaii. I was somewhat alarmed that he was calling me so early and I prayed that Chris was okay, because I of course was thinking the worse. Chris begins to tell me that the Vet had just called him and that there was bad news. I don't know how else to say it without just saying that when he was going to the bathroom he was pushing so hard to make it come out he pushed his rectum out and the Vet said that the surgery is so intense for a dog Turk's size that she didn't feel like he would make it. Chris wanted to know what I wanted to do. Although I'm not the biggest animal lover I have started getting attatched to Turk and it was a little sad to think that Turk would never be coming back but the only option was to put him down. Chris called the Vet and gave them the go ahead to put him down. At least he's not suffering anymore. I think it's safe to say that we won't be replacing him, at least not for a few years. I may give in again in the future but as for right now no more dogs for our family.