Dr. Yeo gave the puppy oxygen and medication to prevent the dog from gasping, lessen pain, and help it breathe more easily.
” Usually, when people decline death, they’re given palliative treatment medicines such as analgesics for their pets. But often, that’s not enough. If the dog is never eating, you’re not going to find the treatment over. Or, if they are gasping, sometimes you need oxygen”, she explained.
” Finish- of- life treatment is not just going house with a bunch of medication. It is very engaging. We constantly tweak what we do to make the person more comfortable]at home]. Maybe, if pets are very important, they may even ending up here in the center on oxygen, or treated”, she said.
For elderly animals, value palliative care and hospital care are extremely important, according to Dr. Yeo. ” Generally, nobody will kill one day, and when the day is near, how one dies is very important”.
Gathering STRENGTH FROM Grief
Dr. Yeo’s passion for elderly and palliative care stems from a terrible loss.
In her later forties, her two favorite childhood dogs, Munchie, a butterfly, and Elmo, a schnauzer, passed away.
They were quite near to me,” she said. Every day, Munchie and I would go to bed up. She had put her head to my mind. In the morning, when I tell her,’ This go’, she did fly over from the base and go to the entrance. We knew each other’s actions and wants”, she recalled warmly.