Sookie is gone, and I discovered the she was in heart failure, nefore surgery at Blue Pearl. and…read moreit was chronic. The heart failure destroyed the kidneys. She had only 1/2 of each kidney left and one tuble. I don't know how she lived like that, especially since it said she also had multiple heart attacks, chronic. How could Dr. Kennerly have said, "The dog has aged, but the heart hasn't aged." The test from Banfield showed she was in heart failure, but Dr. Kennerly said no. If only she had given Sookie medicine from 2023, instead of saying it's mild, stayed mild for 3 years and she doesn't need medication. Although her blood pressure was taken, and on a couple of occasions high, no one gave her medication. CVETS Internal Medicine found a questionable blood pressure, but dismissed her back to primary care in 2025. She suffered at the end not just because of her heart, but because Dr. Kennerly approved Ketamine, without re-examing her when I rushed her to CVETS ER after Blue Pearl, Augusta, Georgia, discharged her yelping. Ketamine is not supposed to be given to dogs with heart disease, especiallysince CVETS' record showed moderate respiratory distress and Grade III Heart murmur. I objected, but when Sookie was yelping and I brought her back at 1:25 a.m., the ER nurse said, "She's stable." She wasn't stable. I showed her a video I took while waiting in the ER of her having breathing problems. Her lungs were collapsing and finally fully collapsed. I came back to the ER after discharge 1:45 a.m, and they said she could not see the doctor until 8 a.m. only have a ketamine shot.I left and came back 4 a.m. on the 20th desperate and got the Ketamine shot because the nurse said she's stable after listening to her heart. I came back to see the doctor (as they wouldn't let her see yhe doctor they said until 8 a.m.). She was yelping and we saw the doctor after 11:00 a.m. who misdiagnosed her as just in "pain" from surgery. They slapped another fentanyl patch on her. They failed Sookie. If they hadn't said her heart condition was mild, but later wrote ER heard a Grade III, which is not mild, she would have had medication. She was taken in by Dr. Purdue, who was kind, but he didn't answer an email I sent to him, questioning why he said she could pass away in the hospital. He had scanned her but didn't tell me about the vena cava and hypovolemia. Dr. in critical care, while well-meaning, diagnosed a Grade III, not mild Grade II, for the heart murmur. When I got the records after she died, I wondered why I wasn't told she was in heart failure. It began before the surgery she had. Then I went to Banfield, and they didn't tell me either they heard a Grade IV. I would have known she wasn't going to make it, and I wouldn't have seen her die so horribly in front of me, gasping twice for air, then her eyes rolled back in her head and she was still. CVETS pronounced her DOA. She would have never been well enough for either surgery or that ketamine. She had a lot of spunk, exercising though she had severe heart disease, multipe heart attacks damaging her heart and kidneys. My poor Sookie.