During Chemo, My Golden Retriever Did the Same Strange Thing Every Single Morning. I Thought It Was a Quirk. Then My Vet Told Me What She Was Probably Smelling — and Why She Stopped the Day I Got Better.

Synopsis

I need to tell you about Daisy before I tell you the rest, because Daisy is not an unusual dog and that is somehow the whole point. Daisy is a Golden Retriever. She was six years old when this started. I got her as a puppy from a breeder outside the Quad Cities, the ordinary way, for the ordinary reasons — I had wanted a dog, I had finally had the life that…