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Goodbye, dear Lucy Girl...
So sadly, this was very quick.
I just want to thank everyone, kitties and people alike for all the purrs and warm thoughts. I can't face responding to each of you just now, but I need to thank you, and tell you all how comforting it is, even through a computer screen, to know that others out there understand. Lucy and I went to Dr. Bonnie around 11 this morning - I had to come home alone. After a little bit of a rally and a last purr after work yesterday, she began having a hard time breathing in the middle of the night, and had a couple of accidents, much to her upset. I was on-call for work so was up and could keep cuddling and talking to her between pager beeps. I carried her around on her fleecy bed, office to livingroom to bedroom and back, and to her litter when she might need it. The last big move she made on her own was to leave the office and struggle her way up onto the bed one last time to sleep beside Adam while I was finishing up work. This morning she just cuddled, but struggled to breath and wouldn't touch water or her cat-milk treat at all. Never, ever underestimate the value of a cat-fanatic vet who will sit and cuddle your cats with you as long as you need to. Unlike with Lenny, where we knew nothing for sure and had to leave him to surgery, we knew this was the time for Lucy to go and I could stay with her all the way - the one regret I had about leaving Lenny for surgery. This was very sad, but less traumatic than I had feared. Bonnie had a room all set up with a big plushy fleece blanket, and I brought Lucy in with her own afghan, too. Bonnie petted her and gave her a tiny needle full of sedative first. Lucy didn't flinch, bless her tough little heart, and she wobbled back across the blankey towards me and relaxed under my hands. She drifted off to sleep with her eyes open, which was slightly disconcerting but that way I knew the last thing she was looking at was me. Bonnie let me be alone with her for a bit while she got the second IV shot ready. Her breathing was easier than it had been in a long time. The second shot wasn't noticeable for her or for me, and she just slowed down until she stopped. I kept petting her and for some bizarre reason told Bonnie about when I first got the two of them. We both laughed at my story of my first week with Lenny and Lucy. A tiny apartment barely bigger than the exam room, and two Siamese freed from a shelter cage for the first time in 3.5 months - they ran full-speed end-to-end for a week, and I had to lock them in the bathroom so I could sleep, they were so happy. Bonnie says she's now going to smile at the image of 4 big blue eyes blinking up out of the bathtub where they curled up to sleep, rejecting my warm kitty-bed I had placed there and making me feel terribly guilty those first few days together. Fortunately for all of us they calmed down and began sleeping at night - and were rarely not on my bed for the next 11 + years. Lucy was always the gentler and more reserved of the pair, waiting her turn behind Lenny and later behind Panda and Sprout too, for her treats or her petting - but when you picked her up, she was a buttery plush toy in your hands, and never, ever wanted to be put down. All the other cats eventually had somewhere else to go, but Lucy would never try to leave a hug of her own volition - and if I tried to put her down, she'd cling like she was afraid of the floor until I got her completely disentangled - then follow me around, waiting to be picked up again. Goodbye and sweet dreams, dear old Lucy-boo. My life would have been much less if I had not found you those years ago. Go find your Lenny-love, my heart is with you both. *snif* Johanna, Sprout (in a bag at my feet) and Panda ov-purrin-on-my-lap-Toes |
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"onlyTwoSeemsSoFewCats" wrote in message ... So sadly, this was very quick. I just want to thank everyone, kitties and people alike for all the purrs and warm thoughts. I can't face responding to each of you just now, but I need to thank you, and tell you all how comforting it is, even through a computer screen, to know that others out there understand. Gently Snipped ( OH we're so sorry to hear this - I'm still raw from losing Zachary last month and it's heartbreaking I know. Nothing can really be said that's adequate to compensate and console other than we know and understand exactly how you feel and offer purrs and best wishes. Meowmie Blurbubble & Clarence x --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.530 / Virus Database: 325 - Release Date: 22/10/2003 |
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"onlyTwoSeemsSoFewCats" wrote in message ... So sadly, this was very quick. I just want to thank everyone, kitties and people alike for all the purrs and warm thoughts. I can't face responding to each of you just now, but I need to thank you, and tell you all how comforting it is, even through a computer screen, to know that others out there understand. Gently Snipped ( OH we're so sorry to hear this - I'm still raw from losing Zachary last month and it's heartbreaking I know. Nothing can really be said that's adequate to compensate and console other than we know and understand exactly how you feel and offer purrs and best wishes. Meowmie Blurbubble & Clarence x --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.530 / Virus Database: 325 - Release Date: 22/10/2003 |
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Gently Snipped
( OH we're so sorry to hear this - I'm still raw from losing Zachary last month and it's heartbreaking I know. Nothing can really be said that's adequate to compensate and console other than we know and understand exactly how you feel and offer purrs and best wishes. Meowmie Blurbubble & Clarence x I couldn't have said it better myself. We lost Miss DD to CRF back in May, and it still hurts to think about it. Nothing as much as it did before, but I suspect that some degree of hurt will always be there. Purrs for your emotional recovery. Dan |
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( OH we're so sorry to hear this - I'm still raw from losing Zachary last month and it's heartbreaking I know. Nothing can really be said that's adequate to compensate and console other than we know and understand exactly how you feel and offer purrs and best wishes. Meowmie Blurbubble & Clarence x I couldn't have said it better myself. We lost Miss DD to CRF back in May, and it still hurts to think about it. Nothing as much as it did before, but I suspect that some degree of hurt will always be there. Purrs for your emotional recovery. Dan |
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onlyTwoSeemsSoFewCats wrote: Goodbye and sweet dreams, dear old Lucy-boo. My life would have been much less if I had not found you those years ago. Go find your Lenny-love, my heart is with you both. *snif* Johanna, Sprout (in a bag at my feet) and Panda ov-purrin-on-my-lap-Toes Purrpurrpurrpurrpurr. mms purrpurrpurr. Weze so sorry dere a bigbig hole in yur hart anti Johanna. Weze purrin dat Lucy is feeling bedder at da Rainbow bridj. Snowflake an Frieda |
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onlyTwoSeemsSoFewCats wrote: Goodbye and sweet dreams, dear old Lucy-boo. My life would have been much less if I had not found you those years ago. Go find your Lenny-love, my heart is with you both. *snif* Johanna, Sprout (in a bag at my feet) and Panda ov-purrin-on-my-lap-Toes Purrpurrpurrpurrpurr. mms purrpurrpurr. Weze so sorry dere a bigbig hole in yur hart anti Johanna. Weze purrin dat Lucy is feeling bedder at da Rainbow bridj. Snowflake an Frieda |
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onlyTwoSeemsSoFewCats wrote: Goodbye and sweet dreams, dear old Lucy-boo. My life would have been much less if I had not found you those years ago. Go find your Lenny-love, my heart is with you both. *snif* Johanna, Sprout (in a bag at my feet) and Panda ov-purrin-on-my-lap-Toes I'm so sorry Johanna. I know how painful this is. You wrote a beautiful tribute. Lucy and Lenny had good, happy lives. Kami -- email: furpods at mindspring dot com |
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onlyTwoSeemsSoFewCats wrote: Goodbye and sweet dreams, dear old Lucy-boo. My life would have been much less if I had not found you those years ago. Go find your Lenny-love, my heart is with you both. *snif* Johanna, Sprout (in a bag at my feet) and Panda ov-purrin-on-my-lap-Toes I'm so sorry Johanna. I know how painful this is. You wrote a beautiful tribute. Lucy and Lenny had good, happy lives. Kami -- email: furpods at mindspring dot com |
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Thank you, dear Kami -
Such a wonder is this community, that you keep offering what you can, even with your own losses. There has been alot of this recently, it seems. I did everything I could to make sure they lived like I wish all cats could. They were cherished and loved, they were my life even in times when I felt I had no other life worth the trouble of living. Even when Panda and Sprout, not to mention a handful of rats, a mouse, and tanks of fish joined us, my two Meezers remained Lord and Lady of the manor. Indeed, they became "Mr." Lenny and "Ms." Lucy to the rest of the zoo, from the day Panda met them, as she immediately showed both huge affection and respectful deference for their rulership of our home. Another playmate will be joining Spook and everyone else at the Bridge. Lucy's a little reserved, a rather dignified meezer-lady, but she does have a subtle sense of humour and mischief. Once she's found Lenny again I'm sure they'll be up to all sorts of things with our whole collective clowder there. Peace, everyone; Johanna KS wrote: gently snipped onlyTwoSeemsSoFewCats wrote: Goodbye and sweet dreams, dear old Lucy-boo. My life would have been much less if I had not found you those years ago. Go find your Lenny-love, my heart is with you both. *snif* Johanna, Sprout (in a bag at my feet) and Panda ov-purrin-on-my-lap-Toes I'm so sorry Johanna. I know how painful this is. You wrote a beautiful tribute. Lucy and Lenny had good, happy lives. Kami -- email: furpods at mindspring dot com |
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