I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Blue - I'm so sorry - hugs to both of you - hang in there, he is not suffering any more.

Kam - they were in different breasts. They missed the IDC when the ILC was diagnosed - it was found a year later at a much more thorough screening place. You can see it on my mammo from the year before, but it only showed on one view so they didn't report it. We guess that the chemo I had for the first one kept it from spreading and growing. It was a type that is usually found in lots of lymph nodes, so I was lucky my nodes were clear.

I'm all clean now - feels so good, my hair was wet from perspiration after doing all that work.

(((((Blue, Ray and Lila))))) I am so very sorry, Blue. He was such a good little boy, and he lived a good life with you, Ray and Lila. They give us so much love ... It is so hard to give it back and let them go.



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Blue, I am so sorry for your loss. I still get upset when I think of my Athena. I know you will treasure the fond memories.

Oh Blue, so very sorry. Sending hugs.

Blue, Ray and Lilah----so sorry, so,sad----kad2kar

Blue, I am so so sorry for your loss.  Losing a furbaby tears out your heart.  They give us so much love, and we have them for such a short time.  He was a such an adorable little dog.

(((Blue)))

Blue .. I am so sorry for the loss of dear sweet Virgil.  I'll never forget what a wonderful boy he was.  I loved being with him and Lilah in Niagara Falls and remember when he started honking at those strangers ... never laughed so hard!  I know you miss him terribly ... and my heart goes out to you and Ray.

much love,

Bren

Chicadee....glad you found the Rainbow Bridge poem.  Dh and I have lost so many fur babies through the years.  I'm sure many would laugh at us ( as though we would ever care ) but we have a burial ceremony when they pass....offering a prayer to the animal spirits to whisper daily in their ears for us that we still love and miss them dearly and will come to reclaim them back once more when we cross over into the next universe.  We are both usually bawling through most of the time it takes to properly bury them. 

It takes a while for the huge discomfort of loss to wear down.  I know eventually though, I'll think of them without crying and feeling emptiness.  I'll think good things --- like running and playing again

Just a note here......I now have a cat ( very small tortoiseshell ) and her name is Dahlia.  I volunteered at our local no kill animal shelter.  She and some siblings were dropped off by some ( pig of a person if you ask me ) lady who had Dahlia and three others crammed into a tiny crate.  We did not have room, but as she was yelling and arguing so much I said I would bring them to my house and foster them here until room at the facility became available. 

Turns out......they all had such diarrhea they could not be taken anywhere.  Little Dahlia was the worst....it was three long months of meds.  She would pass diarrhea just sitting in the crate.  I used to take a towel and wrap her ( so to keep clean while working ) and hold her close and tell her how beautiful she was and how I hated to see her suffering ( anus swelled four times the normal size ) but I was counting on her to get well and I would bring her home with me as soon as she did.  She has been with us for nearly a year.  She is still a very small cat....but zooms around the house so fast you are not sure what passed you.  She is quite intense, but seems to know when I say Dahlia with a certain lilt, she looks up at me just like she used to when she was in her sick room crate at the shelter.  I am and will continue to be richer than so many others -- just for the fur babies. 

Jackie

I still have the ashes of my three last German Shepherds, Shantih, Zeus, and Nikki, and my precious kitty, Mozart, in boxes on a shelf.  I couldn't bring myself to bury them here, since we've been thinking of moving for retirement and I just feel that they should be with me.  I have two beautiful cats now, but the ones we lose make a hole that never completely heals.  Every now and then I give each box a stroke.

Thinking of you and Virgil, Blue.

Blue - more {{{{{hugs}}}}} for you and your family.  These are the events we dread for our beloved pets and ourselves, but the blessings they give us everyday they are on the planet makes it all worth it.  I was not around this thread for Virgil's history, but 5 years is so young.  I don't know much about him,  except that he sounded like a character.  Honking the horn at strangers? LOL  xxox

I also have my beloved Cairn Cameo's remains, who passed 10 years ago, in a box. Keep thinking I should scatter her remains on a nearby pond, but haven't been able to do it.  

Blue, still thinking of you and Ray and Lilah and what a sweet, funny, dear dog Virg was.  It was way too soon to lose him.  Enveloping all of you in a big hug.

Did someone say Thanksgiving is next week?!?  No cooking for me this year - we're flying on Thanksgiving morning to spend the holiday with relatives - and I kind of miss the preparations. 

Kind of.

L