Six-Word Saturday Meme #31

Posted by: Allison Helps Cats on: December 28, 2013

• In: Teasers
• 6 Comments

Endings always come far too fast

This past year, two of our pets have died. The third and last of my guinea pigs died just before my graduate class in June. One morning Bumblebee woke up with her back legs paralyzed. Within a couple of weeks, she developed gastric stasis. Then one night she started to make strange sounds. I picked her up, held her for a short time, and she died in my arms. The house feels forever quieter without the squeaks of Bumblebee as she rearranged her cage.

Our precious cat of eight years, whom we adopted as a stray, took sick with kidney failure in December. When she was first diagnosed, I prayed for more time with Lucy. We were granted two more weeks, but she spent most of that time struggling with her health, and lost her fight the morning of December 22. While I count as special the one day that Lucy seemed to rebound and once again snuggled with me, even two years would not have been enough. Even as my husband and I look at adoptable cats, all I really want is for Lucy to be with me. Endings always come far too fast.

That’s my report for this week. What about yours?

Tags: Allison's Book Bag, grief and death, reviews of books for young people, Six Word Saturday Meme, teaching of writing certificate