Loss

[ladysprite]

Last month I noticed that my little orange cat wasn't eating as well as usual. Nothing else, but being the paranoid mommy I am, after a day or so I brought him in to work for some tests. By the end of the week I had the answer - pancreatic carcinoma, already metastasized to his liver. When even the oncologist's only response is, 'wow, that's a crap disease,' you know you're in trouble.

He rallied at first, with some basic supportive care, but when I got home this weekend I realized he had taken a major turn for the worse. This morning when I woke up, and saw how he was breathing... It couldn't wait any longer. I took him into work before my shift started, and did the only thing I still could to help him.

Goodbye, Tristan. My peanut gallery, my weirdo, my wall-licking strange orange beast. You were awesome, and I love you.

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Comments

[guendalina.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry for your loss.

[lucasthegray.livejournal.com]

*Hugs*

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry.

*gentle hugs*

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[dreda.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry.

[iamjw.livejournal.com]

*hugs offered* I'm sorry.

[hungrytiger]

*hugs*

There's never much good to say in situations like this (as I'm sure you know better than I), but I do want to let you know that you are one of the most wonderful people I know with a heart that is full of love. Tristan was a lucky cat to know you.

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry.

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. He sounds like he was special. (Wall-licking?) I know he was loved.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. On the positive side, you gave him a bit of extra time and love.

[lolleeroberts.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry for your loss. Little orange weirdos have a way of stealing our hearts.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

My deepest condolences on your loss. It's never easy to make that decision, but sometimes it's the only moral thing to do.

[jducoeur]

Hugs and condolences...

[crash-mccormick.livejournal.com]

Our condolences.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

Beautiful Bast giving Life,
Hail Bast, in visible form,
Casting light into the darkness,
I have come before you,
The path is opened,
The earth is at peace.

Lady Bast, accept Your child Tristan into Your presence. Grant him peace and healing, and comfort the hearts of those who miss him.

::hugs::

[bess.livejournal.com]

Big Hugs.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for your loss. *hugs*

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

So very sorry. Hugs and hugs.

[leanne-opaskar.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm sorry about about your kitty. ): *hugshugs*

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Hugs, and comfort, offered. I'm so sad for you and poor Tristan.

[droewyn.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. I met him a couple times. He was a sweetheart.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

*hugsyoutightly*

[auntiemame67.livejournal.com]

*hug*. Just *hug*
I'm so sorry for your loss.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I am sorry. You have my great sympathy, and lots and lots of *hugs*.

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

Oh...sorry. Sorry. So very very sorry.

[asdr83.livejournal.com]

HUG

[jdulac.livejournal.com]

my deep sympathies...

[gyzki.livejournal.com]

Hugs and sympathies.
I'm so sorry.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

The thing to remember, I think, is what his life would have been without you-- short and empty.

You gave him life and love for as long as you could. His life was better because of you. His life WAS because of you.

That it wasn't as long as you'd have wanted does not diminish that. Remember him with love.

[mermaidlady]

I'm so sorry.

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Very sorry for your loss.

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

*comfort*

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

I'm so very sorry.