Goodbye

Today, I said goodbye to my gold-eyed baby. I boarded Yin at Gentle Care as I usually do when I go out of town; I was to pick him up this morning. I received a call this morning that when Dr Blackburn came in at 630a to open(he is always the first one there), he found that Yin had a seizure during the night. He was barely alive when they started working on him. He was responding to treatment, but never fully regained cognizance, and while his blood sugar had stabilized, it was not consistent. From the sounds of things, it sounds like his blood sugar dropped for whatever reason, and he might have had a stroke on top of that. When he started to crash again this afternoon, they couldn't save him.

I got the call at 1pm.

I thank whatever power was keeping me safe on the drive there and back because I had at least six near miss moments where by rights I should have been hit.

I am going to have him cremated. I have to rearrange my budget, but I have the funds to do it, thanks to a very kind friend. He'll be cremated and then I will bring him home.

The Buddha Cat has ascended. May his next life be free of pain. So Mote It Be.