It's done

[xiphias]

The Woburn Referral Animal Hospital treats people and animals with care and respect.

It took just a few seconds. They put the barbiturates in, and Boopsie was gone in just a couple seconds. Which means that she was already very weak and ready to go. She was obviously not holding on to life very hard.

We know it was the right decision, and we feel grief. And we know that the grief is appropriate and will pass in time. Right now, it's just a matter of feeling what we feel.

Don't feel bad for us -- we are dealing with it well. Which means that we're crying a lot, which is what "dealing with it well" means.

If you want to feel bad that you either never met Boopsie or that you won't see her again, that's fine, of course. But you don't have to feel bad on our behalf. We are grieving as is appropriate and good.

Comments

[marquisedea.livejournal.com]

Having gone through it, I know how much it hurts, and I still feel my own little one's absence, and knowing that you're feeling that pain is what makes me sad. Best wishes.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

It's different, and worse, for you. It wasn't Spot's time. Spot shouldn't have died then. Boopsie lived her full life. She died when she should, of age.