May the angels give you and Spencer peace and love.
If you have men who will
exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of
compassion and pity, you will have men who
will deal likewise with
their fellow man.
St.
Francis
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From: "Nina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; "Jasmine Indra"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Connie Feick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:08 PM
Subject: Spencer
The house call vet is coming at around three this afternoon.
Spencer continues to astound me, both with his athletic ability and the
way he expresses his love for me. He was restless all day yesterday and
last night around midnight, I gave him a quarter tablet of Valium in the
hope it would help him rest more easily. I'm not sure if it helped or not.
Sometime during the night I felt him stir and he actually jumped through
the window onto the top shelf,(we have an enclosed habitat attached to
that side of the house). I thought he just wanted to be in the night air.
No, he actually traversed the shelves down to the ground and used the
litter box! I couldn't see where he was, but decided to leave him be for a
while. I got up and worked on some accounting, intending to retrieve him
when I went back to bed. I entered my bedroom and was floored to see he
had made it back to bed all by himself! What a cat!
This morning I woke up to find him nuzzled in next to me. I stroked and
cooed to him. He was so weak that he could no longer support his
weight. He drank from the bowl of water I put under his nose and
settled back into my body. All night he'd been crawling to my hand to
place his head in it. I feel so blessed in knowing him. Such a loving
soul. Finally he told me that he wanted to curl up on my messy closet
floor. I just checked on him and when he saw me he struggled to his
feet and crawled out of the nook he was in to greet me. He drank a
little more water before I left him to tend to the other animals. I
keep telling him, it's almost over. That I'm sure he'll be back when
he's ready, that I know we will always be together joined in the love we
share for each other. I'm going to miss what I still think of as his
perfect body though.
Nina
