Hey Marissa, I cried reading your post this morning. I am hoping the kids who are testing across the library from me aren't watching. That old familiar lump kept popping up in my throat as I read along, first when you talked about giving him the only gift you could at that point, then when you spoke of laying him on his pillow while they did the catheter and crying, and then again when you spoke of your dad, and how wonderfully understanding and kind he was to you. That kind of kindness is just invaluable. I laughed when you said that you thought half the u.s. population is praying for you. I felt that way too when I came here when Cricket was sick. After he died, people here told me that he would visit me again. A few mornings after Cricket died, I woke up and looked down beside my bed and there was a cricket there. Granted, it was not alive, but still...usually we have a lot of crickets around november in texas and we just didn't have a cricket season that year. I hadn't seen any, so it shocked me to see this lone cricket by my bed. And Cricket was always 'different'...lol, so it would not surprise me that he would leave a dead cricket by my bed to try to communicate with me.
I just want to tell you how much I think of you that you did all you could for Slinky. Bless you for your unconditional and endless love for Slinky. :) Wendy "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it is the only thing that ever has!" ~~~ Margaret Meade ~~~ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html
