Friday, June 20, 2008
Well, it's been one month since our first day without Sugar. It's been a pretty ok time; I only had one real breakdown about a week after she passed and cried my heart out.
I still couldn't clean her cage until this past Monday. I cleaned it the day she died, and she was only in it for 6 hours or so, so it wasn't dirty. But it did need to get cleaned and put into storage. Again.
Ironically, two days before she passed we bought fresh food, a huge bag of bedding and a couple bags of treats. I listed them on our local CraigsList for free on Monday and they were snapped up within an hour. I hope the 3 ratties that got all that stuff enjoy it.
Now all reminders of Sugar are put away or gone. I can't believe it took me nearly a month to do it. I do have some cute pictures/stories that I'll post about her in the future. I definitely don't want this site to go stale.
I also got a sympathy card from the first vet we took her to. I called to cancel her surgery the day after she died, so maybe that's how they knew. It was nice, though, that everyone signed it.
And time marches on...
Sugar and J cuddling the first week we had her.
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