frankie
may 18, 2012 - july 8, 2013
our handsome frankie had to be put to sleep today. completely unexpectedly. he showed up with a sore right paw that he wouldn't put any weight on, so i made him an appointment at the vet today. i could see a puncture wound on the leg and thought he'd been in a cat fight. it turned out his leg was rather badly broken and the vet thought that even if we went for a very expensive specialist treatment, he would still always hobble around on it and it would be months of treatments and pain for him, with a big risk of him not being able to live his carefree cat life when it was all over. so i made the hard choice and said goodbye to him through a flood of tears. it was far too soon, but the life he had was a very good one and he was very loved. and he will be sorely missed. sorely, sorely missed.
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so this is why, despite being a typist, i still love to write by hand.
