[Leica] Nathan's PAD 30/10/2017: goodbye to Cheeta

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

My condolences to all of you in the Wajsman family.

 From personal experience, I know how wrenching a loss like that can be. 
It is astonishing how pets wriggle into our lives and make themselves 
essential parts of it. My wife and I still miss Kofi, our late lamented 
cat, despite having a young replacement for the last couple of years.

Douglas

On 31/10/2017 06:23, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Many of you have already seen this on Facebook, but for the rest of the 
> list:
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> Yesterday we lost our beloved doggie Cheeta, our companion for more than 
> 16 years. Here are two images from the beginning and end of her life.
>
> This one was taken in October 2001 in our house in Zurich. My wife has 
> just given 5-month old Cheeta a bath and is now drying her with a thick 
> towel:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-r4Fc4gw/A
>
> Cheeta has been declining for the past couple of months?we all get older, 
> after all. But the decline accelerated in the past two weeks, to the point 
> where Cheeta stopped eating and was not moving around a lot, although 
> there were occasional flashes of activity. So on Saturday morning our vet 
> for the past 10 years, Isabel, did a blood test and a sonogram. The 
> sonogram showed a tumor on her liver, but what was causing her symptoms 
> was that her kidneys were no longer functioning?the same illness that 
> killed our kitty a last year. Here, Isabel is extracting the blood sample:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-D7WL7pD/A
> Cheeta hung on for the weekend, but yesterday it was time. I left work 
> early, picked up Monica at the university, and the three of us went to the 
> vet together to accompany Cheeta on her final journey.
>
> This morning, for the first time since 2000, I woke up in a house without 
> pets.
>
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
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