Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I feel a personal loss after watching Cheeta for som many years here. We share your tears. ric > On Oct 31, 2017, at 2:23 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > Many of you have already seen this on Facebook, but for the rest of the > list: > > 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 > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information