Just popping up to say thank you to everyone for your incredibly kind words about Louis. It's been a hard, sad day, with many more like it ahead. Louis brought me such great happiness, and I'm finding it difficult to believe that he is gone.
However, I do want to let you know that, as per my posts yesterday, I was made very clear in my mind by the vets that there was no other option for my beautiful boy. He had indeed sustained irrepairable nerve damage, affecting his bowel and bladder, and the damage to his pelvis was such that even surgery was unlikely to have fixed it and may have led to further nerve damage. His luck—and he tested that luck, it must be said, many, many times—simply ran out.
I am grateful to the people who helped him, and grateful that I had the chance to say goodbye. He did not suffer any pain after the initial accident, thanks to the excellent care he received, and he was not yet suffering from the effects of the toxicity his injuries would have inevitably caused.
I cannot thank enough everyone who has been so unreservedly kind and loving, who have shared my hopes and sorrow, and who loved my most excellent boy, even if you'd never met him.
Most of all, I am thankful to have had him in my life, if only for such a short time. Loving is short, forgetting is long, according to Naruda. For forgetting, read grieving. This is going to be hard.
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