I keep track of time like that. It's not Sept. 24, it's 3 months, 8 days. I can't believe it's been that long. At the same time, I can't believe time will go on like this. Soon it will be 6 months, then nine, then a year. On and on.I cry every day.

Magdalene

Magdalene - I know exactly how you feel. It's been 10 weeks since we had to have our Scooter pts. Like you, I cannot believe that the time has passed like this, but yet, it really is not that long ago. But, it feels like ages since I held Scooter in my arms. There is just somthing so wrong with time going on like this, if you know what I mean. Time just passes all to quickly. My heart breaks with yours. You are not alone.

Trish

Magdalene and Trish, I lost my beautiful boy Steve just yesterday. He was four**** and was taken by the neighbors dog. I forgive the dog ,he was just being a dog. Steve killed many mice and gophers. I'm always shocked at the intense pain of the loss of a loved one. I do know it get's better, but right now, you wonder how you'll survive. Thank you for your posts, and bless you. michaelT

Magdalene and Michael,
I'm very sorry for your losses. Please know your babies were a part of you, there was a very strong bond that death can't break. I lost my Precious to cancer and old age (19 years three days) on 06 August 2006. I mourn his loss but know he is safe on the "other side" and is whole again and no longer in any pain and is above all happy (though he misses me as much as I do him). I hug and kiss his urn every day. He has been blessed by a priest (see the thread Precious Has Been Blessed! for more details) and will be blessed again on St Francis' Feast Day on 04 October. I loved my sweet boy with all my heart and his death was just as hard on me as my mum passing two and a half years ago. I have adopted another cat (Patches) when I swore I wouldn't, but Patch needed a loving home and he has a lot of Precious' qualities...but he is no replacement, an addition, a "little brother" who respects Precious' memory.
It will take a while but you will see the light coming out of the darkness. You will smile again, in time. Just know God is with you and my thoughts and prayers are too!
Lisa

Magdalene & Michael,

I also am very sorry for your losses. Sometimes after a horrible loss it seems like time stands still. It has been 5 weeks and 2 days since I lost my beloved Dugan and as I look back on everything I marvel that I have gotten through it.

Michael, I so admire you for forgiving the dog that took Steve's life. You are so right that he was just being a dog but it does not make it hurt any less. When I was pretty young I had a similar experience and it was gut wrenching.

You both are in my thoughts and prayers for healing and peace.

Dugan's Mom
Krissyo

I, too, know that feeling of time both seeming to stand still, as if it SHOULD stay closer to the time when our babies were here...yet also seeming to march on, as if in disrespect of our babies' lives. It's a weird but common inner experience, and is one that serves to remind us of Einstein's theory that time really IS relative. Now if only I could learn to also manipulate time, so that both of my kidlets could still be here, and we could start our lives together all over again, but with what I know now instead of the lack of knowledge I started out with so long ago.....yet only yesterday.

Magdalene and Michael, my sincere condolences in your own losses, too, and I hope you both find some solace and understanding in this loving community, as I do.