A Very Long Night.
Nov. 20th, 2007 06:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI've been awake all night, which isn't too surprising considering when I woke up, but I've spent most of that time babysitting ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sucha, who isn't doing too well. She's gotten extremely frail and now there is a noticeable wobble to her when she walks. She's spent the last few hours sitting on a towel in the bathtub. She seems to prefer to be there when she's feeling bad. She's been crying for attention, so I've been spending most of the night sitting nearby, giving her attention, and doing some crying of my own.
Her disease seems to come and go in cycles. She'll seem to be recovering for a while, and then she'll get worse and stop eating for a few days. Eventually, she seems to regain her appetite and she starts eating again, but she never fully recovers the weight that she's lost. She's now gotten so skinny and tiny that you can feel all her bones when you pet her. As I sit and watch her in the bathtub, I can't help but wonder if she'll make it through the night and recover again, or if this is it for her.
Right now, outside my office window, the first real snow of the season is falling, and it echoes the cold I'm feeling inside.
Edit: She seems to have finally fallen asleep. I'm going to hope that this is a good sign. I'm sitting quietly in my office next door, in case she should wake up and call for me again.
sucha, who isn't doing too well. She's gotten extremely frail and now there is a noticeable wobble to her when she walks. She's spent the last few hours sitting on a towel in the bathtub. She seems to prefer to be there when she's feeling bad. She's been crying for attention, so I've been spending most of the night sitting nearby, giving her attention, and doing some crying of my own.Her disease seems to come and go in cycles. She'll seem to be recovering for a while, and then she'll get worse and stop eating for a few days. Eventually, she seems to regain her appetite and she starts eating again, but she never fully recovers the weight that she's lost. She's now gotten so skinny and tiny that you can feel all her bones when you pet her. As I sit and watch her in the bathtub, I can't help but wonder if she'll make it through the night and recover again, or if this is it for her.
Right now, outside my office window, the first real snow of the season is falling, and it echoes the cold I'm feeling inside.
Edit: She seems to have finally fallen asleep. I'm going to hope that this is a good sign. I'm sitting quietly in my office next door, in case she should wake up and call for me again.
