I would like to thank Sara for her beautiful greeting of my precious boy Cole. It was the most touching ever. Unfortunately I have another loss, this one so hard I can barely type this without tears choking me. Yesterday my sweet little angel Gracie went to be with her other friends. After Coles gang all left for the Bridge I put him with Gracie for the last year or so. I guess she just didn't want to live alone without him and yesterday she left too. I have written several times about Gracie on here. She was rescued in 2004 from a horrible situation. She was in a hamster cage about 5 inches of feces on the floor and abused so bad. When she came to live with us she would bit to the bone anyone who touched her. We would have to use welding gloves to hold her. Finally after several weeks of me holding her several times a day. I took the gloves off and she bit, I didn't put her down, I just kept holding her. Everyday for a week I would pick her up and love her and she would bit the crap out of me. At the end of a week I picked her up and she didn't bite. I knew we had crossed a special place. From that point on she never bit me again, she bit everyone else, especially men. I found out also that she was deaf, and that it was a common thing with albino's. So we learned to first tolerate each other and then to love each other. Two years ago she was diagnosed with adrenal disease and we started treatment, we had treatment for a year and then it no longer was working so we stopped and decided to let nature take its course. Gracies hair had all come out but she seemed to be doing well. She developed arthritis in her back feet and had a little trouble walking so I helped her. But then last week she developed an ear infection. I cleaned and medicated, but yesterday I noticed a big lump behind that ear and it was so painful for her. I took her to the vet to have it looked at, there she passed away. The vet said it wouldn't have mattered he couldn't have fixed her lump because of her poor health. I knew that this would be hard because that little girl fought so hard to live before she came to me, and fought so hard to learn to trust again. I will miss my little lady so much. So Ms Sara please watch for my pink eyed albino angel and tell her her momma will never get passed this. Thanks Kim [Posted in FML 6796]