Helo, My name be Holly. My mama calls me Holly-bear. She wanted to tell all her frends about me but she askt me to write this cuz she has too many wet things comin from her eyes to see the skreen. I am almost 6 yeers old. I won't see my 7th birfday in March cuz I be gettin ready to go to da Bridge soon. Way too soon my mama says. She dint put my Christmas stocking away with da others this year. I wonder what she wants to do wit it. Before last yeer I was a health happy girl. Then I got da drenal disese. Dr Potts did a peration and took da drenal disease away. I was so happy. Did ya see my pikture on da January page of da SOS calendar. Can you pik out which one's me???? Yup, dats me in da middle. Mama took a funny pikture of me and I got my verry own page!! In July I started not feelin gud again, Dr Potts sayd i gots da lmfoma now. My mama had lots of those wet things frum her eyes when he told her dat. It's been 5 monz now and I'm getting so big and so tired. I wished I culd stay here for my whole page, but i dunt think I can do dat. My mama has taken da best care of me, but i still get more fatter and more tired. Der waz a poem she rote called Journey to da Bridge. I think mama and me have to make dat journey. She will hafta take me to see Dr. Potts so he can make me feel bedder forever. (I've herd of dah shot that makes you all better and gets you on yer way to da Bridge. I hope dou i start my journey here at home wit my brotheer Buddy and my sister Ruby. Mama said she won't let me hurt too much and we will go to Dr Potts if it gets bad. My Mama tries to tell me bout da Bridge but i don't wanna listen right now. I can still walk, although my back feet slides sometimes on dis floor. I still LOVE my gravy, and I still am what my mama calls, alert (doI don know what dat means but i think it'z a gud thing. My mama makeds lots of dos wet things when she tries to tell me. Lately I been more tired and a little week, but Mama comes and feeds me gravy lotz more often and now i feel a better! Why does mama make so many tear things? I herd the Bridge is a wonderful place where I will wait for her to come see me and all my other brudders and sisters. I herd i will get my beeutiful figure back and ALL my fur. Pleze tell Mama when I leave for da Bridge dat I will be fine, i will be better dan fine. And someday she will be here to see me again and she will be better dan fine too! My Mama says dat when I go to da Bridge she will tell you. She says her friends will help her just like my friends will help me when i get to da Bridge. I loves my mama so much, she knows dat. Mama has made a really gud life for me. Did you know dat i was found on a street corner in a cage wit Buddy. Dat was 5 yeers ago. Even dou I havnt been wit my mama for my whole life, she packed a lifetime of love for me and Buddy into dos yeers. Oh, dere she goes again with dos wet things! I hafta to go now, my paws are tired of makin dis leter. I told mama don make dos wet things, i'm going out a star!! Dats da best way. Hooda thought, me, found on a street corner would be Miss January!! ama be so proud!!! I tank my mama for all da love she has giv to me. I tank her for takin such gud care of me for des monz. Dr Potts said he didn't think i'd make it to Christmas, but I showd him, dint I?? It will be so hard for Mama to say bye to me, cuz we be together so much lately. She always holds me when she gives me my gravy and dat makes me feel so gud. She talks so softly to me, sometimez it tikkles my ear!!! Tank you for been mamas best frenz. She told me she luvs you very much. She be a very lukky mama to have such gud frenz lik you. Luv Holly-bear Pyron [Posted in FML 7295]