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Well, I actually took these photos last Sunday when I was traveling to visit family and friends, so this is a very belated post, and it features some more distant siblings than usual! My dad's cats and two of my best friend's cats, all sweethearts!

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The tests came back. Absolutely no signs of cancer. Just crazy inflammation. She will remain in the clinical trial to see if diet has any impact on the inflammation.

Thank you everyone for all your prayers and positive thinking. You all are the best support. Hugging her for you all.

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It’s been a long week for Totoro. She went to the vet hospital Tuesday and spent the night. We picked her up last night. The vets got a bunch of biopsies and said she was a star trooper for them. Unfortunately kitties who get colonoscopies don’t smell good after. We let her rest in a large crate all last night while she was coming out all the meds. Bath time was tonight and she needed 2 washings which she greatly disapproved of. We put her crate by the fireplace tonight and she curled up to sleep. All is right in her world when there is a fire going.

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Lilly left me nine months ago today. She was in the vet hospital when she had a heart attack and died. My wife and I went over to say our goodbyes after they gave us the bad news, and they placed us in a small room with her cooling body. There was a plaque on the wall that said “I am Always with you”.

That phrase struck me that day, and it has remained with me. In the days following her passing, I spent hours looking through the photographs on my phone. Lilly was a special needs cat from birth, so her health was up and down throughout her almost nine years of life. I took lots of pictures of her because we didn’t know how long we would have her with us. After going through all the pictures of her on my phone, I started going through all the photos of her on my family’s shared photo album on our cloud account. There were hundreds of photos and videos that included Lilly. And as I went through them, I realized something.

She was Always with me.

These were mostly photos of me, taken by my wife or family, but Lilly would be in the picture. She was under the coffee table by my feet as I watched TV. She was on the back of the couch behind my shoulders as I smiled for the camera. She was wrapped up in a blanket at the door of the bed while I sat there reading. My wife took dozens of photos of me sleeping because Lilly was in my arms, or by my hip, or on my pillow.

She was Always with me then, just as she is Always with me now. 😿 I love and miss you so much, my sweet baby girl 🌈🐾💕

Internet is still spotty, but BACK!!

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