Losing a Beloved Pet
Portrait of Hanzo from 2019. We lost our most handsome boy, Hanzo a few weeks ago. He was diagnosed with lymphoma (blood cancer) and they found tumours in his stomach. He was sick for a little then he would get better then sick again. He hated going to the vet, it's a stressful time for all of us when he needed to go. We took him to the vet earlier this year but they didn't have the drug to sedate him and then he got better after that before getting sick again. He stopped eating the last few days and we got him to the vet as soon as possible when that happened but as it turned out, there wasn't anything that could be done and it was decided that the kindest thing to do was to let him go before he went through any more pain. It has been incredibly hard. Rob and I miss him terribly and there's an emptiness there that doesn't want to go away. I find myself crying every few days when I think of him. Little figure I painted of him in 2019. We got him in early 2017 an...
