Our granddaughter feeding Sunny
My granddaughter and her Mommy moved away a couple of weeks back, as I had written they were going to, and I have been too blown away by it to write about it. I don't know how good it is to put all the emotions of one's life up on the internet for the whole world to see anyway. We are adjusting, but it is a slow and sad process. We miss them very much. There's nothing that could possibly fill the hole that their leaving has made in our lives. The love of our granddaughter in particular was an immense blessing to us. We will still see them (they are now 5 hours away), but the happy frequency of a couple of days a week of caring for her is now a thing of the past. For lack of a better term, I am broken hearted.
Then one of our birds, Sunny, took ill a couple of weeks ago. It was obvious something was very wrong, as her normally large appetite dwindled and she spend most of her time hunched over on the floor of the cage. We live in an area where bird veterinarians are rare, but we took her to the one vet we have always used, and she put Sunny on a round of antibiotics, which seemed to help at first. Then she got worse, and my wife found a vet in the next largest town over from us who had a lot of experience with birds, and we took her there to see if anything could be done.
Again, at first it seemed she was responding to the treatment, and they seemed to find that the problem had something to do with her liver. Then, today, things took a really bad turn, and we had to make a decision about what to do. There seemed to be little alternative to her suffering except to do what we were loathe to consider all along. We told them to put her to sleep.
I feel very overwhelmed. Life seems to have a higher opinion of our abilities to handle sadness than is warranted.
Sunny was a sweet and happy bird, whose name really suited her. She will be very missed here at the birdhaus. I hold her in my heart. May she rest in peace.
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