For anyone not following social media, we lost Abby on Friday. She'd gone in for a check up, was still a little off, we decided to do one more round of antibiotics and she had a reaction to the shot and they couldn't save her. The drug was RESFLOR. Please spread the word - DO NOT EVER USE ON LAMBS.
I have taken this incredibly hard. And I'm going to leave it at that.
I had not yet done her week three recap and had been looking forward to working on that Friday afternoon. I didn't think I could do that now and added that to the list of things I was angry that Abby and I were cheated out of.
I never told her adoption story. I never told the story about us almost going to Chicago. Her peeing in my Cheerios one morning. I never took a funny video of her eating vanilla wafers. I'd never even taken an official photograph of her. She was never going to get a mug shot. Be on the Christmas card. Get her first hair cut. Grow up.
Reg talked me into going ahead with the recap "memory". Abby had earned that and her life should be celebrated. I figured if I could get through that I could make her a mug shot, too. My brain is still too fizzy though and all I could think of for her "rap sheet" was her name. It's taken me all afternoon to write these few paragraphs.
I will try to come back and tell her stories. They were all sweet and funny. I am sorry this is not. So, so sorry.
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