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Our precious Miko
Gary brought you home from the ballfield. The scorekeeper said you had been there for 3 nights going back and forth between the dugouts competing for the love of all those big, brawny guys playing softball. Gary said the guys argued over who got to "sit the bench" each inning to stay in the dugout to cuddle you.
As we already had a number of "rescues" at home I vowed to take you to the shelter the next morning. It never happened! Gary was right - there was just something special about this kitten-of-kittens. How we came to know that and appreciate and adore you. I work in the medical field and didn't worry when our vet softly said he detected a heart murmur. Lot's of my patients had heart murmurs and I knew that was no big deal. At least not for humans. Little did I know that it is very different in the feline world. But we went on for 5 delightful years. I am glad to say we never took you for granted. We had rescued MANY kittens throughout the years and we marvelled at our luck in finding you...or did you find us? You truly were the ultimately "unique, special, amazing little friend" in our lives. We never dreamed you would be alive and feisty one moment and then just somply gone the next - in the blink of an eye. Doc says he figured it was a heart attack.
But you were only 5 years old!!
Doc says that is very typical of heart-murmur situations in cats. Sudden death occurs at 3-4 years of age!!
I think I am glad I didn't know about this. I would have been in dread for years. Hard to understand why we should be so blessed only to have you taken away so soon and so suddenly. Yet I am glad God chose us to have and know you for those short years. You have been gone for 3 years now and the pain is the same. Only the thought of a righteous God who originally created all living things to have an eternal "breath of Life" lets us accept what we must, in the thought of again holding you on a distant day. We love you so much little MIko, and we will miss you until that day!!
Mommy Sue
Papa Gary--
