So Kim bought Sasha for me back for our one year anniversary of dating. Growing up the only type of pets we ever had were fish, so a kitten was definitely something that was brand new to me. Kim had purchased her from Bevan's, a small feed store close to our house for twenty-five bucks. Well little did we know that she wasn't well at the time and after a quick trip to the weekend emergency vets and over three hundred dollars later, we knew we wanted to take care of her forever. Sasha was a great kitten. I would literally be able to sit and play fetch with her with a small balled up piece of paper. I would throw the paper from my bed into the hallway and she would run and get it and bring it back to me and be ready for more. It was crazy. She was always jealous of Kim too. If we had some of out stuff on top of the dressed, Sasha would jump up there and knock anything of Kim's off the dresser while leaving all of my stuff untouched. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen. Sasha had been pretty healthy her whole life. Kim and I were sitting around a couple of days ago, reminiscing about how lucky we had been with her. We took her in for a few things here and there, but nothing ever big considering she lived to be 18. I'm not sure when we noticed a change in her, but we were hesitant to take her in as with her age we didn't want to really have the doctor's poking and prodding her. One day we finally took her in as we noticed she was using the bathroom a lot. At that time we found out she had a hyperthyroid which we promptly put her on medicine for. After some time, we got her checked out again and found out the medicine was working and her levels were getting back to normal. I was very relieved at that time. We knew being 18 that we were definitely lucky for her to have lived that long, but I had heard of cats living longer so we just enjoyed every day that we had with her. A couple of weeks ago we started noticing a change in her eating habits and that is when things just went down hill very quickly. We tried everything we could think of or anything that was suggested. At one point it reminded of when Vito was nearing his end. The last days we had with her, she followed me around everywhere. I was spending all the time I could with her. She was very special to me and I just wanted to make sure she realized that. At the end, we could both tell how tired she was. She had nothing left to give us, but she had already given us so much. Sasha, you will be greatly missed and I will always remember you. I can't think of too many times in life that you get to spend so much time with someone, but the time with her was some of the best of my life. Sasha, I love you and miss you a lot.
I can't thank Kim enough for bringing her into our lives. When she was sitting in bed with her that first day when I got home from the gym I had totally mixed emotions. Never having had a real pet before I didn't know what to do or think. But the times we had with Sasha over the years were incredible. Too many to write about and all of them I want to never forget.
Kim, thank you for everything, I love you more than you will ever know.
