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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>My guess is Emma’s mom suspected
that something like this might happen, and decided to go on her vacation
anyway. Otherwise, why the “put her in the freezer” instructions?
That was very, very odd. People do funny things sometimes, for reasons
even they don’t understand -- if she has any questions or recriminations,
have her call the vet, who can explain exactly what was wrong. Again, my
guess is your friend will be okay with what occurred, it saved her from making
the extremely difficult decision to have Emma put to sleep. You and the
vet did the very best you could for Emma, and you can be sure Emma knew it. Sometimes
there are no good options, and you just have to do the best you can. Emma
knew she was loved, that’s all that matters. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a href="mailto:a.woodrum@sbcglobal.net">a.woodrum@sbcglobal.net</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
dailydrool-bounces@dailydrool.org [mailto:dailydrool-bounces@dailydrool.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Hinchliffe@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 19, 2009
12:46 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> dailydrool@dailydrool.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Dailydrool] Emma who was
waiting for her Mom to come home ...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>She didn't make it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Oh, my friends and DD family, I am just
broken-hearted and can't stop crying as I cradle her. Sweet Emma tried so
hard through this long, endless week to hang on for her Mom to come home.
The vets tried so hard, doing everything they could to keep her comfortable and
peaceful. And I just held her and loved her and prayed for her and never
left her alone, not for a minute, this whole awful week. Now her Mom will
come home and her house and her heart will be empty, and I'll have to pick her
up at the airport and somehow find the words to tell her that we have lost
forever our precious Emma, who I knew from the minute she was born and who
spent almost every day with me; dear dear Emma whom I adored; courageous,
loving little Emma who tried with every ounce of her special spirit to wait to
see her Mom once last time.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I did everything I could this week to try
to make it so that she could go to the bridge while in her Mom's embrace.
I know I will forever examine and question every move I made. I tried to
do everything for her, out of love. I have been so exhausted and
anguished that I fear I wasn't thinking straight, and I just hope that I didn't
do anything wrong for her, she deserved pure love and peace and happiness, our
poor brave little girl.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>We were lying in bed, she was in my arms,
and I'd drifted into sleep, when suddenly I woke up, as I have so many times
every night this week, whenever she moved or her breathing changed. This
time, I knew. For about 15 minutes I held her tightly and talked to her
as her breathing changed, kept telling her that her Mom was on her way to her,
that her Mom loved her, that I loved her, that she was the sweetest little
bunny girl anyone could have, and I just talked and hugged so that the last thing
she heard and felt was pure love, and then she was gone, in my arms, gone,
gone, and I can scarcely breathe through the pain and the tears and the grief
and the wondering.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>You have been my strength and my support
through all of this, I really couldn't have made it this far without your love
and your e-mails and your insights and your caring. You reassured me that
anything done from love is the right choice. I wish you all could
have known Emma, oh I can't believe I'm talking about her in the past tense, I
can't believe this ... <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I don't know how to get through this
night with her right here next to me, but not coming back, and how to get
through tomorrow and then tomorrow night telling her Mom, and then all the time
to come.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Thank you, all of you, my dearest DD
friends, I love you and thank you and ask that you pray for Emma, on her way to
the Bridge, where my Blueberry, who also loved her so, waits.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Heartbroken,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Beth<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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