Best Things About Crystal:
1. Her yawn was adorable. You couldn’t see her yawn without saying “Awww, how cute!” and hugging her. I taught her (without meaning to) to yawn whenever she wanted attention. When she wanted attention she would just yawn and she got it! When she got a lot of attention, she would yawn a bunch of times to get even more, she loved being in the spotlight. She would always give me a little smile when she yawned and I hugged her. It just made my day when she yawned for me. For anyone. Seriously, if you were having a bad day, and it was cold, and rainy and you saw Crystal in a little ball on the couch she would look up quickly and do this adorable yawn and you felt suddenly so much better.
It was amazing.
2. Her warm body. She had such a warm body, that when you hugged her, it was like she warmed your heart. Whenever I was feeling bad, I would hug her and just feel so warm! She had such a soft, warm body. I can remember it so well. She smelled so good too.
She was just so cuddly.
3. She was always there for the family. When I was sick, and I would stay home, she would always jump up on the couch with me and cuddle with me. She would stick by me until I was better. She would even sleep with me at night in my bedroom, even though she didn’t like my bedroom. Whenever I was feeling sad, she was always there to comfort me. She always looked at me when I talked to her, and I felt as if she really did understand me.
I believe she did.
4. She was so playful. She would always wanna play with you if you gave her the chance. If you were feeling bad, she would lick you and then run and get her blanky (Her favorite toy) and come and play tug a war with you. She always made everyone feel better.
5. She was like a wonderful alarm clock. A lot of times on the weekends, she would be really hyper and she would run into my room and jump on my bed and lick me and lay down by me in the covers. It was a wonderful way to start the day.
How she died:
Crystal had always gotten sick at least once during the year with the same symptoms. Throwing up, not eating, stuff like that. A week before August 20, 2002, she started throwing up and not eating. So, we assumed it was because of the same sickness and went to the vets to get her meds. That worked for a little while, but she still was sick. She started to cough and she tried to cough something up, at least thats what it seemed. The vets didn’t know what to do since they tried a lot of tests. So, they did an X-ray and
we were waiting for it to come.
It was August 20, 2002. I woke up around 11:00 PM and went downstairs to try and find baby Crystal. I found my mom and she told me that my dad had already taken her to the vets. I didn’t worry since the vets just expected her to have Pneumonia. So, I ate something and took a shower and did everything to get ready for the day. I was going to go to the mall to meet my boyfriend. So, I called him and my mom drove me to the mall. About four hours after that, my mom picked me up. I met my boyfriend on aim and I was only on there for about an hour before the phone rings.
I assumed it’s the vets.
My mom came into the room in about 20 minutes, crying. She told me that Crystal had cancer and that she was going to die and we had to leave right now to go say goodbye. I typed “Crystal is dying…having to go say goodbye..bye” to my boyfriend and I put on my shoes and left.
I started to cry when I got in the car and cried the rest of the way there. I didn’t even care about my makeup. We went right in to the room and saw Crystal plugged up to a lung machine and she was sedated, so she couldn’t really see us there, but we knew she knew we were there. For about a half an hour we kissed her and said our goodbyes. This was one of the first times I saw my dad cry a lot. The vet asked us if we were ready and my parents said yes but I just started crying more. We finally were ready and the vet stuck the shot into my baby Crystal and we waited for about a minute and Crystal jerked.
The vet petted her and all of a sudden Crystal started coughing up blood and foaming at the mouth. I started crying more and after she stopped coughing up blood, we asked if she was gone and the vet nodded. We stayed for about two more minutes and my parents couldn’t stay anymore and started to leave. My mom had to practically pull me out of the room.
I called my boyfriend when I got home. Then, started this web site to help me deal with this loss. The vets had told us while we were saying goodbye to Crystal that they thought she had Pneumonia since the X-ray showed that something was in the lungs. She started to get better at the Vets at around lunch time. They had fed her some wet food and
she ate it.
A little bit later, she wanted to go to the bathroom and she was walking around and she seemed a lot better. Then she started foaming at the mouth and coughing up blood and thats when they knew that she had lung cancer and there was nothing they could do. Even if they had found the cancer early, they would have had to put her to sleep. The next day I woke up and my dad was coming home with Crystal. She was in a box that was placed in a garbage bag. My dad opened it up and I screamed and ran inside crying. I came back outside, still crying and tried to put her tummy but it was so cold. I went back inside, coming back out once and a while to pet her.
My dad finished the casket and we all back out into the garage and decorated the top of the casket (go look at the photos section). We went outside and buried her under her favorite tree that she used to bury some of her old toys under. In her casket we placed her toys and her treats with her. We put her on top of her little blanket
that she would sleep on.