02/01/2025
If you recently placed a phone order and I cried while we talked (you know who you are), or you see a tear rolling down our cheek at the restaurant, please know we're grieving. We apologize for the content of this post. Today's will not be cheery or witty, but rather emotional and from the heart. Today we share this to help with our personal healing and to acknowledge we're only human... A few days ago we lost a member of our family and we are devastated. We may not have human kids, but our 4-legged furbabies fill that role in our heart and home. (If you know, you know.) Rather than re-typing/explaining what happened, below are two recent posts shared from my personal FB page...
12/25/24
Our Christmas was spent at the animal emergency hospital with Zeus. Emergencies don't care what day it is or what plans you have. Zeus was diagnosed with epilepsy 3 months ago. The seizures are devastating to witness, because you can't do anything except let it run its course as his tiny body convulses. We don't get much sleep these days because the "episodes" can happen anytime (including 11pm and 4am). No trigger. No warning. There's no direct cause or cure. The multiple prescriptions haven't been helping adequately, and this time he didn't recover well enough from an episode. They're keeping him overnight and suggest an MRI to see what is/isn't happening in the brain. We had to open a new medical credit card just to cover the cost of the overnight hospital stay ($2500). Just a reminder to be grateful for life, for health, and time with your loved ones. Any well wishes and prayers for our little guy would be appreciated 🙏
12/28/24
Update on our perfect little angel, Zeus:
Trying to figure out why God, creator, the universe, fate, or whatever "force" that's in control allows such heinous things to happen to such innocence in the world...
In less than 24hrs the $2500 turned into $11k in veterinary medical debt. We maxed out two credit cards to do so -- but how do you put a price tag on pure, innocent, unconditional loving, precious, young life?
Turns out Zeus didn't have epilepsy, but instead the MRI showed a rapidly growing brain tumor. Inoperable. And 1/4 the size of his brain. The Neurologist wasn't sure if Zeus would even wake from the anesthesia, but the tough little guy did & held on long enough to say our final goodbyes. At 11:30p last night Zeus, our perfect little angel, crossed the rainbow bridge. Taken too soon, he was only 2 yrs old.
Our souls are crushed. Our hearts are pulverized. While the world keeps spinning, we're supposed to pretend everything is ok... but it's not. We're not. Zeus took a piece of us with him. Our home, our hearts, our family, our everything will never be the same. RIP Zeus aka "Kiss-a-saurus" 💔😭
