For Sylvia
I lost my little girl on Monday. Stewart and I are heartbroken. We had to let her go, though we didn’t want to. She was suffering. To try to keep her with us, would have been selfishness on our part at her expense. My baby developed a tumor under her tongue. Not unusual for a cat her age, she was almost 16. Our vet was pretty sure it was squamous cell carcinoma. Sylvia wasn’t a good candidate for biopsy. She had thyroid disease and a heart murmur. The vet felt she would survi