Say What?

Thursday Evening We had to put our precious boy Charlie down today. What follows is mostly for me as a way of memorializing him and how much he meant to us.   Our home feels so empty tonight. There's no little Charlie to greet us as we come home and we dearly miss that. His absence is deafening. Everywhere I look I reflexively expect to see him in his usual places but he's gone. His health began to worry us a couple of weeks ago when he lost his appetite, something he'd never had an issue with before. He loved his food and his treats. We took him to the vet on Wednesday morning to see if there was something that could be addressed to help him be his normal self again. The doctor did her exam, focusing mostly on his bloated stomach, something that had very recently become noticeable. She said she needed a sample of the fluid in his belly to know how best to proceed. We waited while she took him back to the lab.  She returned to the room ten minutes later and I could tell by