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One week today since she died.
15 years ago
It's been one week since she died and I'm ready to talk about it now and tell what happened. Hopefully in the telling, it will be good for me.
About five years ago my family took in a scraggly stray in bad shape. We found out she was pregnant as well, but she'd been in such poor shape that she only had a single kitten. The kitten born here we named Naya.
She was truly a miracle to have made it. Over the course of the next year we had to get her moms teeth all removed because they were all bad. We wondered if maybe someone dumped her because her teeth were so awful. She was the sweetest cat.
We gave her one good year, then I guess her life had just been too hard we wish we knew what her story was. She became ill again and this time it was kidney failure there was nothing we could do and we lost her. Naya grew up here, as she was born here and was truly our housecat. A real people person we all loved her and she loved us.
Last thursday I remember my mom and I playing with Naya before going upstairs for 20 minutes, when I came back down Naya was sleeping on the couch. She looked so cute with her mouth open a little like that, she was always doing cute stuff like that. I asked my mom to pass down the family camera we take photos with and I took a picture of Naya sleeping cutely. But you know, something was already bothering me. I looked at the photo and something wasn't right, I was becoming scared. Took me a minute to gather myself enough to look at Naya. She wasn't moving, too still. 20 minutes ago she was fine. I came in close, one of her eyes was wide open the other was closed and she wasn't breathing. I felt....shock.
Naya was dead. Four and a half years old, healthy and full of love and life. Instantly, looked like a stroke, a lightning bolt. She was still so warm...
The worst part was going upstairs and having to tell her that her baby was dead. They had a very close and strong bond out of all of us. I won't go into detail about my mother cradling Naya in her arms, suffice to say we were both in shock and absolutely devastated.
It was heartbreaking, I couldn't understand how everything was fine up until she died instantly in her sleep. The horror of taking a photo of her thinking she was alive sunk in. It haunted me for awhile.
It's been a week now and everyone is slowly healing, but it's hard. Naya was a special girl who was almost never born so it's really sad that she died like that so young so fast.
We all miss her.
I'll never forget you Naya.
About five years ago my family took in a scraggly stray in bad shape. We found out she was pregnant as well, but she'd been in such poor shape that she only had a single kitten. The kitten born here we named Naya.
She was truly a miracle to have made it. Over the course of the next year we had to get her moms teeth all removed because they were all bad. We wondered if maybe someone dumped her because her teeth were so awful. She was the sweetest cat.
We gave her one good year, then I guess her life had just been too hard we wish we knew what her story was. She became ill again and this time it was kidney failure there was nothing we could do and we lost her. Naya grew up here, as she was born here and was truly our housecat. A real people person we all loved her and she loved us.
Last thursday I remember my mom and I playing with Naya before going upstairs for 20 minutes, when I came back down Naya was sleeping on the couch. She looked so cute with her mouth open a little like that, she was always doing cute stuff like that. I asked my mom to pass down the family camera we take photos with and I took a picture of Naya sleeping cutely. But you know, something was already bothering me. I looked at the photo and something wasn't right, I was becoming scared. Took me a minute to gather myself enough to look at Naya. She wasn't moving, too still. 20 minutes ago she was fine. I came in close, one of her eyes was wide open the other was closed and she wasn't breathing. I felt....shock.
Naya was dead. Four and a half years old, healthy and full of love and life. Instantly, looked like a stroke, a lightning bolt. She was still so warm...
The worst part was going upstairs and having to tell her that her baby was dead. They had a very close and strong bond out of all of us. I won't go into detail about my mother cradling Naya in her arms, suffice to say we were both in shock and absolutely devastated.
It was heartbreaking, I couldn't understand how everything was fine up until she died instantly in her sleep. The horror of taking a photo of her thinking she was alive sunk in. It haunted me for awhile.
It's been a week now and everyone is slowly healing, but it's hard. Naya was a special girl who was almost never born so it's really sad that she died like that so young so fast.
We all miss her.
I'll never forget you Naya.
Its allways hard to loose one as even if ts one young or one that has been with you for about 16 years.