We had to put my cat down yesterday. A couple months ago we found out she had a cancerous tumor in her gum that was making it painful for her to eat. The vet gave us some medicine that would help with the pain for a while, telling us that she had a few months.

It finally got to the point where the medicine wasn't helping anymore. She wasn't eating much anymore and was pretty much starving to death, so...

Now she's gone. I had since elementary school and now she's just gone. I keep having these little moments like wanting to reach around to the back of my chair to pet her, then in the next moment I remember she's not there.

It hurts so much.