said goodbye to my best friend 🌈 "Gertrude the Great" (the name my mother just bestowed on her is beyond fitting)

She was diagnosed with lyme nephritis. The vet @catskillanimalhospital assured us that he had never seen a case go beyond 7 to 10 days after diagnosis... until Gert

She survived a little over a month because of everything we were able to do for her. We knew it was a matter of time. But between the chiropractic adjustments, acupuncture, Chinese herbs from @altvet and the homeopathic medicine and antibiotics we were able to spend the past month giving her all the love and normalcy we/she needed.

She stopped eating and started bleeding in her GI tract so we knew the decision had been made for us. The last look she gave made it clear that she was ready.

The purity of love that exists between animals and their humans is something I never want to be without. I've been preparing for the emptiness but coming home without her was so difficult.

I don't have much to say, just want to sit with it all for a while until she comes home to the farm to be buried with all our other animals.

I felt the urgency to pay tribute to my girl and to just look through the hundreds! of pictures I have just to remind myself how full of a life we had with her.

Truly truly Gertrude the Great. My best good friend forever