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Message: [QUOTE="FortheLoveofLizzie, post: 1976685, member: 77176"] Hello friends, I am saddened by Lizzie’s passing. Her story is well documented in this forum. I found her in the side of the road about 8 yrs ago in Illinois. She has been the most loving baby. She went to get nails clipped about two weeks ago. Did fine She started to eat less over last two weeks. I bathe her and she drinks water- she started to drink less. I thought she might have been going through brumation. We set up a vet appt. The worse part is I had aTrip planned and as I bathed her just before leaving I first noticed that she seemed to have lost a lot of weight around her previously chunky thighs. She drank a little. While I was gone my family called to tell me she had not moved since I put her back after bath. The next day at the vet appt he said she had a mass in her abdomen and he suspected a tumor. After seeking a reptile vet for hours I told my family to take her back to be euthanized. She was barely breathing and her beard was the darkest beard she has EVER had. She was distressed. I am devastated that I wasn’t there to hold her one last time I m devastated to think that I missed some obvious signs and that had I acted sooner she could have survived. But I am devastated that “survived what”? A tumor operation at her age (and I don’t actually know her age) in her condition? I am devastated all around. I feel guilty that I left. I feel guilty that my niece and elderly mom had to suffer her last days without me I am devastated that I left her and that maybe I didn’t give her the best life even though every one around me says I did. I am devastated And I miss her I dread going home (still on the road) to see her habitat cold and empty I am just devastes and I can’t sleep- hence this post. I am trying to remember how we met The randomness How much she taught me about love About reptiles How she expanded my ability to live and how she made me a better person. Lizzie I will always love you. I believe we will meet again. Please forgive me for not being there for your last breaths. Anyway. Thank you for this forum. I learned so much from all of you. Thank you. [/QUOTE]

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