Out in the World

Françoise’s dog Cotton died on Wednesday 8/27/08 after an amazingly short (36-hour) illness. On Monday she was limping but we put it down to her mild arthritis. However, on Tuesday morning, her shoulder was very swollen and she could hardly move around. The vet said some malignant cells were visible under the microscope. Cotton came home with painkillers, but she didn’t last the night. She was about 12. I was her assistant caretaker. When I worked at home, she often spent the day with me, and consumed ham snacks at lunchtime. We are receiving e-mail tributes written by other dogs, probably some of them have logons to wordpress and will comment here.