Re: Molly, 13 yr, shih tzu - lhasa aspo - Molly has passed
When they brought Lena to me that morning, they had washed her and put lotion on her. It didn't smell like her at all and I needed to breath in her scent.
The quilt I had wrapped around her when we rushed to the hospital, I told them to keep it in the oxygen tank with her. Before I left that night, I went in to kiss her and tell her I would see her in the morning and the quilt wasn't there. My mother had made that for me for my 45th birthday. They said she had peed on it and they had it in the laundry bin. I made them take it out and give it to me.
I didn't wash it for days.
The weird thing is that for weeks after she died, I smelled the lotion smell in different places...at work, walking past some stores, in the street. It could be because when they handed her to me I just buried my face in her little body and held her for hours until the vet opened and I brought her to be cremated...
I made my husband cut some of the hair off of her ears, the ears I loved to feel and kiss, and I carry those cuttings in a baggie in my pocketbook and take them out and look at them. Sometimes I open it up and feel them...my kids would say that's gross, but I couldn't care less.
Joan, mom to my Angel Lena, Angel Gable, Angel Phoenix, Angel Doree, Cooper, Sibble, and now Raina.