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Oscar's Friday Candle .... today for everyone

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Post icon  Posted 06 June 2008 - 04:06 PM

Every Friday afternoon for the last 14 I have lit a candle for Fluffybum Oscar to let him know that Winnie and I miss him terribly and so he can look down from Rainbow Bridge and see where we are and that he is not forgotten still always in our hearts.

In that short time there have been such touching threads in memory of our beloved furballs. So now as I am about to light number 15 it is not just for my darling but for all of you who have loved and lost and your darlings. Tonight is for them. May they all be happily playing at Rainbow Bridge.

And to those of you who have helped me get through this horrible, horrible time in words of comfort and others by entrusting your treasured furball, thankyou.


..... Don't cry because its over, Smile because it happened .....

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Posted 06 June 2008 - 04:07 PM

massive hugs, that bought tears to my eyes and made me remember my beautiful trio who I lost last year. Thank you for that.

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Posted 06 June 2008 - 04:11 PM

Thank you, I will smile through the tears.

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Posted 06 June 2008 - 04:17 PM

That is beautiful- i too read it with tears in my eyes, RIP to all our fur babies at rainbow bridge

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Posted 06 June 2008 - 04:24 PM

Thank you very much.

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Posted 06 June 2008 - 05:41 PM

So very, very touching ... I read this thread during my lunchbreak at work and promptly started to cry, so couldn't respond .... so, I am replying now .... such a lovely gesture ... and lovely that you have thought of everyone else too ... console.gif

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Posted 06 June 2008 - 06:02 PM

Yes guys its hard for all of us and I know through our posts who has loved and lost for one day it will touch us all.

Tonight is about those wonderful memories .... my candle is burning brightly and Winnie And Skinny (sorry its special n what he answers too ...) are asleep on the bed and Sapphy is asleep on her wobbly scratch pole and I feel great.

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Posted 06 June 2008 - 08:35 PM

Thankyou.

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Posted 06 June 2008 - 09:23 PM

Do you remember the day he went or did you just choose Friday? Made me realise that I know Charley went on a Tuesday - it's something you just know and can't forget. Daughter was very upset the other night, with Lucy on her bed because it made her remember how Charley would lie on her bed although usually staring her in the face with his soppy big eyes. So we shared all my memories - the good ones - of all the pets I've loved and lost over the years. They could all still make me smile...

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Posted 06 June 2008 - 09:50 PM

That was very special, thank you.

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Posted 07 June 2008 - 10:00 AM

Thanks!

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Posted 07 June 2008 - 04:12 PM

QUOTE(charleycat @ Jun 6 2008, 09:23 PM) View Post
Do you remember the day he went or did you just choose Friday? Made me realise that I know Charley went on a Tuesday - it's something you just know and can't forget.


Yep 9:50am on the Friday and I remember everything even getting up at 7am and going to Coles to buy his favourite Purina biccies just to see if he would eat them but still no thats when I knew that was the day.

Like your daughter I would get upset as Oscar always slept on my right and Winnie on the left and now the spot was bare. Winnie moved across to Oscars side and stayed there until Skinny came to live with us. Now Skin is up on the bed Winnie has moved back to his side and Skinny sleeps where Oscar slept. They just know.

Ive found lighting the candle very soothing. I always have candles but the Friday night one is special. When I put his name in the Monday Night Candle Ceremony for Rainbow Bridge I had 17 candles burning in the room. One for each year of his life and it was beautiful and peaceful.


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Posted 07 June 2008 - 04:31 PM

We lit candles the night Charley went - and when I counted them I found we had lit eleven, which was how old Charley was.... Pure coincidence.

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Posted 07 June 2008 - 04:53 PM

Sushi and Mitsi went to the vet with DH and DD for her annual checkup on Thursday evening, they returned with only Mitsi. By mid-morning Friday the vet informed me that Sushi was full of cancer, as a family we went at 5pm that afternoon to spend an hour with her, and then to say goodbye. I will never forget that Friday.

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Posted 07 June 2008 - 08:47 PM

That is a lovely thing to do- will never forget coming home on a Friday last October and not seeing Bibby sitting there waiting to greet me as she had for years- found her in her favourite bed- like she had gone to sleep and never woke up. She was cold and stiff- horrible memory.
Never did anything like light candles- which sounds so lovely as the next few months for me were focused on getting through the days and keeping another sick cat well.
Losing a cat hurts so much- even now 7 months later
Try to remember the good times- it does get better but it takes time
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