I just wanted to thank you guys.
To the Old Timers: LantoosLand was / is a magical place. The memories of all the kookiness came rushing back to me as well with the photos. The night I ground his Liv-a_Littles into dust to get him to eat after his dental and we were all up at 2am trying to clean the chicken dust out of his nostrils with nail clippers because he kept snorting it. The Gingerbird Man made from raw chicken to try to entice him away from his coco-puffs dry food. The Alieoons, the surfers, Punk and her making candycane legs, Bob Barker, President Sherman, the "WANTED" posters in search of this bear's nadir, baseball leg from sub-q's, balls of steel, Punk's skateboard, "Bear Witch Project" kitty after a dose of liquid metronidazole, his "helmoot" that he stoically had to wear after his dental, test strip X-mas ornaments, the nightly ni-ni ritual... Special thank you to Jojo and Bunny and Jill and Alex. I miss you all. Thank you all for your love and support.
To the Current LL Posters: Thank you so much for taking the time to leave messages here, it takes a special kind of person to take the time to do that. On Bear's last day, the vet told me that he knew it wouldn't be a consolation to me at that moment but that he wanted me to know that what "that protocol you're doing" did was to allow Bear to live out a long happy life of a "normal" cat and die of something completely unrelated to his FD. The vet was amazed that all of the slew of tests they took last week came back normal, especially for his age (probably older than 16). I credit FDMB for that. So my message to you is that FD can be a very frustrating disease to manage and try to regulate, but just know that the work you are doing here in LL is important. Be proud of yourselves - keep it up and know that what you are doing really is something that is meaningful and good, and makes a huge difference.
Thank (((you all))).