🌱🙀 "Stay with me a little longer" ❤️

Before I knew it.
My house,
was full of animals.

Medaka, goldfish, parakeets. 🦈🐠🐦️
And the one who used the top of those tanks
like a footstool to climb up was Princess.

"Princess, are you climbing up there!?"
Before I could even say that,
she was already on top of the tank lid.

Aiming for the top,
hop, hop, hop. 🐾
Rather than a cat,
she was a little mountaineer. 🌋

Back in those days.

And now.
The energetic one is
Turtle-P. 🐢
About 28 years old.
In human terms,
I hear that's 86.

Princess is 19. 🐈‍⬛
In human terms,
that's 92.

…Wait.

Then my family
is an elderly family.

Princess, a super-elderly senior. 🐈‍⬛
Turtle-P, elderly. 🐢

Princess is probably saying this.
"Mom,"
"Is this house"
"a nursing home?"

No, no.
Mom is 💇
still young.
…
or so I think.
Back in the day, anyway. 😃

Princess,
you used to cover yourself with a blanket on the chair
and sleep soundly. 💤
And when you woke up,
from under the blanket,
pop. 🏭️

Like a submarine,
you'd poke your head out.

That
really made me laugh 😃😄

Now, though.
You don't run anymore.
You don't stretch either.
You even stopped
scratching your neck.
Because you stumbled and
fell once. 😂

Even though you're a cat,
you've learned
to hold back.
That
is a bit sad. 😅😭

Just moving
from chair to chair,
you're wheezing.

Even when you shake your head,
you're wheezing.

It's tough, isn't it? 😂
It's hard, isn't it? 😂
Princess. 😭😭

At the hospital,
"How about an MRI?"
they asked.

But,

Mommy is thinking.

Scary experiences 😿
Painful experiences 🙀
Lonely experiences 😻
Is it really okay
to prolong your life
by putting you through all that?
??????????

I'm sorry, my princess. 😂

Mommy's decision
might be wrong. _(_^_)_

I don't want to
make you suffer any more
when you're already weak, my princess. 😂😭💕

So,
I won't do anything drastic.
I'll just
go to the hospital every week,
come back,
and live together again.

That's all. ✨😅😂😭❤️

Please forgive me, my princess. 💓🌱💕🌱💕

I'm so sorry. 😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣

My princess.
If you're thinking it,
I want you to say this.

"Mommy,"
"well,
it was a good life. 😿"

No,
not yet.
Not yet, my princess.
Just a little longer.
Let's stay together a little longer. 💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

Just looking at your sleeping face,
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Mommy just keeps crying.

🐈‍⬛😻 "Pull yourself together 🐾 (●｀ε´●)"

🐈‍⬛ "Because there are
kids who are suffering much, much more than me 😭
and people who are suffering much, much more 😭
than I am. 💕"

💇
Yes, I'm sorry, my princess (_ _;)

Thanks to everyone, the princess is doing her best.
Thank you very much m(__)m