Rolo

Dear Diary;

So, today’s "friends only" entry before I got the phone call is back there <——- (if you’re not on my friends only list and you want to be, let me know)

Erin’s African Fat-Tailed Gecko, Rolo, died. We’re having a burial tomorrow at 10am. I feel HORRIBLE that this poor little guy died! I can’t hardly believe it. Everything was fine this morning, we took him to the vet for a check-up and he got weighed (he even put on 1 ounce!) and then the vet said that she wanted to look at the growing abscess on his eye. She said she wanted to remove it surgically because if we left it, at the rate it was growing, Rolo would die. So she said it was a simple procedure and told us to come back in an hour- so we did… she told us that things went fine and the abscess was removed and he was waking up and we could take him home. We got almost all the way home (an hour drive) and he wasn’t moving around at all, he was very limp- but he was still breathing fine. Then a few hours later Erin phones me and she’s crying so hard I can’t even understand what she’s saying. It’s all so crazy.

Poor, poor Rolo. He was my favourite of all her reptiles. 🙁

I painted her this, I hope she likes it.