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Say hi to SAM

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Hey All,

First off, Thank you all for your kind words.................. I miss my sweet pea soooo much. IDK what to do with myself I have been by her side 100% for over 2 years. There's this wide open gap in my heart that I will never be able to fill, I would never want to.

When we thought Sophia was cured, the make a wish foundation presented Sophia with an amazing 150 Gal setup, the plan was to place a fahaka puffer into it for Sophia, but when I was looking
under my new home, I realized the foundation had a HUGE hole, So we went about getting quotes for it to be fixed, And while we were waiting for the men to start working, I went about ordering a fahaka for Sophia.

Well the men never showed, and would not return our calls, that is about the time Sophia started to show signs of the cancer returning. (And it had) They said there was nothing they could do, and that she would most likely not see her b-day on the 12th of july, well as usally Sophia proved them wrong, she waited till the 13th. She pased away with me holding her hand at 9:30pm.

To say that was the most painful thing I have ever had to endure is a understatment.

I still cry offen, at least once an hour, seeing as it has been only 2 days. I was told writing her story down would help me to move on................ Well mybe i don't want to?????

Well i did at one point decided to sell the setup...................But something in me is telling me not too. So for now I will keep it, I plan on getting a sightly bigger tank for sam as he grows, We are planning on either getting the foundation fixed or moving to somewhere with a basement. Either way. We are keeping the setup and sam.

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She loved sam so much, anytime she was able she would walk over to his tank and point and giggle at him, HE would come right up to her finger. Near the end, she couldn't even walk anymore.

As you can see by the pic of her when the tank arrived, She loved it, the smile on her face is proof.

IDK why i posted all this, I guess i needed to vent it out, I hope you all don't mind??

I miss her so much.

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I think it's a really good idea to keep him. It will always remind you of her smile. Do you want me to delete your FS thread?
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After such a devastating loss ! No one will blame you ! If it lightens some of your pain ! Then by all means post ! Hopefully Sam will help you get thru this extremely tuff time !
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Pufferpunk wrote:I think it's a really good idea to keep him. It will always remind you of her smile. Do you want me to delete your FS thread?

Yes please PP, that would be cool of you, and Me and my wife pat believe keeping him is a good idea as well, She loved him so much.

I miss her smile and the clapping of her tiny hands
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I think you need to set it up and keep him as a memorial for her. And we need pics like crazy of this set up
RTR wrote:Fahakas do not have tank mates, they may have swimming food reserves.
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xrayjeeper83 wrote:I think you need to set it up and keep him as a memorial for her. And we need pics like crazy of this set up

IDK when we can set this one up, I will try and find a little bigger tank then he has now money's pretty tight, I have a huge filter on his current tank and its a 18 inch square tank, so he has some room, but he is getting pretty big, so something needs to happen soon.

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What do you need to get that tank up and running. I think a 150 would be big enough for life for a fahaka
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xrayjeeper83 wrote:What do you need to get that tank up and running. I think a 150 would be big enough for life for a fahaka
The house we bought has a bad foundation it needs to be fix first.
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oh

How about a paypal account and maybe you can get some donations in your daughters memory to fix it
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xrayjeeper83 wrote:oh

How about a paypal account and maybe you can get some donations in your daughters memory to fix it
Thats a kind thought, but when it comes to donations of any kind I am a be shy, During the first year of sophia's treatments I let another forum do donations, Which was awesome of them.
But it back fired on us, as we used the donations for gas, meds and food well me and sophia were in Toronto, When Sophia got out of treatment we decided to buy a house and a truck as our
van lease was up.

Well some of the PPl on the other forum accussed us of using donation money for the house and truck which we did not.

Sorry i would feel a bit weird accepting donations now. I am not opposed to it, I am just "Once bitten, Twice shy"

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I don't know if I can speak for every one on this forum, but since this would be donations in your daughters memory, I think that the use of the donations would be at your discretion. I highly doubt any of the people here would accuse you of misuse of those funds. We would love for you to live as best of a life you possibly can after such a painful loss.
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energizerfish wrote:I don't know if I can speak for every one on this forum, but since this would be donations in your daughters memory, I think that the use of the donations would be at your discretion. I highly doubt any of the people here would accuse you of misuse of those funds. We would love for you to live as best of a life you possibly can after such a painful loss.
Well if you guys want to help out, I guess that would be okay. We were gonna sell this house and move but I can't, There's just to much of her here, I don't want to lose her.

Edited by LilGreenPuffer. Please PM Mr. H. for this information if you wish to discuss donation.

Thank you all, so much I promise you whatever is given will go to Sophia only!

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DONE........

Also for anyone else donating if you send it as a gift he wont have the fee's when taking the money out
RTR wrote:Fahakas do not have tank mates, they may have swimming food reserves.
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xrayjeeper83 wrote:DONE........

Also for anyone else donating if you send it as a gift he wont have the fee's when taking the money out

Thank you. I cried when I got the email from paypal, I have to be honest, I am having a really hard time dealing with my sweet peas passing, some moments I don't think I am gonna make it.

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