RIP Sky Blue

Posted by SuperADDMom on July 5, 2009

When I left off the last post about Sky and his fighting to live, he was seemingly doing better.

He had progressed from crop feeding to eye dropper, rested for a few hours deeply, and then began to eat on his own. he went back and forth between eating and sleeping, and when he progressed to eating very well, and drinking on his own, we thought perhaps the worst was over, and he had overcome whatever was making him sick.

The kids finally went to bed at about midnight, giving Sky a  nuzzle and a kiss, and Hubby and I watched over him for a long time. Then in the early morning hours, he started to have a seizure. After 15 minutes into a nonstop seizure I went up and woke up our girl, to bring her downstairs with us, in case Sky was not going to make it. We didn’t want her to wake up in the morning and have him have had died through the night. We wanted her to be there to say goodbye.

She came down, and we told her how he was doing, and that we were afriad he had been having seizures all along, and that were getting worse, and perhaps this was why he was being picked on by the other birds.

It was a very sad time for us, as she held him, and cried, and talked to him, rubbing his little head, telling him how much she loved him. We laid him on a baby blanket and sat on the bed with him. After 45 minutes of a total body seizure, he started to slow down his breathing and the seizure started to subside. Then he laid down, took one last breath and died.

Tears flowed, as they still are now, but we are working the greiving process, and saying our goodbyes.

I wanted to take a moment to thank all the people on Twitter from all over the world who have written @ messages and DM’s to me and my husband for our daughter at this delicate time in her life. Your kindness and understanding mean a lot to us, and to her. Who would have thought that a little $15 budgie named Sky Blue could touch so many people all over the world and through tweeting, none the less.

Click here to read the story of how our daughter came to own Sky, and the fight for the last 48 hours to save his life

here are some pictures of our little friend we’ve take in the short 4 months ( almost to the day) he was in our lives.