Besides a select few friends and family, I haven't told many people Nayelli passed away on Wednesday (August 11th). She had been suffering from chylothorax, a condition where lymphatic fluid builds up in the lung cavity, and nothing was working. After draining her lung cavity twice, and the pills doing nothing, the vet had lost hope and was not optimistic that surgery would help or that she would even live it. We could also drain again, but there are risks involved and we suspected that one risk, that fluid pockets will form and build up, was already occuring. I didn't want to give up on her, but I didn't want her to be uncomfortable, and her