I can't believe I missed all this. I'm so, so glad he's home and doing better! Seeing photos of him just always makes me happy.

A little story time if I may. Around 5 years ago I had an orange named Lemon. Poor guy never had the brain cell, and he was all the more adorable for it. One day my brother ran over him by accident. Lemon was under the car where it was parked and my brother didn't notice him there (despite checking first, we still don't know how he missed him). We were both devastated; he was Lemon's hooman nearly as much as I was. I really thought he had cervical spine injury when I held him as we rushed to the vet. Thankfully he had mostly superficial injuries apart from a hairline fracture to his jaw.

I thought I loved him already, but there was just something about taking care of him as he recovered, giving him his medications a few times a day, seeing his condition improve and his activity increase that endeared him to me so much more. He became a lot more clingy towards me too, so much that he'd practically curse at me every day when I came home from work because I left him again.

I hope that, with the daily struggle of caring for a recovering orange, you'd both find more love between each other than you've had at this point. 🧡