Yesterday we had to say goodbye to our sweetheart, Satin. She had been with me for 14 and a half years. My constant companion; I called her my heartbeat. The emptiness is deadening. It is never the right time and the decision was agonising but sadly she was very ill and was not going to get better. I asked her to wait for me and told her “I love you. You have been such a good girl.” Her ashes will be placed in my coffin when it is time and we will be together again.