Oh, Diane, I’m so sorry! I think you made the right decision, but it’s always hard, and fraught with “what if’s.” How shocking that it came on so suddenly. And the cost, yikes, we’ve been there, with birds with cancer especially. But we just do what we can and worry about the cost later. They’re our babies.

We share your worries about having an only bird now, since our Mae died in August, leaving Cookie as an only bird. We are unsure if we should get him a friend again or not. We are seniors, too.