Hey y'all! A fellow suggie mum here. Between full time nursing school and two jobs with a husband and teenage twin sons, I have 3 wonderful suggies! Two females and one male (male is fixed!). Seiya, Mika, and Riku; all half siblings as they're the best bears I could have asked for since they all are full of love and fun! <3

Last year after Seiyaboo's third birthday, my first ever suggie and mama's girl, Seiya, had to see a vet due to having issues using the bathroom. Vet concluded for her being three years old, she was in stage 3 bone disease and there was no saving her as her disease caused her hips and spine to collapse on her urinary/digestive system. I had the choice of her being on medicine for the remaining of her life or put her to sleep. I chose one of the most difficult decisions of putting her down. That day was sad but special cause she knew it was her time and loved on me like it was her last time and felt like she was thanking me for giving her such a great life in the last three years. I stayed with her till the very end of her heartbeat giving its last beat.

The grief of like losing one of my own children time past, I still miss my baby and always will but I have her half brother and half sister to care for now in the family! The half sister, Mika, took it the hardest of losing Seiya since those two were so close. Time flown of just the two, Mika and Riku. The dynamic tiny duo! <3

Six months past after Seiya's death, Riku had to be seen by the vet for a similar issue of like what Seiya had happen. I was thinking UTI or a kidney stone! Wrong. Vet concluded of him being two years old, he was in stage 3 of the same bone disease as Seiya with his spine collapsing on his urinary/digestive system. What made it so heartbreaking was that while he couldn't use the bathroom, x-rays showed that his back legs were popped out of his hip joints for a short period of time. How could I have known he was in that much pain? We don't my vet says. Sugar gliders are good at hiding pain like other animals. I had the choice of like Seiya and had to make the decision of having to put him to sleep. I didn't get the chance to stay with him like with Seiya cause of due to the increase of Covid-19 in our area. But he knew it was his last too before he left the car to go into the tiny vet office I believe. Because he was restless in the pouch and preferred to ride all the way to the vet's office on my shoulder in my long hair and loving on my neck like a rubbing cat.

Present day, Mika is all I have left and I don't know how much time left I have with her but she's been getting so much attention from me, the hubs and the kids like the previous two bears before her to help with her grief since she is the one bear show now. I scroll from time to time seeing every owner on here happy with their bears and I am so pleased to see fellow suggie parents being proud of their suggie loves! <3 Take it from me, a proud suggie parent; love on them, spend as much time as you can with them and never ever abandon them! They say sugar gliders can live up to 10 years. In my case sadly, it was not but it may be for you. Keep spreading the suggie love onto your wee ones as #suggielife is the best life I and we could have ever partake in :)