内容摘要：“I feel like there was some type of help out there for me,” she said. “I just didn’t know where to look.”

“I feel like there was some type of help out there for me,” she said. “I just didn’t know where to look.”

“It’s really normal,” she says. But “it feels wrong to say, doesn’t it? And people don’t want to share that.”Possibly. But it’s not a magic bullet. Each animal has its own personality and a new one won’t necessarily fill the void left by another. And if your previous pet was full-grown, you may no longer have the patience for kittens’ litters or puppy-training again.

Maxwell, a young male, was one of two kittens that his owners adopted after their cat Jimmy was run over and killed last year. (AP Photo/John Leicester)Maxwell, a young male, was one of two kittens that his owners adopted after their cat Jimmy was run over and killed last year. (AP Photo/John Leicester)Bottom line: Grieving can’t be truncated. The sadness and memories can be lasting.

Bartels lost her dog, Seymour, last June.“I’m sure I’ll have a hard time again in June when it’s the year anniversary of when we put him down,” she says.

De Carteret keeps her dog’s ashes by her fireplace, which was his favorite place to sit.

“Some people will think that’s weird,” she says. “But, you know, that’s how I deal with it ... You have to find the right way for you.”, as of July 1. Zepbound will be excluded.

It’s important to have a range of drugs to treat a disease as widespread as obesity in the U.S., said Dr. Angela Fitch, chief medical officer of knownwell, an obesity care company. Wegovy has been found to cut the risk of serious heart problems by 20%, she noted. A drug may work well for one patient, but not for others.“We’re going to need to use them all just because we have so many patients who need treatment,” she added.

AP Health Writer Tom Murphy in Indianapolis contributed to this report.The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.