I don't care for birds. They're noisy, they don't do anything, they crap all over the place. However, hummingbirds are very special to me. I'm sorry that your little one did not make it. It is very very hard to take care of an ailing hummingbird. As much as I hate saying this, we find at least 10 dead hummingbirds a year where I work. They just fly so fast and don't realize that the glass is there. I'm just lucky they sent us into the windowless pit of cubicles so that I don't have to be by a window. But last year, I found one as I was walking in, and it was still alive! I ran upstairs, got some sugar water, and got back within 2 minutes only to find that the little feller had passed.
dg, I'm very sure that the little biddy appreciated you very much, and I'm sure you made its short life much more tolerable/enjoyable than it could have been. Just yesterday, some dill-hole redneck hillbilly in a pickup truck tried to run over my dog. While she was on her leash. Walking on the sidewalk. I threw the closest object I had (a bag full of hot, steamy "dog treats"), but alas missed the imbecile's truck.