My doggie is dying. She appears to have a brain tumor or maybe she had a stroke, we're not sure which. The vet tells us she won't last long. On Thursday she was ok, and in the night something bad happened. By Friday morning she couldn't walk anymore. She can't stand up on her own, can't pee very well, and can't poop at all. She hasn't been in pain, but the longer she goes without pooping, the more pain she's in. I think tonight will be her last night. I won't see her suffer like this anymore. I'll spend another night on the living room floor with her tonight. Tomorrow will be her last.
Tori won't leave her side. She just keeps sobbing. We haven't even told her we're putting the dog to sleep in the morning. We've done all we can to help ease the kids' pain, and prepare them for the loss. How can you do that, though?
No music today. I just can't feel it.
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
- Washington Irving
- Washington Irving
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Larry King: What, though, Gordon, do you say to parishioners who say what do I do with my anger?
Gordon B.
The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller
Ask not for victory, ask for courage. For if you can endure you bring honor to us all, even more you bring honor to yourself.
- -- From the Decathlete
- -- From the Decathlete
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
- -- Helen Keller
- -- Helen Keller
Anger is a prelude to courage.
- Eric Hoffer
- Eric Hoffer
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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