Thanks bud. Things have been pretty rough. My Doberman (12 y/o) end up with bone cancer and we spent the better half of 6 months fighting it, and then eventually had to make the call for her, since she wasn’t ready to give up regardless of how bad she was hurting. I spend more time with and am closer to my dog than 95% of parents are with their kids. I would say in the last seven years I spent anywhere between 18-24hrs with her each day. With most parents working and/or their kids playing sports or doing whatever kids do these days, theirs no way they would spend that much time together, it wouldn’t be healthy for either of them. It’s been like a flying front kick square to the chest.
Then add fuel to the fire with my uncles dementia spirally way out of control. His daughter and some friends stepped in because they thought he was “fine” and his issues can be “cured”. I don’t remember ever reading about a cure for dementia (FTD or otherwise) in Med school. They all have since bailed but only after ransacking his house and taking what they wanted. Of course he thinks my wife and I took everything. One of the stories he told was that we snuck over in the middle of the night, woke him up, drugged him, and then stole what we wanted after rearranging a different room in the house each night.
On a positive note….? The state is stepping in to get him placement before he hurts himself, and we are picking up a new dobe pup around the end of the month. I’m hoping that having another shadow around will pull my @$$ out of the funk I’ve been in for the last few months.
So…yeah. Yes and no, everything is okay. Or at least “I’m fine” has been the lie that I’d been telling myself. I havent even driven or worked on my truck since last June. Other than her appts, I didn’t have any reason to leave home so I spent as much time as I could with her knowing full well I wouldn’t ever get to make that time up once she was gone.
This posting is obviously not the proper place for this public service announcement, but I figure by the time those few on here who know me have read it I will delete it. Plus by then I won’t have to explain things ten different times. If I had ever gotten around to my build page I would have put it there, but either way I would have done the same thing there. So if you’re still reading this, then congratulations… youve made it to the end.
