Re: Checking in for December 2014
Hi everyone! Wanted to check in and wish you and yours a happy holiday season. It's been 8 months since I said goodbye to Pansy and I still have hard days sometimes. Shadow, the deaf white boxer with separation anxiety that I brought home from the pound, has been successfully rehomed with a big boxer brother and they're totally in love. As I'd hoped, having another dog around is the key to her happiness and she's fine being left behind with her buddy Duke. She is safe, loved and happy and her new family is generous about sharing pictures with me online so I get to see what she's up to.
The timing of Shadow's adoption could not have been better, as a few days later I had a major plumbing problem in the house (burst supply line) and I'm living in a hotel until the damage is all repaired. The week before Thanksgiving was pretty exciting with mold remediation equipment running all over the house and a parade of contractors tromping through. We're still working out schedules but I hope to be able to move home again by Christmas. This has all been a challenge, but it would have been so much harder with a 56 lb puppy to wrangle in the middle of it all.
I'd say I wish your holidays were less complicated than mine, but who am I kidding, most of you are dealing with Cushing's dogs, right? :^) Instead, I'll wish for all of you that, like Shadow, you are right where you belong this holiday season.
This has been a challenging year and your wisdom and support meant to much to me when Pansy and I were going through the worst. Thank you!
“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
Pansy Lou Who, the Velveteen Boxer. Always loved, never forgotten. RIP 2014
