One of the Joys on my new (just lost) job
has been that I could listen to
Whole Wheat Radio again
One of things that is there is a "Daily Topic"
The topic the other day was...
If you knew you only one day left in your life
what would you do?
I couldn't answer at work because by the time I finish
My face will be covered with tears...
But here is the answer....
We have had two Labrador Retrievers.
Poppy and Java.
They are both gone now,
Poppy (the first) was discovered to had a tumor
at the base of his brain.
It was pressing on his spinal cord
We started drug treatments.
But is short order he was loosing his sight,
his balance, and the drugs made him constantly thisty.
We knew we had to put him down,..
We took him to a local park.
A really large open space,..
It didn't matter if he could see,
It didn't matter if he listed to one side or the other.
For the afternoon, he was as happy as he had ever been.
What a gift for us all.
Java got a bath one saturday.
I put him in his crate do dry off.
When I open the crate door,..
He barely hobbled out.
The vet said he had some large growth
that had ruptured and he was bleeding internally.
We took him home cause the vet said he wasn't going to suffer
and my daughter wasn't with us to say good by.
No day at the park for Java.
so,.. even if somehow I only have a couple hours.
Please,.. let me have a day in the park.