• Aging Parents,  Dogs

    Mom’s Dog Fancy, Has Passed

    Fancy Girl Passed Away at 17. Yesterday was a sad day. Momma lost her little Fancy girl. She passed Monday night around 9:30 p.m. after a rough day of coughing and uneven breathing. Mom called me Monday afternoon and asked me to make a vet appt for Tuesday to put her down if needed so she would not continue to suffer. The earliest appointment was Wednesday. But Fancy passed on her own, which is a blessing and what Mom had wanted. She suffered little, but just had a bad day or so. Mom called George Tuesday morning after we’d left for work to tell him Fancy passed and asked if…

  • Friends

    Tribute to My friend Sheila | Fun Childhood and Teen Memories | Friend Gone too Soon

    So Mom called me a couple of days ago to let me know that my friend Sheila had passed. And that she was found in the floor and reason unknown with an autopsy being done. I was quite shocked by the news as she was always such a picture of perfect health. She and I were close as kids – and mainly I remember us hanging out the most when we were in 8th grade through our freshman year in college. While the details are faded from childhood, I suspect that our teen years was when we both became active in the youth groups and got to know each other…

  • Dogs,  Family

    Losing another Family Dog | A Tribute to Findlay

    I’m sorry to say that Ms. Findlay (my grand dog) did not make it. She had a blockage in her intestines. They did surgery. Her bloodwork wasn’t good so they did a plasma transfusion (?) and that did not work and they went back in for a 2nd look and found 8 inches of infection in and around her intestines and put her down because her survival rate was next to nothing. Bottom line, she just couldn’t heal properly from this. Everyone is a bit devastated. They didn’t get to have proper good byes or be with her like you usually do. No one knew it was going to be…