What a roller coaster life.
My darling Reanna had decided she needs a new puppy. She has been HOUNDING me for weeks. At first I thought her BARK WAS WORSE THEN HER BITE but the need seemed to be growing. She was GROWLEY and began to show signs of RABIES. I was in the DOG HOUSE. Randy finally got her convinced that the two dogs we had were more then enough and since Rosie has had a cough for about a month, Reanna decided to treat her like a PUPPY. She brought Rosie in the house and bathed her and pampered her. She had Rosie sleeping in her bed and was really given her the royal canine treatment. Last month when we took Rosie to the vet, the vet thought she had kennel cough even though she had been vaccinated. Over the past week we saw that she was really beginning to struggle with breathing. We took her back to the vet on Friday and he did an x-ray of her lungs. Our poor little Rosie dog had very advanced lung cancer. The vet gave her days, not even weeks because of how quick it was advancing. Just one month ago he couldn’t detect it in her yearly exam and exactly 3 weeks and 6 days later, it had filled one lung completely, and 70% of the other lung. It had even completely taken over her bronchial tubes.
Sometimes, God has our children throw fits to remind us to take care of what we have. If Reanna hadn’t wanted a puppy so badly, we might not have brought Rosie in the house in her last few days of life and treated her like royalty. She might not have been pampered and cared for while she was in pain.
Our God, is a powerful God. Our God is a loving God.
I have had a bad month with death. April 15 I lost my grandmother, two weekends ago a dear friend lost her 23 year old son in an accident and Saturday, I lost my dog. I’m really not afraid of dying and I’m not sad for the ones that pass before me. I’m only sad for myself for not loving everyone and everything as much as I should.
The new puppy… (You didn’t think Reanna was going to let us get out of getting a new puppy did you?) is a yellow lab. Her mom is chocolate and her dad is yellow. She is yellow with a light brown nose. Hopefully that means the chocolate gene is fairly strong in her and if we ever decide to breed her, she could possibly throw chocolates. Reanna has named her Abigail von Happy Tail Duckworth. We are just going to call her Ducky. We’ll see what God has planned for us on this new adventure.
