I am lucky enough to have the friendship of three wonderful women who I adore. We are all busy "working girls" who have little free time to socialize let alone share our thoughts and dreams. I hope this blog will allow us to share our daily lives and give us a place to express our creative juices. Each day I think of ideas that could possibly allow us to work together towards our goal of making the world a little nicer for people and for our wonderful animal friends. Some of them are pretty silly ideas, but some of them really seem possible to me. I get so excited I want to pick up the phone and call everyone to talk about it! Maybe this can be our forum!
It's late on Saturday and I'm tired but it was time to put this blog in motion! I look forward to sharing our dreams!
Judith - you ROCK ! This is awesome. Thank you for taking the time to set this up so we can chat with each other and share. It is so hard to call when there is a three hour difference in time.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts the last few days have been with Kathy and the loss she is going through. When you see her give a big hug from me.
Love you
So, I didn't think I'd need this forum so soon but I do. Our boy, Scout, died on Sunday night. He started having seizures late on Saturday night. Usually a dose of Valium was enough to break the cycle and get him back to normal. These seizures were different and far more violent. What an awful thing to witness. We kept him comfortable all night until we could get to the vet in the morning (thank you Blue Mountain). They pumped him full of Phenobarbital but when they put the catheter in his leg he started seizing again. They gave him a big does of Valium and that knocked him out. We took him home and he was quiet for a few hours and then the seizures started again. They had sent us home with Valium to give him thru the catheter, which I did. It would help for a bit and then he'd start again. I gave him the last of the meds late in the afternoon and he was quiet again for a while. Then they just started coming one after another. David kept hoping he could bring him out of it and he did several times but by 10:00 we knew he was suffering and we needed to do something. We called the emergency vet and she met us at the clinic at 11:00 last night and euthanized him. It was so difficult to see him suffering and such a tremendous relief to see his pain go away. I wish you all were here so we could do a group hug and drink a toast to Scoutie Boy. David and I opened a nice bottle of wine tonight to help us deal with the empty space on the couch. We're going thru going thru old photos tonight laughing and crying. We've lost so many of our Manchesters. There used to be 8 and now there is one. It's left a very big hole in my heart. Love you, ladies. Thanks for being there. xoxoxoxox
ReplyDeleteI am blog disabled - I type - post and sometimes it shows up and sometimes it does not
ReplyDeleteof course this one will show up....
Also still thinking about the "Trifecta" sports bar - Where there is Great Beer-Great food-Great sports. Big beer menu, small but great food menu, lots of big screen tv's with different sports playing!
ReplyDeleteThey're all showing up!! I know we'll figure this out!
ReplyDeleteThis will sound kinky...but it wasn't:)
ReplyDeleteI was taking a shower and thinking about the Fab Four- picture this
a book titled Four Fab Women and how they found friendship
4 women from different backgrounds, different parts of the country, find friendship in a small NW commmunity
I always seem to be more creative in the shower! What a great idea! Plus you could write the book from 4 different perspectives, although that could be dangerous. :)
ReplyDeleteI got bit by a dog yesterday! It's the first time since I've been training that I ever got bitten! It was a little Boston Terrier and he bit me on the back of the leg thru my jeans. Good thing I had on jeans. The bite would have been really bad as my leg is black and blue , has a blood blister and a small puncture! Sheesh! It's the same leg I got the bee bite so I was feeling pretty sorry for myself last night.
We're going to the Harvest Dinner tonight and I so wish you and Doug were going to be there. How are you doing? Have you made some friends out there yet? And what state are you in? I don't even know!
I think you might have to double click on your comment to get it to post. That's what just happened to me on this last post.
ReplyDeleteThe book idea was the four of us would write our own story - put it together into one book :)
ReplyDeleteI wonder what "universal" message you may be getting :) I'd have to find my Louise Hays book !To find see what that side of the body means..bees have to do with organization...a mean little dog I have no idea! I hope that is the end of beating up on that leg.
I'm in Maryland, a town that is basically in between D.C. and Baltimore. Called Severn. Other than family that live in DC and Baltimore, I'm staying to myself for the moment. I've only been here 3 weeks. I unpacked a rock Gavin gave me the other day and started crying...So I'm still processing and working on things.
Have fun at the dinner give hugs to each other for me.