Recently I visited with my neighbors. They are a very lovely couple. She calls me her daughter and I’m ok with that. They are an elderly European couple and they would give you the shirt off their backs if they could. In the few years that we have lived beside them we have learned many things. Today I was updating them on the sale of our home and they were telling me that they were going to be sad when we move. I told them that when we move they will probably see us more than they do now. So as conversations go on they tell me that their son is planning on taking the family on a trip to see their family in Europe for his birthday, them included. Her husband says he will go and his wife ever so hesitantly says she will not go. I asked why and I listened and I told her that this may be the last time that the whole family would be together, and that she would get all the help she needs from her family on the journey. I recognized that travel for her will be taxing (as it is for me) and I told her that when she gets there she will just need to take a few days to relax and to be honest and tell them what she needs. Let everyone else run around and do whatever stuff they want to do but you will need to rest. Then she countered with what if her health turned for the worse and her husband said we have insurance. I piped up and said we all have to die at some point hopefully not on you, when you are back visiting your birthplace when you visit on your son’s birthday. But if your time comes on that day at least you are surrounded by a family that loves and cares for you. Not alone here in the house, with your family going worried crazy about you here. I told her everyday until that trip you are going to tell yourself that you are going, and if I need to pack your bags myself I will. you need to go on that trip, life is too short and you need to stop being a bystander!
My point here is and I explained it to them ….when I see someone given a golden opportunity like that and to not take it…drives me crazy! Before I found out that I carry the HD gene. I would have been ..oh well too bad. Now I am like, seize the opportunity to squeeze all the juice out of the fruit you have because the last few drops might be the sweetest you’ve ever had! They don’t know what card lifes going to deal them no one does. Hence why I told them I try and take as much out of each day that I do. Maybe that is why I take the time to write in this journal so that someday someone might read it and say hey I get that and perhaps feel a tad bit inspired or motivated. HD is just that right now just 2 letters in my medical record that have got me to wake up and do my best to kick ass as best I can out of my days. One day ..I don’t know when HD may become my future and that is why I am choosing to live my life as best I can NOW so I can say….yeah I did that. Not I wish I had done that!
I’ve been having a great time with my bestie this week. Getting some 1 on 1 time with My floppy eared 4 legged friend! How can I not give him a shout out here? He asks for belly rubs and he gets them. All that extra attention he doesn’t get at home he gets here. As well as being spoiled with lots of extra treats and bones. Heck even my mom came out of the woodworks just to see him. She hasn’t seen him in a while and you could tell by the greeting she got! As much as she tries to avoid getting her face licked by that giant pink tongue it is unavoidable! If he doesn’t get it in during the first round of excitement he will eventually sneak it in when you least expect it. If he can do it multiple times well then he’s golden and you are just good and wet! Still don’t know how you managed to get through to my barriers and turn my stone cold heart into mush for you and all doggie friends that come through that front door! You have broken me in that sense and it’s not a bad thing. So while you were here the weather was good and how could we not go for a walk? You + Me = Best Walking Buddies Ever. When I walk with you I feel very happy and almost silly. You take all my stress away and when you look at me with that smile on your face and your tail wagging away I know you feel the same way too. Well the challenge was your prong collar! I had no idea how it functioned first off, so we googled it. But then we couldn’t squeeze it enough to make it fit in the loops. I know hubby said don’t walk him in case he pulls, I don’t want him to hurt you! But we had to go for one even if it was a short one. Both of us were going stir crazy inside on a beautiful day! So we just used another leash and we went close by and you were just perfect and both of us over the moon happy. Later on in the evening my husband noticed the leashes weren’t like he left them last night and he asked me did you take him for a walk? I told him yes we did but just a little one nowhere far ….phew. We didn’t face his wrath. I asked him, how can we stay at home on a beautiful day? I mean at that point what can he say….everyone knows that I trust you way too much and that is either a good thing or a bad thing. Yes you are only a dog but you are my bestie and that’s the way it will always be!
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