It's Just What We Do
It's been awhile since I have blogged. So first for the blunt parts, the tough stuff: In the span of about two weeks in June/ July, one of our dogs Lily, Brian's favorite died and we realized he needed a walker and was no longer safe to drive. Blessed to be ambulatory more than one year from diagnosis as well as talking and eating and breathing okay, these loses were all still bitter pills to swallow and not pills I can sweeten for our consumption or anyone else's. Knowing what will happen and watching it actually occur are different things indeed. So how do we cope? One foot in front of the other, mine strong, his weakening but still moving. Work, housework, animals (our salvation at the moment). You call the ALS Society and get more odds and ends to help. You cope, because it's just what you do. We love the animals we still have so that helps. We love just hanging out with each other so that helps. I went to a movie and to the Cat Video Festival this week with a...