OOOOOHHH Sandy.....my heart BREAKS for you and what you are facing now.....most of us have been right where you are, and, as I sit here at work, sobbing, with co-workers walking past wondering who in my family has died, I cry not only for you and Tina, but for all the others...myself included....my precious little Bumper, my precious Aija.....even gone for 3 and 4 years now...I feel they really do let you know when they can go on no longer...both of mine did....we love these angels with all our hearts and souls, just as they love us.....I carry a poem in my billfold....."....and my friend, when I am very old and I can no longer see your precious face, or hear your gentle loving voice, do not make heroic efforts to keep me from my destiny. Please, see that my life is taken gently, holding me close and stroking me lovingly, and I shall leave this Earth knowing with the last breath I take, the last beat of my heart, my fate was ALWAYS safest in your hands." "She is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are her life, her love, her leader. She will be yours, loyal, faithful, and true til the very last beat of her heart.....You owe it to her to be worthy of such complete devotion." |