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Originally Posted by airplane  Just wanted to share a pic of Maezie, so I attached a pic to this post. These last 6 days have been horrible. When I lost Bijou a few months ago it hurt a lot but in a very different way than this. He was so old and had dementia, and with Maezie it was just so sudden and unexpected. The shock factor has just been unbelievable. I'm scared that I'm going to be grieving for a very long time. It just shatters your life. And it just feels hard to function and you just feel very sad. |
Maezie was so beautiful! You're in the midst of one of life's greatest stressors.Losing a beloved family member is so painful and life-altering, especially when it happens so suddenly and unexpectedly. Help yourself with grieving by going easy on yourself, pampering yourself, taking more time to rest and seek out professional help if you need it so that you don't suffer needlessly. Healing from this kind of grief is slow and intense so anything you can do to try to help yourself cope with this deep pain is strongly advised.
I know you aren't "there" yet but one thing that would help you process the pain and move forward would be to consider giving another sweet doggie a loving home as soon as you can. You know there's another dog out there who needs love, hope, needs someone with love and a home to give. Dogs love it when we are happy. Maezie would want you to be happy again and if her passing somehow spurred you to give a needy little dog a loving home, you know she would approve.
When I lost each of my other two Yorkies, I now know I took too long grieving before I reached out for another Yorkie and now realize had I had another little Yorkie to love much sooner, life could have been oh so much less hurtful and depressing than it was. I now know that had I reached for the help and love of another Yorkie, I could have spared myself so much long-term pain.