Today is Tuesday July 28, 2015 and i was reading the post I wrote for Monday and realized I had left out the single most important, yet devastating, thing that happened over the weekend.
I guess I did a good job blocking it from my mind as it was something that was very upsetting.
Our beloved labrador who we had for just over 10 years had to be put down. He got cancer which resulted in tumors in and on his body. It started about 8 months ago where we noticed little bumps on his skin which later, and quickly, turned into large tumors on his skin.
We opted for surgery as we thought the tumors could be removed, but about three months after the surgery the tumors began popping up all over his body, despite being on 24/7 steroids which were supposed to shrink the tumors.
We took him to Happy Pets in Valencia where we have been going for a while last Sunday and Dr. Johnson said it didn’t look good and if it were her dog she would opt to euthanize. We decided that we would give it a week so we could have a few more days with him, and later that week on Friday at 5:20 we took him to put him down.
You love pets, but this part is so hard. This is the second lab we put down in 2 years. The other one got cancer also, but he was much younger, just 7 years old. The hardest part was the kids, who have known the Scout since they were 4 and 7, so basically their entire lives.
When our last lab died, Saber, we were convinced by our daughter, Aundrea, that we needed another dog. So we have an almost 3 year old lab named Hudson.
Here is a picture of our Scout (along with our Hudson as a baby who terrorized Scout)
So, like i said, for me to write an article on a Monday after a traumatic event over the weekend, i must have really blocked it out on Monday.
I have to say that on day 2 of writing these more personal posts, i am really enjoying it as a sort of recap to the day or even to log in and write a few sentences during the day as my crazy busy days permit.
I think another way of coping for me was to decide to take our 3 year old lab out for a run every day. This was day two of our runs and because I have not ran in a while, my legs are really sore. Definitely limping around the office today when going to get coffee in the kitchen.
Today has been a super busy day and have started 2 new divorce cases, working on a new Request For Order and answering all the phone calls that come it from new potential clients. I tell ya, the summer months slow down a bit due to the kids being out of school, but now that they are starting to go back we are already picking up the pace.
Until tomorrow. Tim
