When people sit vigil with a loved one...

...Whether they are two legged or four legged, if you love that someone it is difficult knowing that their life, to quote a cancer.com commercial in reverse that they do have an expiration date... but somehow we all do, don’t we?

Sure no one lives forever; yet?

There are a few states in America that now allow people to die with dignity if the illness is terminal:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_in_the_United_States, and that could be due to Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian legacy and reasoning that like love, no one should have the power to tell you when it is time to end your life.

Sorry, lousy analogy, maybe not…but my point was with using love as a comparison is that NO ONE has the right to tell you who to love or marry i.e. who your sexual preferences should be.

In other words freedom of choice for those two too.

Why animals, actually, our four-legged kids for decades as far as I know we as their parents have had that privilege to not make a suffering pained friend/pet have to continue on with that horrible quality of life, and we were and are allowed to chose for them that finality.

For in that case we have been more humane than to our own human counterparts; does that make any sense?

Of course no one is assuming or lining up to become the next generation of Kevorkian’s.

All I am saying is that if there is a road of no return that faces us perhaps we too should weigh in on if our quality of life is the way we want to continue or are we going on to please our loved ones, not ourselves, get that?

Sure some feel it is a selfish act, not unlike many who commit suicide for mentally miserable existences that to them is also a form of fatality in their personal quality of life situations too… but there we all go judgmental again… And yes the word in the word component in being ‘judgmental’ is just that asking the other unasked question when we perform this action are we perhaps too emotional to decide for others, hmm? I think…maybe? Even for ourselves?

But it is so true that no one really knows better than one’s self for one’s self and that ‘they’ say is when we have all our faculties, but does anyone have logical thinking in truly emotional situations?

We would all have to be cold hard-heartless thinkers with the ability to step away from the problem in front of them, true?

Maudlin!

So so sorry!

Living with so ill a patient these days, even our loving pet/child of ten years  and seven months makes one become retrospective.

The crazy thing is now that he is eating that delicacy of sardines and brown rice with chopped carrots, several times today… he is acting not that sick, he even has been able to perform his daily doody that was smaller but healthy looking according Hubby’s reporting on such things…ha!

Come on people; don’t tell me you haven’t discussed potty things about all your kids and yes I do mean the two and four legged ones included!

When they were ill mostly or still being potty trained or on and on and on…?

Children are children and don’t any of you forget it and that is why…Skipper having a better day is also causing his Mom and Dad to have one too.

He is a snuggler in our bed taking turns with both of us given us his warmth from side to side and allowing us the joy of his love. He loves his Dad though and most of the day he shares the recliner with him, although when Hubby goes anywhere he is still a Mamma’s boy and ends up with me on mine!

Each day is a joy for us and isn’t that what life is all about?

He still wags that mighty tail with joy when we praise him or he sees us coming in from another room.

Oddly enough he hears things that we don’t still, but sure they all do and he will bark and ask to go out and he does with his Daddy usually…

This is so crazy, he is acting so normal, if it wasn’t for the two different vets giving the same diagnosis I would think they made a BIG mistake; now I ask is that denial?

Wishful thinking maybe, guilty…really, really, really GUILTY!

On that note of constant hope allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages with you who and we will too and next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS Perhaps those prayers are working, so don’t stop!