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hello, M --

i'm really glad we've been able to help! and i'm even more glad (gladder? sounds like a body part) that you've started taking your meds again and that your family has been pitching in for you.

please keep writing as much as you want/need to.

i send caring thoughts and hope you will keep us posted on how you are doing.

-- susie margaret

well,hi everyone.hope everybody is doing good today.just to let everyone know,this weekend was a crappy one for me.on friday after having a wonderful vist with my daughter,i came home to find my beautiful dalmatian pit-bull had passed away from an illness she had been fighting,she choose my bed to pass away in.then sunday a 15 year old girl i new was found dead,the cause is a freak accident.so here i am still trying to take it all in.thanks susie for keeping in touch.

Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear your precious doggy died, it's almost like losing a best friend sometimes. And to have that 15 year old killed in an accident...what a lot of shocks in one weekend. I hope in time you can come to terms with all of it.
((hugs)))

I'm so sorry. My condolences. I am sending you a hug.

hello moe, i am so sorry for your losses. you have had a tough weekend. Wishing there were something i could say to ease your pain.

sending lots of ((((hugs)))))

hello, M --

i am so sorry about your dog. my 15-yr-old corgi died last fall, and i still miss her terribly, so i know how you feel. i haven't been able to bring myself to bury her ashes yet.

people who do not have or have never had pets don't really understand what it is like when a pet dies. but, after all, how many people have friends who have been with them for 15 yrs? she was with me thru two marriages, two divorces, countless apts and houses, countless moves from city to city, the deaths of both of my parents, two nervous breakdowns (or whatever we're supposed to call them these days), etc., etc.

when my first dog that was mine as an adult died, i couldn't bear to vacuum the carpet for a while because i didn't want to lose the little black wisps of fur that were everywhere. for weeks i had the sensation of a sort of void in the air behind me, where she used to follow me around all the time. i felt as if i couldn't breathe, and i couldn't talk about her death without dissolving into incoherence and tears, so i didn't even tell anyone for several days that she had died. when i was feeling overwhelmed, i would go take a shower, because i could scream and cry in there with less chance of being overheard.

in other words, it is very hard to lose a pet, and i send you my utmost sympathy. the only consolation i can offer is that the pain does dissipate with time and is eventually replaced by gratitude for having been able to share so many yrs together.

well, here i got carried away. i'm glad you wrote back to us even if the news was not good. that's why we're here -- to listen and to support each other emotionally thru bad times and good, but esp bad ones.

i send you caring thoughts and hope we will continue to hear from you.

-- susie margaret

Moe37 - losing your companion of 15 years, makes a person feel like a blubbering baby. We had to put Kirby 16.5 years old to sleep - in too much pain but never whimpered once. But when they can't get up to go to the bathroom - you know they have to be in pain. Can't believe those years went by so fast. Still have pictures of him and the youngest son growing up together plastered all over the house. I have a new friend now on 3, got him from the humane society. He doesn't replace Kirby, but he has his own loving personality.