In Loving Memory...

My heart is a broken mess today and my mind just has not been able to grasp even the most simplest of tasks. I just cannot think of anything else right now, other then the fact remains that my dog, whom has been with me since I was in the 7th grade, is gone.

I knew this day was nearing, from the last time I seen the old girl a couple of years back. Brindy was not the same after a tumor was taken off of one of her legs. I absolutely wanted to get back there a.s.a.p. just to see her again, even if for the last time.

But alas, that was not to be.

My parents called me last night to tell me that they had to take her down to the pound. She was suffering. Another tumor had grown out, this time right below her tail. She barely survived the last operation to remove the one on her leg and this one was just going to be too much I believe.

I am just too sad, too broken up to do much of anything else right now. Maybe once my thoughts have been better sorted and I come to terms with reality, I will come back here and share a thought or two. To me, my heart aches as though I had just lost a member of my family and you know what? I have.

My folks always said those dogs, especially Brindy, was my "kids." I remember when she had puppies and the Humane Society came around because of the them always running out to the roadside. When asked who's dog she was, my step dad said "that's his kids."

I miss 'em all, more today then ever before....