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Strategies & Market Trends : Piffer OT - And Other Assorted Nuts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (3073)	8/5/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: Lost1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 63513

Thanks to everyone who expressed their concerns about Winston, the 3 legged dog. The doctor sent his X-ray off to A&M (Aggies) to interpret and felt that he was correct in his diagnosis of bone cancer. The poor guy (Winston) has been getting steroid shots for over a year for his arthritis. I suspect that this was the problem all along and this was not evident until the Xray prior to surgery for a knee problem. He was already under when this development occurred. Since he has tumors all over him the Dr. thought it had probably spread everywhere. It turns out that he's not terminal yet...at least not without some help. So now the stories of 'life ain't that bad with 3 legs' trickle in from various staff at the Vet office. Things like, "I had a friend who's dog lived with this for over a year". I find this a small consolation and quite frankly don't like the idea of my frisbee dog lying around waiting for someone to lift his caboose so he can take a dump. I'm not sure at what point euthanasia becomes the obvious choice, but apparently we aren't there yet. Such things are too hard to deal with. With my favorite cat, Libre, I knew it was the right thing. Anyway, my wife isn't ready to give up on having him in our lives so he will now assume the role of geriatric canine for as long as she can stand it. No surgery. More drugs. Today was a bonified, real life, we are alive and living on planet Earth kind of day. Before we knew for sure how the day would end we were all consoling each other. My wife and I were flashing back to the day we brought him home. Many of us have these pets long before we start our human families and they represent our lives from a time long gone. A time we can never regain, when things were so much simpler and answers were so much more clear to us. My kids have never been around when there weren't 2 huge dogs weaving their way through the family. My 5 year old daughter was smiling since she didn't know what to make of mommy and daddy crying. My 8 year old was crying harder than we were and my boys (10 & 7) were sitting quietly, which is a very unusual scene in our house. My point---It is so wonderful to have people you love and care about with you and supporting you and mourning, laughing, LIVING IT with you. Today confirmed to me that I am one of the luckiest people on the planet. You people, my SI friends, contributed to this feeling. Thank you to everyone for your emotions and feelings. It's great to be alive! Kirk ps--Lami, my yellow lab, doesn't know about this so let's keep it quiet for now.