Most of you know from watching my posts and reading my status updates on Facebook that I love my dogs as if they were children. When we lost Hunter this spring to cancer it broke my heart and it has remained broken since. I still can rarely speak of how much he loved us without choking up. As some of you may know we added another little angel to our family about 2 weeks ago. Sofia is an adorable 10 week old Italian Greyhound. She began to heal our hearts a bit. It is difficult to get too depressed when you are getting puppy kisses. However this healing heart lasted only a week and a half as our adorable Lexi became ill over this past weekend and was accidentally diagnosed with a tumor on her spleen. Immediately the heart break returned with a vengeance at the thought of loosing yet another beautiful soul to this horrible disease. For the worst 24 hours of my life thus far I began to grieve the loss of this unconditional love machine, and try to imagine our lives without her. Lexi loves to sun herself regardless of the temps outside and the one thing I could not get out of my head was how she would love our new house with so much land and sunning space and how not having her there would make it a slightly empty place.
I have always believed in the power of prayer and positive thinking but I could barely muster the strength to pray for the second time in a year that God protect and keep my baby safe. This is when the prayers of others came in to play. I realized today just how many people in my life truly understand the relationship that we have with our dogs and how empty our lives would be without them. I felt prayers and well wishes and positive thought coming at us from all directions and our baby pulled through a very serious surgery and is home with us tonight. She is doing well and for that I am truly thankful.
To all of our friends and family who sent us positive energy... thank you... THANK YOU... THANK YOU... You pulled us through when we did not have the energy to do it ourselves.
