The Dog Days Off Are Over.

***DISCLAIMER: I wrote this two weeks ago and waited until now to make sure it was actually funny not just I've-been-crying-for-two-hours-and-have-now-descended-into-more-generalized-hysterics funny***
Hey Mom!
So today is my day off. I slept in, I lounged and drank coffee but as the afternoon rolled around I decided to motivate myself to workout. I decided to do this by watching Youtube clips of dog rescue shows. I know what you are thinking Those two things are unrelated. To that I would say, that if a Dalmatian with backward eyelids can overcome their trauma and go onto to live a normal life after someone spends 16 hours trying to rescue them from under the floorboards of a bowling alley and then a vet does the surgery for free then I can definitely, definitely manage to workout on my day off.
The title I clicked on was the same as all the other titles, something like "Super Team does everything they can, will it be enough?" AND YOU KNOW WHAT, LOU-AARON? IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ENOUGH. So I watched it with all the confidence in super team:
The little puppy is being fed every 2 hours, bathed every 4, doing PT 6 times a day.
Wow super team! You have your work cut out for you.
After a month of no improvement, the tiny baby puppy is declining and in pain.
Wow, I wonder what kind of miraculous discovery the vet is going to make to save this sweet doggo’s life.
They have a very important discussion about hospice care. Sad music starts playing.
They are right, it is such a difficult but such a necessary conversation. Anyway, do your thing super team!  I know with my whole heart that the little guy is going to be ok.
And then they euthanize the dog. 
At this point, I lose it. I am sobbing in my living room, clutching my laptop to my chest, telling a puppy that has been dead since 2015 it's going to be ok and he is so, so brave.
In case you are wondering, I am not working out today. I am still on the couch probably grieving for a not-so-recently deceased dog I have never met. I have spent the last hour watching "heartwarming dog compilations" trying to control zed my feelings.

This is my parents' dog who is very much alive and very handsome in his Christmas tie to ease our collective sorrow.
SO BE CAREFUL WITH THE INTERNET! NOT ALL OF IT IS CLICKBAIT SO GUARD YOUR HEART!
That is all.

 ps. I wrote a book! If you haven't checked it out yet click here

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Richard Cross 1960-2014

Image
Loss can seem unfair in so many ways.  It feels unfair when it seems too soon.  It feels unfair that some pass old and grey while others seem to live within the span of mere moments.  To me, the most unfair aspect of loss is that nothing stops.  Tomorrow will still come, the phone will still ring.  People will continue working and tweeting and texting as if all is well in the world.  The world should stop, everyone should stop. Why don't they stop? Richard Cross had an impact on the people that he met.  Richard Cross was a husband, a father, a brother, a friend.  Richard Cross was significant, and saw the significance of the people he interacted with. So why? Why during this time of loss is there still work and traffic and classes? How can the internet machine continue to churn out meaningless posts while we are faced with the daunting task of mixing joy and sorrow?  While we celebrate the life of Richard Cross and we accept the fact that our world is a little paler.  Why don&#
Read more

Irreversibly Redeemed

Hey Mom! Wanna hear something cool and mildly disgusting? Of course you do... that's why you're here.  I have two zits that are symmetrically located on either side of my nose... pretty awesome eh?  These gemini zits are brought to you by your local final exams.  That's right folks just 3 back to back exams and I am home free! You may have noticed that this weekend is Easter.  There are so many things I love about Easter: time with family, a long weekend and the knowledge that the last few new years resolution survivors are being crushed under the temptation of creme eggs and chocolate bunnies so all the Facebook statuses about them being better than the rest of us is going to finally come to an end. There is one thing about Easter that I do have a bit of a struggle with... the fact that someone else had to die for me. It's not because it doesn't paint the perfect picture of love... it does.   It's not because I don't believe it happened... I do
Read more

Animal Crossing: A Double Edged Sword

Image
Hey Mom! Let's just cut to the chase shall we? I GAVE MYSELF HAND-STRAIN BY PLAYING TOO MUCH ANIMAL CROSSING! This is me... not being weird at all. So I bought myself Animal Crossing after a particularly stressful day. You ever just want to be alone on an island? Where the sun is shining and nobody can bother you. Where you can slip into a nice cat-wizard outfit and lie on the beach without a care in the world.  Now I may have been overzealous in curating the perfect island (I have a parade of fossils set up). AND THEN I DID THIS: So 85 hours is probably too many... definitely too many. So I noticed my hands felt sore where the console sits on my thumb flesh (again sorry, much like neck meat there's no good terminology... I would assume I did not check). BUT THEN MY HANDS LOCKED UP LIKE I HAD CARPAL TUNNEL! I went to pick up a pen and my finger locked in place, and you know what? IT WAS TERRIFYING, OLIVIONNE!  And you know in these trying times I am
Read more