Tag: loss

Addiction: I finally understand.

Last year at this time I had the New Year’s resolution of organization.  I started a systematic purge of all cabinets and cupboards.  I celebrated each bag I dropped at the Goodwill donation center.  I worked my way through the kitchen and then arrived at the bathroom.   I  dug to the back of the cabinets to discover the items I never use anymore.  My cleaning spree ground to a halt.

About nine years ago, I took a trip to the emergency room due to intense intolerable pain.  This began an almost two year span of constant physical pain.

That Person – Our Pet Emergency

“Please help me!” I yelled as I entered the emergency room. I have never been that person before, but there I stood, tear streaked face, clutching a hard plastic pet cage that shook in my hands. Inside, Hazel, our beautiful tan 16 lbs terrier mutt was convulsing and each spasm extracted a shrill yelp that went straight through my heart. Strangers had seen my desperation and acted with compassion. Someone had pointed out the way, someone had helped my 4-year-old daughter down the stairs and two others opened the glass doors just as we arrived at the pet hospital. In my grasp was the closest thing my girl has to a sibling, we only had her three months and she was dying.

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