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Man AND woman's best friend

Melissa - posted on 04/23/2009 ( 4 moms have responded )

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PRAISE GOD I've never been one to choke on apologies! LOL!!! :):) Wanted to share another "I'm so sorry" with all of you for my lengthy absence...again. Almost two weeks ago, one of our "best friends (e.g. dogs) was diagnosed with Lymphoma. Weston (AKA "Fwend") was given no longer than 4 months. The past week and a half has been filled with A NUMBER of vet visits and some REALLY tough choices about meds and chemo. Weston happens to be our youngest dog...turning 7 this year. He was rescued at 2 months old from a ditch beside a road where someone had thrown him from a car window (at least that was the Vet's best guess). He was dehydrated, had a broken leg and was on the brink of death. The vet turned him over to a WONDERFUL rescue group called "Foothills Golden Retriever Rescue (as a pup he STRONGLY resembled a Golden). My husband and I took him in and fostered him until a "forever home & parents" adopted him. As the months passed, he began to grow in to looking as much like a Chow as a Golden. MANY potential adopters couldn't get by this...not even with his beautiful brown eyes and loving and winsome personality. The Rescue Group was at a loss what to do when my husband (whom had grown VERY attached to him) and I agreed to adopt him. He's been a part of our family since: having even went on our honeymoon with us! :):) Needless to say, this has hit us HARD. Did I mention how hard this has hit us??? ;) PLEASE keep us in your prayers; that our Lord gives us the strength to withstand watching his health fail. And to be able to send him on to...well, to perhaps the pearly white gates. Am clinging to the hope that I will see my beloved pets again one day. At this point, he's on a host of meds and is doing quite well. We opted out on chemo" we just don't have the $5,000+ to spend on it. Oh, how I wish we did.:( But I have not given up on my dear friend, and pray for him nightly. I do serve a God, after all, that is in the business of miracles! PRAISE HIM!!!

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Teresa - posted on 05/07/2009

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Melissa....pets are not "just pets" they become members of our families. How wonderful that God has given to you and your family a loving four legged member to share the joy of your household, who has stamped a pawprint on your hearts. I trust in God that he will cradle all of you in the palm of HIS hand through what is going to be a difficult journey. The love pets give, is just another example of the unconditional love God offers us. We lost our cat last July after having her from birth, she was 10 1/2 years old. We put her down and had but a day's notice. Enjoy the time you have with Weston, cherish him, love him as I know you will. Thank God for the time you had with him.

Heather - posted on 04/25/2009

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He was a church goer, but I do not believe that he was saved. I have prayed for him many times, but had no contact with him for the last 15 years. He sexually abused my sister, myself, and many other young children, thus causing the divorce between my mother and him. But I have prayed that he had come around since then, but I truly have no idea.

Melissa - posted on 04/24/2009

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And I'm so thankful to you for allowing God to work through you, Heather. I had not thought about "...God giving me time to prepare and pray..." with having the knowledge of his cancer beforehand. Thank you, again, for pointing out one of the ways He is working in my life...I might have missed this.

My condolences over your ex-step dad. I pray he knew our Lord?

Heather - posted on 04/24/2009

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I have prayed for your family and for Weston. God's will will be done, and I know that it will be good, because God is Good. My childhood dog died about a month ago, she was reaching 16 years, and died of old age. The vet said her heart just stopped while she was sleeping. She was living with my ex-step dad, and he was very upset about it and died of a heart attack in the grocery store two weeks later. Pet's can have a huge effect on their people. I'm very thankful that God has given you time to prepare, and pray, I believe that that can make a difference.

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