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Memories of Tim

I never expected to loose my dog, my love, my baby at Christmas. When we brought you into the emergency vet clinic on Christmas eve I felt relief when they said they were going to admit you. I felt you were in better hands there and they could make you better, they could help you. I had been watching you slowly starving yourself over a period of several months. Feeling you had problems with your teeth, then you were picky and didn't want to eat dog food, thinking it could be so many different things, cancer wasn't even on the plate then. I had been down that road before and its not fair, it isn't fair once you have lost a dog to cancer that the lightening strike you twice. As the days went by that you were still in the emergency vet's, I was starting to falter on my feeling that everything would be already. I dared not even speak the words out loud, but the worry was keeping me up at night. I prayed. I prayed a lot. I begged. Please, he is such a good dog, he is such a good boy and he is, not quite 7, in the prime of his life. Greyhounds as a whole have had hard lives. please let mine be ok to come back home to a family that loves him. When the diagnosis of stomach cancer that had spread to his intestines and GI tract came back, I knew to answer his prayers I had to make a decision, right away. Luckily Nonnie said she would come with me, your Daddy didn't want me driving alone and he could not come with me due to work schedule. We drove there that night, and held him in our arms until he was comfortable enough to fall off into a deep sleep. He slept so sound he didnt hear the vet come in. I was holding him in my arms and whispering in his ear when he drifted off to that eternal sleep. He never heard my heart break. Rest well Tim.. I will meet you on the bridge someday. 01/06/11 Its a new year. That is the first time I wrote down the year. I went to the Hinsdale pet cemetery today and picked up your ashes. They came in a little white box. Tomorrow we will be making a trip to the store to look for an appropriate urn for you, and since Dug and Simon are still in their little tin's I think they need urns also. I can't believe I now have a shelf with ashes of 4 of my beloved greyhounds. Loosing you and Dug within 3 months of each other was quite a blow. I still cry when you cross my mind, which is everyday still. I'm going to see if I can dig up some more pictures to add to your photo album here. On 02/06/11, 1 month after I brought home your ashes, we visited MGA and met Adam. Adam Ant, as we call him is 22 months old and now he has a wonderful home and loving family. Is this the reason you left us, because your time here was done? When Simon left me, he opened up a space in our home and hearts for you to come in. Thank you, thank all of my wonderful greyhounds who have that connection to one another. I left so you could come. I made room for you because you needed it. Please also visit Dug.

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