What Pets Can Do: Health and Healing

@pkh3381 It’s some years since you posted this. I hope you did get your cat and are having a wonderful time together?!

Please update us ❤️‍🩹🐾.

This post is so timely. I’m currently in remission from stage 4 incurable appendix cancer. With the support of others on here last year I brought home 2 littermate puppies at 9 weeks old (after researching all the potential issues around littermates). They have just turned one and are such lovable wee souls. Not to mention very mischievous with 2 very intelligent minds working out how to have fun!!

My numbers have been shifting a bit and I do worry about falling ill again, sooner than I expected.

I thought I had made all the necessary plans in advance but I hadn’t counted on behavioural issues in my little boy Benji (he’s an anxious little boy) and just how much they both love and need me. We will work through it when I do get sick again (it’ll happen). In the meanwhile I work hard on training and bringing up 2 good members of society 🐾❤️‍🩹😊

I am so blessed with very close friends who are like family as well as 2 nieces and their husbands who would bend over backwards to help, if needed. My best friend and executor offered to take them both should I pass.

In the meanwhile I am fortunate to be in a good financial situation so I get by with recurring professionally supervised dog playgroups in the park and, when I’m in hospital, boarding.

Fortunately I am still very well and fit. We love our daily long sniffy walks and playing off lead in a couple of special parks where the other dogs and owners have been lovely. They are also sort of (!) good at being left alone together a few hours frequently during the week. They have a large puppy proofed TV room so they are free to play and rough house. They can still find things to chew in there despite the puppy proofing fences etc (including the carpet on a few occasions but it already was due for replacement!)

I keep reminding myself that where there’s a will, there’s a way 🐾♥️

Hi Robn3,
I'm sorry that you are so alone and your kids aren't helping you with your surgery coming up too. Plus the stress of a divorce and insomnia. That's very sad.
I know about being alone since my husband died a year ago last July. He had lung cancer. Plus my son hasn't contacted me in 30 years. I follow him on X but I don't communicate with him. I know he wouldn't answer anyway. But at least I know if he's still alive. It's very hard to cope with loneliness. I have a few friends but they are all busy with their lives so they don't have much time. I spend much of my time cleaning my house and going to the grocery store and the bank. I also pray a lot and it helps. God answers my prayers.

I'd love to communicate with you! I may not be too interesting but at least you won't feel so alone; and neither will I.

What kind of surgeries did you have? That must have been very hard on your body. Even one surgery is hard on someone's body. I'm lucky in that all I have wrong with me at age 79 is incontinence which is problematic in itself but nothing really life threatening.

I will say a prayer for you that things get better for you and your kids start to realize that they have a Mom who loves them.
I wish you the best.
PML

They look like they have a lot of lab in them and so they are still puppies, until they are at least 2 years old. They will be quieter than you imagine in several more years.

Yeah, I worried about the ethics of getting a puppy at my being 72 years old. I did when my son said he would take her if I passed before she did. 10 years later, we have both slowed down, but are still moving.

Best of luck to you.