Continuing my story/letter to my best friend/elegy to Felony:
So, anyway...I got Buddy (I hated the name Danbury, and his demeanor helped rename him) home and it was like we were meant to be together...EVERYONE on this board knows the feeling I am talking about.
Things couldn't have gone better until I took him for a routine check up 2 weeks later. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was at work, and got a call: "Mr. Schultz? We have some bad news. We got the bloodwork back..It's heartworm, Mr. Schultz...Buddy tested positive for heartworm." I literally dropped the phone and started shaking. I didn't know what to do. I had just found this bundle of joy, and here he was, being taken from me. I knew how lethal the treatment could be. I asked them to re-run the bloodwork. They did, and called back two days later confirming the results. I cried, and cried, and cried. I couldn't imagine being without my boy...even after such a short time.
This is what reminded me of the pain Cori must be going through. It doesn't matter how long they're with us...but once they have touched our heart, the stain their pawprint leaves is indelible.
Lots of prayer, love and medicine pulled Buddy and I through. We've travelled the country together. I've bought a house so he would have a yard. I bought a car that would accomodate him (and his carsickness). He's the best thing that ever happened in my life, I think. Now that he's 9, I dread EVERYDAY the fact that he won't be with me forever. It scares me. What will I do? Will I have the strength to survive it? I'm not sure. I'm hoping that I'll be as strong as Cori is being right now. Cori, I'm with you in spirit...I feel your pain as if it were my own. I haven't been able to stop hugging Buddy tonight, because you never know what the future holds. In my mind, I'm hugging Felony tonight.
Sorry for the lengthy writings people....this news just hit me soooo hard.
Rich
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