Ruff Week Month

This past week was the first week I abstained from blogging while not on the road. The reason…

I had to regroup with my wife after receiving yet more bad news. As many of you know my dog Curly passed away 4 weeks ago this Monday. The following Monday a minor fender bender rendered my car a “total loss”, hardly a concern given the news we received a week later. This past Monday (the third Monday in a row with bad news) we had to rush our youngest dog Zoe (6 years old) into emergency surgery. Zoe had been in otherwise great health, but had to have her ruptured spleen removed along with 6 pounds of bloody fluid drained from her abdomen. She came out of the surgery like a trooper, but the next day when I picked her up I got devastating news that Zoe’s condition was the result of a very aggressive form of cancer.

Zoe 4 days after surgery (Note her shaved tummy)

While Zoe is quickly rebounding to her normal self we’re faced with a short window to continue to enjoy her company (without chemotherapy the prognosis is 2 weeks to 3 months and with chemotherapy 5-6 months). All of this came out of  left field, so it’s been a rough road to adapting to our world being turned upside down. I only hope we avoid more bad news as we ramp up to welcome our new son into the world in the coming month.