I am sure that most of you who have been checking this already know that on Christmas morning we lost our 6 month old Blue girl, Ria, to pneumonia.
I don't know when I will be able to see Merci and Moonbeam laying on the bed and not feel like something is missing. I'm not sure when I will be able to see one of them napping and not go check their breathing ~ just to make sure. And I don't know if I will ever be able to look at Merci's face and not see her beautiful daughter in her eyes.
If any dog can touch our hearts and change our lives, it is a Great Dane, and if any dog can feel our pain and comfort us, it is that Dane's mother. As I sit here at my computer, crying as I type this, Merci is resting her head on my arm. Yes, her big heavy head makes it difficult to type, but I need her too much right now to ask her to go lay down . . .
We are a couple of mourning mommies. We shared the responsibilities of raising Ria from the moment she was born. Even more than would be normal because Merci had a c-section. When one of us would get tired, the other took over for a while.
Now we share the grief.
Rob and I are more grateful than ever that we have Moonbeam in our home, as we cuddled her closely to ease the pain and find hope for our future in her sweet face.
2006 was a lesson for us in "That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger" - Nietzsche
I don't know when I will be able to see Merci and Moonbeam laying on the bed and not feel like something is missing. I'm not sure when I will be able to see one of them napping and not go check their breathing ~ just to make sure. And I don't know if I will ever be able to look at Merci's face and not see her beautiful daughter in her eyes.
If any dog can touch our hearts and change our lives, it is a Great Dane, and if any dog can feel our pain and comfort us, it is that Dane's mother. As I sit here at my computer, crying as I type this, Merci is resting her head on my arm. Yes, her big heavy head makes it difficult to type, but I need her too much right now to ask her to go lay down . . .
We are a couple of mourning mommies. We shared the responsibilities of raising Ria from the moment she was born. Even more than would be normal because Merci had a c-section. When one of us would get tired, the other took over for a while.
Now we share the grief.
Rob and I are more grateful than ever that we have Moonbeam in our home, as we cuddled her closely to ease the pain and find hope for our future in her sweet face.
2006 was a lesson for us in "That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger" - Nietzsche
What turned out to be Ria's last days with us:
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