Spiritdog
Well, just found out my dog, Spirit, has cancer.
If anyone is wondering, I named the blog first.
So, when I picked up this tiny squirming puppy almost seven years ago, I knew before I ever saw him, I was going to name him Spirit.
Well, as often as not, I call him Spiritdog.
I told the breeder, I wanted the pick of the litter and a male. I also knew before I went I was going to let him pick me.
There were five males waiting for me when I arrived, all playing together in an outdoor pen. They were all at one end of the pen so I sat on the grass at the other end and waited. All of them came and went but finally, one came over, laid down between my legs, rolled over on his back with his little legs up in the air and looked up at me. (He still does this). In that moment, I had found, in this entire universe, my new Golden Retriever.
So, now I am going to do whatever I can to give him the opportunity to heal himself.
Our medical system does what it can to treat symptoms. With cancer (whether people or dogs) the process is cut, poison and radiate (new research is slowly changing some of this). My deceased wife went through all of it many times over during 17 of the 20 years we were married before she died of cancer in 2008. Not a bad run. She did it with remarkable grace, so much so I wrote a book about her and our journey together titled Dianna’s Way.
So, I have had some experience with cancer.
Treating symptoms never cured anyone but it does buy us time for the body to heal itself. Sometimes we win, sometimes not. But, we all die one day anyway. The real challenge is to hug life tight, live with joy in our hearts and, when the time is right, let go.
So, here we go.
I am going to use this blog to track the entire treatment process for Spirit as well as what I need to do to support him on a practical day to day level . At the same time, I will also report what we go through on a more spiritual level. using the very practices I wrote about in my book, 11 Life Practices.
No doubt, I will do some things well and likely make mistakes too. I’m prone to doing both.
Will, unflinchingly, report all of it.
Until next time, be well my friends.
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