Thankful For Healing And People Who Touched Our Lives

Today we are thankful for several things from the past week. One always has to look for the bright side of things, and also remember that things can change in the blink of an eye.

My first order of business is some good news regarding Mom’s nasty collarbone break. This is a good example of fine one second, needing surgery a second later. It’s been seven and a half weeks since the “incident”, six and a half since surgery. Mom had her appointment with her surgeon Monday and everything looks great!

The x-ray on the left is from the day she broke the bone, and the one on the right is from Monday. Everything is still where it needs to be, and is healing well. Mom already has such good range of motion in her arm, she can completely skip physical therapy! That really makes her happy as she isn’t a therapy fan.

She no longer has to wear a sling, but for six more weeks she needs to be careful with that arm and shoulder, and not lift more than five to ten pounds. Sadly, leaping is also out, but I am determined to give her hugs and kisses. She is teaching me to give half hugs on her left side. It will do until we can leap again.

On the sad news front, Emma’s breeder in the UK passed away last week. It was quite a shock, even though she was around ninety years old. She was still completely active and had delivered a litter of five puppies right before she passed away in her home. Vivien was huge in the dog world and did so much for the GBGV breed. Mom is one of the few who does sports with GBGV’s and Vivien found it so wonderful. Over the years she featured us in some of her newsletters and on her website. She will be sorely missed by hounds and humans alike.

Yesterday we found out Mom’s favorite veterinarian passed away. Mom brought her dogs and cats to her for many years until she left and moved to Washington State. She wasn’t that old, and we don’t know what happened. Mom says she was the best vet she has ever had in the USA. Pets lost a good one with her passing.

We are thankful for Mom’s healing and for having such wonderful people in our lives.

We’re joining Brian’s Home Blog in the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!