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December 19, 2003

Finally, I'm home

It's been a long 3 weeks - only 2 1/2 days at home in all that time. My plane got in right around midnight last night, or this morning, and John, dear sweet love of mine, picked me up. He does not like to wait around at airports, who does? But he takes me to and from the airport all the time just because he loves me.

I got up this morning and drove out to the Little Apple (Manhattan, Kansas) to retrieve Andy from KSU for the holidays. On our way home, we stopped at our wonderful veterinarian to pay off anything we owed her before the holidays (Nicki lets us run a tab, we have a lot of critters!). Nicki had Mickey's ashes for us, so I got Mickey, too.

Thru the years, I have had a lot of veterinarians, but Nicki Greene is a precious gift to animals and their humans. She came out to give me a hug because we lost Mickey (a few weeks ago) and this was the first time she had seen me. Honest to God, true tears came to her eyes while we talked about Mickey's last days and how much John had done to make her last days as happy as possible. She is as much a physician for our souls as she is for our pets. Dr. Greene cares as much about her patients' humans as she does her patients. A lot of medical doctors could learn from her.

So now, I have 5 little boxes of pet ashes. Some day, I need to think about where to put the ashes of our best friends. I have thought about throwing a special pot for each one, and putting some kind of likeness on the pot. ( yeah, I have a wheel and kiln, but no time). I don't know. They do deserve better than cardboard boxes.

Posted by Beth at December 19, 2003 03:10 PM