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Death comes calling whenever it wants,\u00a0 not worrying about the season or the weather or the inclinations of the living.\u00a0 Kate’s colleague, Dick, suffering from multiple myeloma has gone on hospice care after two years of often brutal treatment regimens.\u00a0 Bill Schmidt’s brother, who has prostate cancer, also chose hospice care recently to ease the pain of complications.<\/p>\n
Tonight I was on my first Political Committee call of the year, a Sierra Club committee that deals in endorsements and retail politics.\u00a0 The dogs were making noise so I quick ran upstairs to shoo them inside.\u00a0 Emma didn’t come inside.\u00a0 She lay under the cedar tree.\u00a0 I’ve watched a lot of dogs die over the last 20 years and when I went to her side, she looked up at me, but had the stare that looks beyond, out a thousand yards, or is it infinity?\u00a0 Her body was cold and she did not rise.<\/p>\n
Vega, the big puppy, came outside and poked at Emma with her paw, sat down and nuzzled her.\u00a0 Vega loves Emma, has since she was a little puppy.\u00a0 I called Kate to let her know I thought Emma was dying.\u00a0 Emma’s fourteen, our oldest dog right now, and our oldest dog ever with the possible exception of Iris.\u00a0 At fourteen her time is near, perhaps it will come yet tonight.\u00a0 Right now she’s on the couch, wrapped in a blue blanket, her head on her favorite pillow.<\/p>\n
She seems a bit more alert now and Kate says her heartbeat is regular.\u00a0 She may have had an arrhythmia and converted it, that is, brought herself back into normal rhythm.\u00a0 Hard to say.\u00a0 As Kate said, she appears to have the dwindles.<\/p>\n
When I compared the call, about politics, and Emma lying outside, I realized Emma was more important to me than the call, so I stayed with her awhile, brought her inside and made her comfortable on the couch.\u00a0 Then I returned to the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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