Your Earlobes Aren’t Worried – A Tip From the Anxiety Trenches
I promise the silly title is worth it. You see, I’m increasingly amped up about a number of real-life things, but I recently developed a new coping mechanism for worry.
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Ocupado – Backstory Behind Champion of My Heart Absence
best dog blog, champion of my heart, traffic sign graphicLilly and I apologize for the sudden, unexplained absence from blogging these last two weeks. Due to a new and difficult stage in our eldercare responsibilities, we cannot promise it won’t happen again, but we’ll do our best to keep afloat and provide some entertainment.
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Top 10 Things I Miss Since Life Got Complicated
Starting in spring 2009, life around here got increasingly complicated with medical / health worries and looming grief on several fronts. The changes to my daily reality often feel beyond grim. I wade through life with a conscious bubble of gratitude around me. Yet, while tossing and turning the other night, I compiled a list of things I miss.
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The Benign Fallout and Celebration
Just a week. That’s all I had to survive between learning Lilly’s lump needed to come out and finding out it was nothing scary. I tried not to worry too much, but clearly I did. My body, in revolt, said, “Oh, @#$@ no!”
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Fearful Dog Vignette 1: Run Away
Even as we cross the threshold into year three of non-stop, multi-front, family medical dramas, we face the longest stretch of my real absence from Lilly’s daily life. That leaves me little blog content, except to whine. So, this week, I’ll share just a few reports of Lilly’s response to her life without me as #1 form of entertainment and comfort.
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Dog Life: Far and Away
Wednesday, Lilly’s grandma ended up in the emergency room and then the cardiac intensive care unit. This isn’t our first time at this kind of medical scare. These hospital stays mean lots of time away from the house, and I miss my Lilly girl. She misses me too.
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Fearful Dogs and Human Emotion
We’ve long established that Lilly, our canine heroine, responds to every shift around her. That’s true at home. It’s true when we’re out in public. It’s true in the various dog training classes we take. Yet, Lilly responds to different emotions in different ways. She finds sadness much less “scary” than frustration or anger or generalized grumpiness.