ONE YEAR 355K!!!

ONE YEAR: 355K!!!

Who doesn't love anniversaries? Bill and I just celebrated our 28th...hard to believe all those wonderful years have sped by.....Other anniversaries are not as happy, but still we mark them. In September 2000 I was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. I didn't really think at that time it would take away as much as it did...but oh what was given back!!! I could never imagine, fifteen years ago. 2004. Eleven years ago this spring. Seizures. Not a great anniversary, but again...the remarkable things that have happened...So...this November 15th, is this crazy blog's first anniversary!

I remember sweating through putting the website together, an IT wiz I am not. It was the third website that I had tried to get going. It seems that I understood wix a bit easier than the rest, or my stubborn brain finally figured out what I was attempting to do. Finally, finally I got the website going...and I was amazed when the little tickers started to climb...and climb...and climb! In the immortal words of actress Sally Fields~ “they like me, they really, really like me!” It was an amazement. Every week we would check it, like a gestating egg...and each week it grew bigger!

You've noticed that there is not a running thread from each post. There's a reason for that....I was so concerned that people being what they are, would write upsetting things. I didn't want that, especially since I am laying my heart out here with my dear dogs...and I didn't want it tromped on.

The road from here to there has been beyond difficult. Hard to express even to myself. When it seemed that life couldn't get much more difficult, four delicate white paws, a smiling yellow face and the 'wagginest' tail burst into my life...it was Jet!

I don't write much about Jet here, because this blog is Frax's. Jet started things though...when nothing worked with my epilepsy drugs, when we were worn out with going from doctor to doctor....Jet came into my life from Canine Assistants and completely gave me back my life. He was 18mos old. A baby still. 36 months later I found out he had terminal cancer. 12Months later he was gone.

And everything we had accomplished together was in danger of falling apart...

...till Frax! November 2011! Frax gave me his heart. Then he gave me my life back as well.

People don't easily understand what various services dogs do for their people. By starting this blog I thought perhaps I could reach out to a few folks and let them know how wonderful these dogs are. The things I've seen not just my dogs do for me...but what they can do for so many others, the young, the old and the in-between. When I write that the CEO of Canine Assistants is an angel walking, I mean it. She understands completely 'paying things forward'. The concept of Canine Assistants is that: one person at a time. One dog at a time. Go to her website. Read. And be amazed.

This time of the year we are supposed to stop and take stock of our blessings. I know mine. A fantastic husband, a dog who is a golden shadow to my feet and the light in every day. Friends and family who love me as I am. My cup runneth over.

One year...

355K of you are out there, reading, passing things along, laughing with Frax, and falling

in love with him just as Bill and I have, falling in love with the concept of bonded teams, a dog raised in love, who's silken head nestles gently on my hip as I write you tonight....

God Bless the Helper Dogs!

Thank you for coming back, for being there constantly, ticking away, for caring. Here's to another year!

Love,

LV, JT & FX

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