Here's a video of Lucy and I camping together this summer. We took two solo trips this year and I'm so thankful for that time together. She is one of my dearest companions and such a rock in my life. We are taking her this weekend on a camping trip again - sadly her last one. We just learned recently that she has a very horrible form of blood cancer that has spread. We opted to not do surgery and chemo b/c the prognosis was still grim and we didn't want her last days to be difficult and full of procedures. We want her last days to be like the above; camping and without suffering. This terrible invader of her body has produced a huge mass that is on her spleen and will eventually rupture and producing a death of great suffering. So we will have to give her a compassionate release into the Light very soon, upon our return from camping. It's the most surreal thing to know you are in the last days with one of your best friends of 13 years. You look at her now and you would never know there is anything so terribly wrong with her, she is still so frisky. A great sadness has come over Tony and I, but we are fighting that off to celebrate the great blessing she has been in our lives all these many years and enjoy the time we have NOW with her, celebrating this gift at this moment. All of your thoughts and prayers would be so greatly appreciated. I ask God that we be allowed this weekend with no incident, just this last weekend, allowing her favorite activity and time for all beloved friends to fellowship. Love, love....
