Okay, I'll admit it. I'm a newbie. I started blogging a whopping 9 days ago. I got the idea by reading a very well-written blog a cousin in North Carolina is writing to keep us all posted on his mother's treatment for acute leukemia.
Around the same time cousin Chip started blogging about his mom Lynn, I realized our older dog Samantha - "Sammie" - was really showing her age and probably her cancer. Sammie was 14 and my first dog. She preceded my husband, daughter and other dog in my life. Sammie and I went through a lot together including grad school and a relocation move from my native North Carolina to Texas back in 1998.
Sammie was my first baby. I had to make the heartbreaking decision to have her euthanized three days ago on Day 6 of my blog. I'm still blogging though and it's still helping.
This blog has allowed me to express the running current of ever-changing emotions, questions, concerns, and ultimately acceptances as I experienced them - day or night. I could sit at my computer crying my eyes out because my beloved dog was dying and pour out that pain into the blog (& Facebook updates linking to the blog). It helped. It helped me and it has helped others who knew Sammie or were able to comfort me and perhaps experience additional healing themselves as they remembered their own furry family members who have died.
Blogging has allowed others to reach out from their computers far away and offer words of encouragement and empathy to me. This has kept me from feeling alone in my grief or ridiculous for the depth of my feelings for an animal. I'm not the only one who considers a pet a family member. I have proof. Thanks, Blogger!
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