i’ve been poring through my thousands of photos, looking for the best ones with mollie in them. i guess i shouldn’t wait til i’ve organized all of them to post, because there are just so many.
on tuesday, she went in the car with kevin when he ran errands. he bought a huge, one pound sausage roll someplace and he and she both ate it every time he got back in the car.
when they got home her ears were perked up and we gave her more sausage. then she had a huge seizure, couldn’t walk right, kevin carried her out into the yard and she was drooling and i frantically called the vet. they got ahold of the doctor finally, who said the lymphoma must have gotten to her brain.
she calmed down and went back inside and was lying quietly on the floor. her eyes rapidly twitched every once in a while, which kevin was nystagmus, which happens when people drink too much.
or when the lymphoma gets into your brain.
she kept wanting sausage, so i kept feeding it to her while we waited for the vet to arrive. when i ran out of sausage, i gave her buddig turkey, and her ears perked up, even as the vet was pulling into the driveway.
i’m trying, really, to think about good times, not the horrible sadness of losing her.
here she is, before i knew her, when kevin took her walking to a place she loved, on the way to his parents’ house.
also, didn’t know her yet…i wonder why they put her in this contraption; it’s not like she ever got tired of walking!
here are some photos of the trip we took to virginia in 2010. this is the longest trip we took with her; kevin was going to the fall civil war shooting competion in winchester, VA, and we were gonna camp.
here we are, the one night we stopped. i love it that mollie is eyeing the whiskey, which i’ve clearly had plenty of.
here’s kevin and mollie at this beautiful overlook where we stopped along the way.
kevin bought her a big bag of jerky when we went into a huge sporting-goods store.
well, we intended to camp, but there was some huge, huge storm – maybe hurricane irene? so instead we camped in a great suite at a nice hotel. this was only mollie’s second hotel experience, and she managed it just fine.
i have other photos from that trip, but here she is at our wedding…she walked down the aisle with our brother-in-law, jim.
the morning after – she thoroughly enjoyed cleaning up the wedding cake box. meanwhile, i was shoveling in the cake myself, having accomplished zipping up the dress the day before.
such a good dog.
this is my favorite christmas photo of mollie. the array of cookies, the beer can, the zombie look in her eyes…priceless. you know she wanted to dive headfirst into those cookies.
i took a bunch of photos of mollie and amy and jim’s dogs for calendars i made, and this was the best christmas photo of mollie. she didn’t enjoy it as much as the one with the cookies.
wow, kevin with moustache, one halloween. it might have been our second halloween party.
one more picture for now.
