When
humans have problems they tend to bottle them up and keep them from
with their friends. Something silly about not wanting to be a “burden.”
But us dogs never worry about being “burdens.” It is kind of our
thing. Feed us, walk us, clean up after us, stop us from jumping on
others, making sure we don’t trip you, we are wonderful burdens so when
we have problems we can’t wait to dump them on our friends.
But
what happens when you have to dump and you have nowhere to take a dump.
That is what happened to our friends Reese and Kole two weeks ago.
They
live in the Ozarks but their parents come from Michigan. I don’t know
how that happened. I think their car couldn’t make it through the
mountains so they just decided to live there.
A
few weeks ago Reese’s and Kole’s Uncle Mark got sick. Their Uncle Rob,
who lives with their Dad Jeffrey, had to go back to Michigan to be with
his ill relative. The problem was that air travel is expensive when
you aren’t an angel. They had a stack of bills to pay and something had
to be sacrificed because we live in a recovering economy where,
whenever you pay a bill you have to go into recovery. What had to be
sacrificed was the Internet: Resse’s and Kole’s outlet to their support
network was gone. It not only came at a bad time for family reasons,
but poor Kole, who had been found abandoned in a parking lot by Uncle
Rob earlier this year would be without his beloved best friend when he
returned to Michigan.
When
Uncle Rob went to Michigan to visit Uncle Mark the former collapsed and
tests showed he had a weak heart. There was talk he might need a
pacemaker. Now there were two sick Uncles and no support network except
for a few friends Reese’s and Kole’s Dad could text.
It
was a long week without hearing from our friends, and an eventful one
for them. Uncle Rob was released from the hospital and came home. The
doctors are not sure what is wrong with him, they have lots of different
opinions, but he is home where he belongs and Kole is very happy about
that.
Once
Rob returned the family got their Internet turned back on and Reese and
Kole were all over the web telling their friends that they were safe,
although their Uncles needed prayers.
Uncle
Mark is waiting in the hospital in Michigan for a liver transplant.
Getting a liver transplant is very hard unless you are famous.
Hopefully, because Reese and Kole are famous in the dog world that will
help their Uncles get the medical treatment they need.
