Thoughts and prayers again please

As many of you know his year has been pretty hard on my family. I am grateful to the thoughts and prayers so far , many thanks. I am asking again for you help. In the last three weeks we have had alot of stuff, to my FIL health failing rapidly, to other family matters I cannot discuss.
To now my dog is ill, and we are considering the hard decision. We have had her since a puppy of 8 weeks in 1996. When our other dog passed at 17 years old, she refused to let another in, claiming her place and her place only. Her and I have been inseperable between DH's deployments and duty station changes. She has heart failure, and at 3 weeks shy of 15 there is nothing they can do for her.

My FIL is ill, he is a WWII vet and a wonderful man. He is like a second father to me. He is now on O2 and been in the hospital 3 times in the last month and a half. We were told his time is short also. I hope they are wrong.

My side of the family has had some very bad luck as of late. I cannot discuss.

Me I still am fearful of layoff like I was last year from my old hospital, when they started calling RNs in stating," Oh so sorry...........". I am hoping my new employer does not pull anything.

I was looking to our upcoming Vegas trip the first time since 2008, now I am wondering if we'll get to even go and if we do, would it be "right".
Hug and thanks for listening.

Wow! Sorry to hear about all of your sorrows!

As for a LV trip, it might be good to take your mind off of all of these bad things for just a little bit of time. It might be good for your sanity!

But I do not envy your position one bit -- especially with the possibly questionable status of your work situation (since you wonder what might happen there)!

You and your family (including the dog) will definitely be in my thoughts and prayers!

RecVPPlayer

My prayers are with you and your family. I know how it is with the hospital, we let over 500 people go last year.
Now with Obamacare we will have to let more go.

Try to stay positive, you have a lot of people thinking and praying for you!

Our prayers are with you. It is indeed difficult to hold up when it seems like so many things are up in the air.
My father is also a WW2 Vet, now ninety years old and I know that every day we enjoy with him is precious.
We also understand that special place a beloved dog can hold in your heart- it is so difficult during the last part of their lives.
Finally- I also work in health care and have a great deal of concern about the profession. Other than writing to our elected officials to reconsider some of what has happened, I try to remain upbeat on behalf of those who depend upon us in the clinical laboratory.
I agree with finding all that is positive to focus on- and we do hope that you plan a trip to Las Vegas soon.

Paul and Sonya from Iowa

Thank you all so much, we had to go tonight and let our beloved Sheba go after close to 15 years. Next month she would have been 15.
Our hearts are broken, Ill try to post a picture if I can get one up somewhere.

FIL is still not great, we found out we need to replace our roof now, and I feel lost.

Im sorry to hear about sheba. You have another angel watching over you.

It always seems when it rains it pours.

Try to stay positive, things will get better

You and yours are in my thoughts! :/

Big hugs for you. I know it sounds trite but our extended and online families can help us more than we will ever know. You and yours will be in my thoughts and prayers.

My daughter and her two boys are struggling in many ways due to divorce and have had to move back into our home. This is not necessarily a bad thing because it is very good for the boys (5 and 8 years old). This last week has been really rough because they lost one of their dogs. The boys went out to ride their bikes and their 3 1/2 year old pug followed them out the door. The neighbor didn't see her and ran her over with the front tire on her car. I don't hold any anger to the neighbor or anything - accidents happen. The hard part is the 8 year old feels responsible but he didn't make sure the door was shut even though it was his brother and not him who went out the door. We belong to the local pug rescue organization and the outpouring of support from them, our vet, and others has been like a big hug wrapped around us.

While I don't want to sound preachy or trivialize things I really do believe that God never gives us more than we can handle. We may not think we can do it but he knows we can.

Prayers!
I'm sure you did the right thing by Sheba. So hard on you but merciful for her.

One day at a time.

Thank you all so much it mean alot. As you know Wed was a week without ou beloved Sheba. Tuesday was a hard day, so I went looking at dogs at our local humane society. I found 2 I fell in love with. I went home and Wed wewent to look at them, one was not available due to being placed on medication. the other a puppy, had no interest in us. We actually saw 2 other dogs. We fell in love with a shepard/Great Pyernse and a full blooded lab. We could not take the big dog allthough we fell in love with her due to our present house size. We picked a 5 month old lab, who was found wandering the streets with a huge gash and was medicatd for 2 months. Her name"Deba", she was named by the rescue folks before we saw her. With a long "e" to sound like Sheba. Funny how things work out.

We love her, but not yet like we did our Sheba. I always tell people, you do not pick the dog the dog picks you. We went looking at 3 other dog, and not one of them were those. I know those dogs will find a loving home. I know our puppy has.