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Lucky Dog
By PK | November 12, 2008
Anyone who has pets will really like this. You’ll
like it even if you
don’t and you may even decide you need one!
Mary and her husband Jim had a dog named ‘Lucky.’
Lucky was a real
character. Whenever Mary and Jim had company come for a
weekend visit they
would warn their friends to not leave their luggage open
because Lucky would
help himself to whatever struck his fancy. Inevitably,
someone would forget
and something would come up missing.
Mary or Jim would go to Lucky’s toy box in the basement
and there the
treasure would be, amid all of Lucky’s other favorite
toys. Lucky always
stashed his finds in his toy box and he was very particular
that his toys
stay in the box.
It happened that Mary found out she had breast cancer.
Something told her
she was going to die of this disease . . . in fact, she was
just sure it was fatal.
She scheduled the double mastectomy, fear riding her
shoulders. The night
before she was to go to the hospital she cuddled with
Lucky. A thought
struck her . . . what would happen to Lucky? Although the
three-year-old dog
liked Jim, he was Mary’s dog through and through. If I
die, Lucky will be
abandoned, Mary thought. He won’t understand that I
didn’t want to leave
him. The thought made her sadder than thinking of her own
death.
The double mastectomy was harder on Mary than her doctors
had anticipated on
and Mary was hospitalized for over two weeks. Jim took
Lucky for his evening
walk faithfully, but the little dog just drooped, whining
and
miserable. Finally
the day came for Mary to leave the hospital. When she
arrived home, Mary was
so exhausted she couldn’t even make it up the steps to
her bedroom. Jim made
his wife comfortable on the couch and left her to nap.
Lucky stood watching
Mary but he didn’t come to her when she called. It made
Mary sad but sleep
soon overcame her and she dozed.
When Mary woke for a second she couldn’t understand
what was wrong. She
couldn’t move her head and her body felt heavy and hot.
But panic soon gave
way to laughter when Mary realized the problem. She was
covered, literally
blanketed, with every treasure Lucky owned! While she had
slept, the
sorrowing dog had made trip after trip to the basement
bringing his beloved
mistress all his favorite things in life. He had covered
her with his love.
Mary forgot about dying. Instead she and Lucky began living
again, walking
further and further together every day. It’s been 12
years now and Mary
is still cancer-free. Lucky? He still steals treasures and
stashes them in
his toy box but Mary remains his greatest treasure.
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November 12th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
A ‘treasure’ of a story and we are ‘lucky’ to read it.