One dog, Six Puppies and One Broken Hip, OMG!

Oh boy, its way past time for an update!  October 5^th and the Autumn Feast seemed like something that occurred months ago! 

At home, things are running along as usual, nothing new or exciting to report from my little clan.  At Mom’s house, though, it’s quite another story.  A little white fluffy dog was found by her friends Stan and Arlene, walking in the street and obviously very pregnant.  There were no tags, nothing to identify the sweet thing.  So they took her to my mom who has a heart of gold when it comes to animals.  Of course she took her in, because that’s the natural thing for Mom to do.  After a week of posting signs and advertising for the owners, Mom declared the mama dog her own and named her after her husband who passed just a few months ago.  Johnny is now the proud mother of six (count ‘em, SIX!) puppies!  The amount of work involved in caring for a new mama and six puppies is amazing.  But Mom threw herself into it and I truly believe that God sent Johnny to help her work through the loss of her husband.  Johnny and her puppies are so famous in Mom’s community that they had their pictures published in the local community paper.  How cool is it to be at the pancake breakfast, have a friend come up and start talking about “the lady who adopted the pregnant dog who had six puppies” and get to say, “that lady is me… I’m the lady!”?  It happened!  It really did!

Unfortunately, good times didn’t hold and another misfortune has come into Mom’s life.  Almost two weeks ago, she tripped over a speed bump in a parking lot and fell, breaking her hip.  She really did a number on it, the doctors were saying it was a very bad break.  They did a total hip replacement the next day and she’s just about to be released from rehab.  I’ll be spending some time staying with her, to help her continue her rehab and get to the point where she can live alone again.  The physical therapist said today that the healing time on a hip replacement is 6 months to a year.  Holy cow, a year!  I only anticipate staying with mom anywhere from a few days to a couple weeks, tops.  The 6 months to a year refers to complete healing.

So even though the news isn’t about me or my little clan, that’s the news I have to report.