Category: The Blog
14Apr13 update: My best birthday, ever
A continuing series of updates for donors to Shayna’s Health Fund, and our friends and family. See the last update here. Introduction Today is my birthday. According to medical science, Shayna should not be here to celebrate it with me. Yet as the pics and videos contained in this update show better than any [...]
09Apr13: A day in the life with Shayna
The sunset today really illuminated Shayna’s emerging copper undercoat… (had to pay special for that, wasn’t included in the original factory equipment!), so I decided to take some pics:
07Apr13: Celebrating the 11th anniversary of our adoption at the CASPCA
As I describe in my upcoming book, April 7, 2002 was the happiest day of my life. For that was the day that after a long, long search, I finally found the “right” first dog for me – at the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA (CASPCA). From 2003-2009 or so, every April 7 I brought a cake and [...]
March 2013: Our visits to the Senior Center
In February 2013, I contacted the nearby Senior Center, to express my interest in bringing Shayna for some visits, because she seems to have a real knack for putting smiles on older folks’ faces. As noted in my upcoming book, and elsewhere on this blog, I’ve seen this over and over again – she can [...]
Shayna and “Katie Bug”
One recent warm afternoon, Shayna and I were sitting on the patio at Panera, when along came an acquaintance of ours and her niece, Katie, who’s all of three years old. Katie (nickname: “Katie Bug”) and Shayna instantly fell in love, and is just as sweet as you can see in these pictures. She brought [...]
12Mar13: “Celebrating 4 months plus 1, 2, 3, 4…”
Summary: Shayna is doing amazingly well. We are very, very fortunate, especially for those who’ve donated to Shayna’s Health Fund, which helps enable me to continue providing her with the array of medicines and supplements that, so far, are keeping her in such amazing health. Previously: See our February 8 update, which contains a detailed [...]
20Feb13: Day trip to UVa; glowing Shayna
As I describe on this site and elsewhere, the University of Virginia, and particularly the Rotunda, is one of my and Shayna’s favorite places to visit. For me, it’s where my spiritual journey to rebuild my life after 9/11 began – and to ask for help to find the “right” first dog for me. For [...]
08Feb13 Update on Shayna: Great news!!!
It gives me great pleasure to report some really great news, to Shayna’s friends and donors to her Health Fund! On Monday, February 4, we had our long-awaited follow-up exam and ultrasound with our wonderful holistic veterinarian, Dr. Janice Raab. Aside from evaluating Shayna’s overall health, the key question was whether the tumor on her heart (hemangiosarcoma) [...]
24Jan13: “Sidelight Shayna”
Several of the people who are closest to us have commented about how Shayna seems to “glow,” physically and spiritually. But trying to photograph a black dog can be tricky, even if she does glow. The other night, however, the lamp on the end table happened to be positioned perfectly to catch her physical glow [...]
19Jan13 – Toy training at Albemarle High School
It was a relatively warm day today (low 50s), so we did our after-lunch toy retrieval training at Albemarle High School. I comment in the video that she’s gotta be one of the smartest females I’ve ever met – which I guess either (a) means that she’s as brilliant as I think, or (b) doesn’t [...]
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