[Dailydrool] helping to the bridge...

[Marilyn Burns]

Angelika - that was a very accurate accounting about "helping to the Bridge" 
being a loving, giving, peaceful experience...

I had to "go it alone" with Bob Burns on that fateful day - as my husband 
Fred was out of town on business.  Our vet had the room prepared prior to 
our arrival.  The lights were dimmed down.  They inserted the iv shunt in 
his front leg - gave him the sedative and later the final.  I was holding 
him in my arms the entire time - cuddling him - and he just quietly stopped 
breathing.

Doc and the staff left me to spend quiet time with him -- as long as I 
required.  The fact that the entire staff knew and loved him too - made it 
all the more a positive experience.

I must add that the part of the process that had amazed me even more - is 
that in the case of both Sammi Sue (who went to the Bridge on her own a year 
before) and Bob Burns - picking up the ashes a few days later was not the 
traumatic experience that I had expected and was dreading - it was an 
overwhelming sense of peace and closure...

Marilyn - loving Mom of Amanda Lynn and Bridgemates Samantha Sue and Bob 
Burns