[Dailydrool] Fred Bankston, Five Years Later.

[Susan Woodward]

Dear James..

I so know the pain of losing your heart dog. When I lost my heart dog,
Microwave it took me over a year to even consider getting another dog.
Microwave was a cocka-cocka-poo with so much personality. One Saturday I saw
where the basset rescue folks were having an adoption event and went to just
"check the bassets out". Never owned a basset hound before, I thought I was
safe. Ha!!! One look into those eyes and I was so hooked. There is just
nothing like basset hound love. Remember: you are never replacing Fred but
by adopting Belle you are helping to fill the void his passing left. In time
she will be your heart dog too!!!

 

Love and lots of drool to you,

Susan and 6 critters

 

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From: James Bankston [mailto:jsbankston at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 6:26 AM
To: dailydrool at lists.dailydrool.org
Subject: [Dailydrool] Fred Bankston, Five Years Later.

 


Today, October 30th, marks five years since my sweet baby Fred left me. It's
been a long, hard, miserable struggle. There was the year-long nervous
breakdown, followed by two-and-a-half years of treatment and three years of
therapy--which for the most part didn't help much. My personal, financial,
and professional situation is almost exactly what it was five years ago, if
not worse. My emotional/psychological state--well, that's on and off, but
still not very good.

There is one bright spot--Belle--the sweet, silly, goofy, spoiled, gorgeous
Basset lady I took into my heart and life eighteen months ago, who turned my
apartment from a tomb and back into a home again. Belle is the one thing
that gets me out of bed each day, that makes me think the last five years
haven't been a complete loss. She's been doing an excellent job filling
those Basset-sized holes that were in my life. I can't believe I went over
three years without any Basset love, but it took me a long time to decide to
commit to a new Basset. 

I'm certainly not over Fred, but at least the pain of his loss isn't quite
so raw now as it was--thanks to Belle.

 

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