[Dailydrool] Hi from Beth H. to my whole Daily Drool family -- thanks for being so wonderful

[Hinchliffe at aol.com]

Hi everyone --
 
I just wanted to tell you again (and again and again and  again, if I 
could) how much the protective embrace of your love has comforted  and protected 
me these last few weeks.  You are my family, and I don't know  how I would 
have been able to get through this long, scary, painful journey  without you.
 
I'm sorry I haven't been able to write to each of you yet, to  thank you 
personally for every e-mail, card, note, present, and prayer that you  so 
generously sent my way.  I'm having some trouble  writing -- it will be okay (it 
had better be okay, since I'm a writer!) --  the neurosurgeon says that it 
will just take some time before I can  do it on my own -- so for now a 
friend is helping me put my words down here  in e-mail.  When I can do it myself, 
I'll write more (there will be no  stopping me).
 
I thought you'd all enjoy this story.  I can't get up, so  the visiting 
nurses have set up a bed for me downstairs and I've left my front  door 
unlocked (if neither a brain tumor nor brain surgery can do me in, I'm  hardly 
scared of a home invader) with a note out front saying "can't get up --  please 
just ring the bell and walk in."  So yesterday afternoon I heard a  bell and 
saw a big old dude filling up the whole doorway.  "I'm Joe,  the florist," 
he bellowed, seeming embarrassed to death, then so solicitous when  he saw 
my head.  He placed the flowers just where they were perfect for me  to see 
catching the sun from the window.  And you know who they were  from?  Patti 
Pike and Miss Bella, my Secret Pawtners from last year!   Wasn't that the 
sweetest, most loving thing for them to do?!  (And it gave  a story for Joe to 
tell his buddies.)
 
Another favorite, favorite package I received is an incredible  treasure 
from Karen Muchmore.  She packaged up and sent me ALL of last  year's (2010) 
howliday cards!  She must know me so well, because that is so  exactly what I 
adore and cherish and have spent so much time with.  I have  special 
glasses that are helping the transition from surgery, and they're  perfect for 
focusing in on every glorious big old face.
 
BUT -- I wish I had an answer for my mystery ... just before I  went in the 
hospital, I received an enormous, generous, great fun surprise gift  box 
from ABC Slobber Shoppe!  All it said inside was "Merry Christmas,"  with no 
clue as to who my Secret Santa Paws might be.  I wrote to ABC and  asked for 
any hints, and they won't give me anything, so I have no idea which  loving 
Daily Drool "relative" I can thank!  It was filled with things I  love -- 
including some that came right to the hospital with me, like cozy warm  basset 
sleep socks 
(with the rubber on the bottom so I wouldn't slip as I was  getting used to 
walking again).
 
And another really special story for you -- my favorite item  out of this 
ABC box was something I adored as soon as I lay eyes on it -- a  shiny 
siilvery basset key chain with cute little charms -- a basset, a food  bowl, a 
bone, etc.  You know how sometimes something hits you as absolutely  perfect?  
That was this, for me.  That day when I reported for surgery  I was beyond 
terrified, but I kept the key chain hidden in my hand, the ring  around my 
thumb, holding tight tight tight onto it.  When they came to  wheel me into 
the o.r. (hello, doctors?  it would be really nice if you  KNOCKED OUT YOUR 
PATIENTS before wheeling them in!), they spotted it, and I was  sure they'd 
take it away, but they were so nice, a nurse carefully taped it  inside my 
hospital bracelet, so when I woke up the next day in ICU, there it  was, still 
comforting me.
 
(This is Beth's friend writing now -- it's taken us over an  hour to get 
this much done and she's fallen asleep, so I'm just going to send  this off, I 
have to leave and she was so eager to get it to you today.   From all of 
her "local" friends, thanks to every one of you for everything  you've done 
for her.  We feel like we know a lot of you, and it's wonderful  to see the 
joy your love brings to her.)
 
Love,
Beth H. (Duchess ATB and Blueberry ATB)
 
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