I must confess, the time I spent in Dallas with Lou’s family felt an awful lot like a vacation!  Between minor moments of awful with Lou’s health, there were decadent meals, trips to the movies (with popcorn and candy!), and lots and lots of laughter. Lou’s sister is a great friend, and she is thoughtful […]

Dona and I needed to keep busy the day Lou left for his surgery.  Neither one of us felt good about Lou being on his own, and getting the news that Lou had landed in Minneapolis, and was in a cab on the way to the medical center, didn’t seem to help all that much.  […]

When I entered Lou’s hospital room early the next morning, Lou was pacing around in the tiny space, and he looked just like a caged beast.  I’d never seen this version of Lou out in the open — it was so unusual to see Lou as anything but an amiable Golden Retriever when he was […]