Charlie needs some help

Maggie Carruthers came over tonight so that she could do some therapeutic touch on Charlie before he has his surgery and see how he was doing. She could tell that he was quite worried that his life has turned completely upside-down - that it's gone from being a great life where he gets to do lots of stuff and have tons of fun and he is the one who is doing a lot of helping to one where he is the injured one and he's stuck on the living room floor of the place that he lives and he's in constant pain. He doesn't know what's going to happen or when and if the pain is going to stop.

Maggie said that Charlie is a very "heart centred" dog - that he doesn't really think so much in words - but that he thinks with his heart in feelings and that's how he communicates, and he does that very well, and she thought it would be really helpful if I sent out a message to everyone I know to have the same kind of thoughts directed towards Charlie before his surgery, the day of, and after his surgery - because he's worried about it, and so am I - and it actually is going to be a hard time for him because of his age and his health status. Anaesthesia for animals is always a very serious issue and should be considered very carefully.

So Maggie actually wrote something down for me to send out that she sort of "communed with Charlie" over and thought would be really good for us to think about over the next few days if you have any spare time:

Intention for Charlie:

"Look! Look Charlie, Look! Here is the place in the near future where you can return to work, doing what you do best and doing what you love to do. It's not so far away. We speak from our heart, not our head nor mouth. Allow our hearts to support yours, giving you ease of breath, ease from strife, and fear and dismay. Our hearts string together to cradle yours. Soon we will play once more together."

So if you have some time and some care, it would be sincerely appreciated by all of us!

Here are some pictures from the meeting:

This is Charlie showing Maggie where he'd like that piece of rock to go...

Daisy trying to get some of her own therapeutic touch - it was all about Charlie today though.
Maggie asked Buttercup to go lay down in her bed and do you know what Buttercup did? Go lay down in her bed!
But she did stand guard when she needed to.


All Daisy and Charlie can do right now is face wrestle. So sad.
I got a picture of Teddy on my lap. He's not showing that he's worried, but I'm sure he is too.