Comments | dj_muse: Things in the Mail.

dj_muse

Things in the Mail.

Jan 30, 2009 12:17

Today I got a beautiful sympathy card from my vet. Not the animal hospital, but the actual vet ( Read more... )

loss, healing, shiva, grief

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monkeypudding January 30 2009, 18:15:42 UTC

That's beautiful. Really. To hear experience that sort of kindness is a gift.

dj_muse January 30 2009, 18:36:07 UTC

I'm lucky to have found a good vet. I remember the first time she called me back so long after hours. She said she wanted to make sure she talked to me before she left so I wouldn't worry.

It's good to have those kindnesses in our lives.

perrilin January 30 2009, 19:47:44 UTC

Vets like that are worth their weight in gold.

dj_muse January 31 2009, 20:53:33 UTC

I've been lucky like that. She's just the one out of like three there that I happened to go to and now I'm sticking with her.

louiserobertson January 30 2009, 21:30:09 UTC

O, that was wonderful of the vet. Her paw print.

lowhumcrush January 30 2009, 22:50:01 UTC

Right?
my heart just locked up when I read that. LOVE.

louiserobertson January 30 2009, 23:22:41 UTC

I got a chill. May it is like having her handwriting or seeing a particular expression in the face you love.

dj_muse January 31 2009, 20:48:34 UTC

It was the definition of bittersweet for me. So very much.

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superperpetuity January 31 2009, 20:16:46 UTC

I'm sorry to hear about Shiva, but I'm glad your vet is one of the good ones. It's also good to hear you loved the paw print so much... we started doing the ink paw prints at my practice and I was convinced that it was trite and that no one really liked them, but I guess I was wrong!

dj_muse January 31 2009, 20:47:30 UTC

I thought of people who get footprints of their babies when they're born and realized I'd never had anything like that for Shiva. It felt good somehow. I'm just one of those people who feels weird about little things like that. It mattered to me.