Last night Cassidee and I were given an awesome opportunity to help a friend's puppy as he passed.
Puffy (or Puff of Honey as was his full name) was my friend Kim's dog. She's had him for about 17 years. So Puffer was old, getting weaker, but he still had many good days. Sometimes we had to carry him down the stairs when we let hm out for a pee, but other times he would jump down like a deer jumps through the forest.
Last night Kim called me and said that she was taking Puffy to the vet because he'd had a very bad seizure. He'd had a couple of small ones over the course of the couple years I had known him, but nothing like the one he had yesterday. The veterinarian checked him out, weighed him and sent him home with a few possible diagnoses and instructions that if he loses more weight (he only weighed 9 lbs) or has another seizure, Kim was to take him in to be put down.
I went to Kim's shortly after that to see Puffer and just be with Kim as she was very upset. She's had Puffer for a very long time. During the visit, Puffy had another seizure and I was able to do some energy work on him to keep him comfortable and calm him as well as do some hands on healing which seemed to have lessened the severity of the seizure. I also did some hands on after the seizure to keep him comfy and not so scared.
Puffy stayed very close to me for the rest of the night, though it was clear that his time was drawing near. So I phoned Cassidee to come over in case she wanted to say good bye to Puffy before he had to go.
On our walk back to Kim's house I told Cass that she could use her energy hands and her Love with Puffy if she saw that he was feeling bad. When Cass and I walked in the door, Puffy was just lying on the couch half sleeping, half awake. I asked Cassidee if she wanted to go sit with Puffy and pet him and say good bye. Kim replied "You're going to have to go to him, because there's no way he'll be able to coem to you." No sooner was this said than Puffer hopped up and off the sofa he was on, hopped over to Cassidee's couch and hopped up onto her lap! It was so cute and unexpected -- everyone got a good chuckle.
Puffy stayed with Cassidee until we left late late that night and seemed to be very comfortable with her. She fell asleep with her arms around him and her hands on him and they even synchronized their breathing. A couple of times when Puffer got up to go pee, he'd wander the house afterwards, seemingly a little confused and uncomfortable. But as soon as he was back with Cassidee he calmed right down and was able to rest.
Kim and her sister were quite perplexed by his need to be with Cass, thinking maybe that he was remembering when they were Cassidee's age. That may be so as well, but Cass and I shared a wink and a smile because we knew that what we were doing was helping Puffer be more comfortable.
I'm very proud of Cassidee. For all the times she rolls her eyes at me when we talk about things of this nature I know that she really does understand and she does believe that we have the power with our love and our energy to help and to heal when we need to.
