Jordan Leigh Ann

This is our puppy. Jordan is about 12 years old now and here is her story.

Jeff and I had been dating for about a year when he had decided to adopt a dog. We found Jordan at Operation Kindness oon August 25, 2001 and when we saw her we just had to have her. They didn't know her exact age but they thought she was about 4 or 5. So we took her home and on that day a new bond had been formed.

Since then, we have celebrated her birthday on August 25th because that was the day we brought her home.

So she has been so happy with us and we have have so happy to have her.

Well, about 3 weeks ago Jordan started coughing constantly. All night, all day just non stop. We took her to the vet and she found a mass in her mouth that she was very concerned with. We talked about removing it but we needed to have xrays done to see if there were anymore masses or tumors internally. We left with some doggy hydricodne (sp) to supress her cough while we scrammbled to fund the funds to cover all of this.
A few days later, she had the xrays done and they revealed a 'collasped trachea' which we also found out that is teminal.
Please keep us in your hearts because we have always known that this day will come when she will not be around but for us it will be just way too soon.

Love you all!

Week 7...

Jeff is now 7 weeks unemployed and this was my 1st week at Spirit Halloween. I have heard everything from 'you working at Spirit is a major inconvenience to us (Jeff) to 'if I get this job you're quitting Spirit'.
Me working there started as just for a great Christmas but now it's more to buy groceries. I have worked about 70 hours this week and only seeing Cole for a total of maybe 1 hour a day. I'm ok with this. He is bonding with his Daddy and I like working there.
I don't like the negative attitude that I get because I work the extras hours. I hear things like 'are you working there to get away from me (Jeff)?' I feel that SOMETIMES. Is that bad? Am I a bad wife and/or mother? I don't think so. I wish I knew.