Hello loves, I've been away for a while but I'm back now... Must've received @zdoggmd 's bat signal, because I too am going through (yet another!) dying. I've been catching up on content and listening to Z's description of how physical it can be is deeply resonant.
Currently my Mum (Mom) is dying of metastasised cervical cancer over in the UK while I am in Australia. I visited her last year, but won't be present with her for this. Although I am also fully present for this. I guess all that is really guaranteed in the physical world is life, death & rebirth/regeneration.
I've got this vague sense of a life-after, as we both die at the same time...
On the path I've had so many deaths.. Now I feel like I can ride the waves a bit more easily. Bobbing on whatever tide is present that day, allowing myself to surrender to wherever the current is taking me.
Here is a picture of my doggo in the sea at my local beach on a sundrenched day last week.
Love to you all
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Fun captioned vertical version of our recent YouTube Live conversation, with no ads, here for Locals fam!
Axe throwing is SURPRISINGLY therapeutic for that recently discovered repressed anger.
10/10, would recommend.
Today's interview with legendary vaccine researcher Paul Offit. Video version coming shortly!
🐾 Another patient admitted to The Dog's hospital. I swear this dog was a nurse in a past life - and she was THE GREATEST NURSE! 🤣
Nursing Shift Handover
Outgoing Nurse: Flash, RN (Border Collie)
Patient: Gerald, Lamb, Day 7 of life
FLASH: Right. Gerald. One-week-old male lamb. Here's your handover, try to keep up.
Personal care completed at 14:00 — full bed bath, skin integrity intact. I also performed an unauthorised facial hygiene intervention with my tongue. It was instinctive. I stand by it. Gerald's expression was neutral-to-positive.
Nutrition: bottle feed administered at 15:30, full volume taken, no issues. He did headbutt the bottle once but I've documented that as enthusiastic oral engagement.
Mobility: patient is now ambulatory. Four-limb weight-bearing achieved. Gait is — look, the word "gait" is generous, but he's upright and moving, which is the goal.
Elimination: bowels open, output noted and charted. Urinalysis — well. He did it on my paw. Colour was satisfactory. I ...
