Military Life

So last night I was laying on the couch reading and my dogs were barking and chasing each other.  This is a daily routine several times a day.  My living room is pretty large so its a pretty good dog lap track!  haahaa  Saydee my black weenie dog was done playing and jumped up to lay down behind my knees as she always does.  I felt her shaking and thought she was scratching, I told her to stop, it didn’t, so I sat up and she fell over violently shaking, I got her on the floor and was screaming for Emily to get the phone book while I layed hands on her and prayed for God to stop the sezure.  I have never been more scared in my life.  Emily had Kris on the house phone and she was hyperventalating and crying trying to tell him what happened.  I found the emergency vet and got the directions and off we went in the pouring rain.  She couldnt walk and had lost her bodily functions.  Saydee couldn’t focus and was searching for my voice, her black eyes were so dialated, and even blacker than normal.  The vet took her right back and she was settling down by then.  They did her blood work to make sure her organs were functioning correctly and they were.  Thank God!  So they told me she had it because she was so worked up playing and not to be alarmed next time it happens.  They told me what to do and gave me valiums to keep on hand to give them to her once the sezure is over.  So she slept great last night.  She is better this morning.  This dog is like mine and Kris’s baby since we couldn’t have one together.  She really is spoiled and is like a child to us.  What a scare……….

Well most of you know by now that when Kris went to get orders to base PMO that he already had orders in the system for Recruiting Duty and was told to be expecting them any time in March.  Well, he had no clue about any of this.  The company that he was attached to when he was in Iraq last time, failed to communicate that information down to him and another Marine that this happened too.  We have gone thru the shock and denial phase.  Now we are pretty much just biding our time and waiting.  His current boss is trying to get those recruiting orders pushed back until the 10 month Afghan deployment is over.  Which they leave in May.  Recruting orders, we are okay with.  We are going to try and get in at one of the main hubs in Florida like -  Tallahassee (that is what we really want), Jacksonville, Orlando, or Miami.  Its just that up rooting the kids is what we are not looking forward to.  Especially Zack since he is in high school.  Not to mention we are right in the middle of this adoption in the state of North Carolina and are awaiting our home study with Family and Children Services.  Once that study is done the adoption is complete.  Most of you know Michael agreed to everything as long as we didn’t peg him for back child support.  So this is what’s going on with us. Its been very stressful, the not knowing.  But as always God has the big picture and us in HIS hands and home is where ever Kris is.  We just dont want him deploying again!!!!  This house is so empty with him gone.  Every one please keep us in your prayers right now.