Re: Kathe In CA and animals

January 17, 2005

Hi Kathe in CA, this is Nan in Michigan, and if I didn't have my animals to keep

me doing, there are some days I wouldn't want to go on. I have RA and I also

have other things on the top of which and which one of the worst things is

bipolar disorder. It is by far the worst. You can do exercises to help your

muscles and maybe your joints you can take some medications, etc,. Pain pills

or different meds that can halt the disorder for a while.

But the depression (even the meds they give me for it) nothing lifts me up out

of that but unconditional love.

Where do I get it from? My animals. I have rescued a nanday conure and she is

my baby girl (rescued her about 6 years ago ) I also rescued a little

parrolette and had her for the last three years of her life until she died last

summer of old age. I've rescued numerous cats and dogs who I nursed through

many a health emergency and have come to be such sweet members of my family. I

also have a small English game hen in a big cage in my kitchen!! She is

beautiful, I brought her in last fall because all her sisters and brothers were

picked off by a chicken hawk after I had raised them from little poults all

summer and by fall I thought they would be safe enough to put out with the

bigger hens and roosters. When she was the only one left I said OK THAT IS

ENOUGH! Not losing my last girl!!! Now we have our cuddle time watching TV and

she talks to me and she lays me a little egg about an inch and a half big every

day! Then last summer I got Charlie, he looks like a little

Ewok............he is a Brussels Griffon (3/4) and 1/4 toy poodle. He is my

little guy who loves me and my husband so much and unconditionally.

All my life I have had it difficult emotionally, mentally, and physically and I

love every breathing creature great and small, because they have at times given

me purpose and a will to live. I thank God every day that we have our animals

on the earth. Such a blessing they are.

And it's not that I ever worship them, don't get me wrong, they are like a job

for me, or a purpose that God gave me. The bible did say we should care for the

Earth and the things in it. That is something that I think has been taken SO

lightly. Now we are paying for not keeping that instruction from God but that

is another sermon, eh?????

Love you all and thanks Kathe for bringing me a subject I can blah blah blah

about LOL

Nan in Michigan

PS I wish I was in CA It's too cold here and I have to go out and feed my

duckies and chickens but then I get to see and talk to " mama's babies " too! ;-)

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January 17, 2005