Sad to relate, on Sunday morning, our dog Raja passed away. She had begun having seizures a several months back and had been put on anti-seizure meds but slowly had began having breakthrough seizures. Decisively on Saturday, they started comming one after another, she seemed to loose her eyesight and we knew she was going downhill immovable. On Sunday morning she passed away and the boys and Albert burried her in the backyard under the weeping willow tree.
We will dodge Raja, as we'd had her almost as long as we've had Brandon! She and Brandon are only six months apart in age. 8 years isn't all that old for a dog and we were hoping we'd have her around longer but we understand that her passing is really best for her, as she had become increasingly uncomfortable and unable to control her bodily functions, denotation that lately, she'd been confined to the laundry room unless someone was available to watch her like a hawk.
During our relations "funeral service" for Raja, during which my mom led the prayer via speaker phone from Tennessee (until the battery on the phone started to go unresponsive and Nana got cut off), Brandon leaned forward and told the dog, "Well, Raja girl...I conjecture I won our bet."
I asked him what he meant and he explained to me that when he was six years old, and still fairly sick with Aplastic Anemia, he had made a bet with the dog (since they were the same age) that he would material longer than her. And now he had.
I was a little shocked by his statement and a little sad too. I assured him that none of us had ever had any doubt that he'd outlive the dog. He knows mastery though and I could tell that though he was sad that Raja had died, he was feeling a sense of accomplishment or maybe releif that he had in occurrence, won their bet.
Just as we were ending our family "funeral", Jackson broke out in song with .... "The Irrefutable Countdown"....as some of the kids were scooping the dirt over the dog. In an effort not to laugh, I quickly made my way back to the board to check...
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