Kathryn Mayer

Finding Comfort in the Chaos

Ten years of life had been dedicated to a doting dog. He was praised, beloved by many, and spoiled beyond most. I had had him since he was a puppy; given to me with a heart murmur and undeveloped lung. We had been given a warning from the vet that we’d only get two months and yet together we beat the odds. Over time his heart had outgrown the murmur and his lung fully developed. Everyone joked that it was love which healed him but I knew they were right. We completed each other because he found me when I, too, was broken with no spare parts to heal what was missing inside. As the years went on he made whole what did not exist before and taught me how to love while accepting love in return. That was what led to the horrendous sorrow that came the day he died. November 7th of 2019 my world drastically changed and he was gone.