Orbit's Answer

Yesterday while I was getting ready to go or doing something, I don't remember what it was, but I caught my sweet Orbit just standing there, very alert and he was staring at me and it was very intently.

I looked back at him and I was thinking how beautiful he's looking, his coat is shiny, his eyes are bight, and his spirit is light.

But there is no getting over the fact that in the terms of his life on this planet, he is getting old by all standards.

So every time I have one of those special moments with Orbit where we're lookin' eye to eye, I commit them to memory, because I know that soon my four legged loyal best friend will no longer be with me, a sad reality, but a fact of the cycle of life and the way things just are.

As I continued to look into his eyes as we were staring at each other, I took that opportunity to ask Orbit a few questions;

"Orbit when you die and leave this earth will you come back to me somehow tell me your doin' okay? And will you come back and tell me what its like on the other side? And will you promise to do it?

We looked at each other for quite a long moment after I asked him those questions...

Eventually the spell of that moment was broken and we once again began to as usual move through our day

Last night I had the strangest dream.

Dreams being dreams, I have no idea where I was or how it could happen or even why it was happening;

The phone rings, I don't know what phone or where, but I do know it's my aunt Patty;

In the dream I know that my aunt Patty is no longer with us, and that she's just recently died, and for some reason I just know she's calling me from another place.

First of all I hear a big sigh of relief ....."ahhh", and she goes on to say that "I feel so much better" and I could tell from the sound of her voice that the physical discomfort from the MS that she has endured for 25 hard years, was no longer a part of her and that sigh was a signal to me that she was free from the heavy burden of her earthly body.

She then went on to tell me that the "other side is a beautiful place and that it's a good place to be, and not to worry for her"

The dream ended with me gazing up to the night sky looking at images of what looked exactly like illuminated cut out paper dolls. There was Patty, holding hands with other people, and following them was a trail of happy dogs and cats carving a trial into the night sky as they made their journey upwards towards the heavens.

Such a vivid dream.

Last night my my sweet Orbit, my trusted friend, who always wants to make sure that I'm doin' okay, that I'm not sad or worried, and that I'm always happy, made sure I got those answers to the questions I had earlier asked him.

I think it was Orbit who gave me that dream so as not to worry, and he did it while sleeping quite soundly and contently at my side, he did it just to make sure I don't ever worry about him;

Because he hates to see me sad.

Thank you Sweet Orbit.