A beautiful day outside in Colorado. 74°F for a high today under mostly cloudy conditions. A slight breeze accompanied me on my walk today at the ole horseshoe park. I got a good hour long walk in whilst getting paid and days like today make me realize how lucky I am to have what I have.
I am one of the 98% of America. I live by the rules, for the most part, pay my taxes, and officially live the American dream of a house, a great wife, 3 kids, a dog, 3 cars and a boat. Late last year I was reminded of how special life on earth is, my daughter left this world for 5 minutes after a long surgery. She was in excellent hands and was brought back by a team of medical staff. I remember going home the next day and just crying really hard. How close I was to losing my baby girl at the age of almost 5. I walked in the house to find both dogs waiting as usual, ready to go outside and I remember sitting with Cassie and just petting her. You see my baby while back on earth was still in the icu. She was riding a fine line as sick kids tend to do. 9 days later my little girl came home. The first being to welcome her was Cassie. She had to make sure her youngest was alright like a good mama would do. She wouldn't leave the little girls side for a good long while.
Fast forward 4 months. The wife and I were reminiscing about Cassie last night. The wife mentions how Cassie's ailments started soon after we got home, and really surfaced in early January. She wondered aloud if somehow Cassie had arranged a trade, a life for a life, in order for us to keep our little girl here with us, how she had thought about it all day. I looked at her kind of in shock. Without ever speaking of it with anyone, I had earlier, after Cassie's passing, wondered the very same thing! We had called the little girls recovery a miracle, maybe there was more to it! Stranger things have happened.
The picture is the little girl just getting home and Cassie checking on her.
-Chris
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