A LOVE LETTER TO THE TRULY AMAZING MIRACULOUS MO-MO DOG - MOET GROOM

Born 13th October, 2000 – Died 15th April, 2013.   (And I’ve just checked Moet’s pedigree …. She was actually born on the 12th October 2000.   All those years we celebrated her birthday on the wrong day!)

Moet was diagnosed with mast cell tumours, one behind her knee area on her back left leg, and the right last mammary gland area.   She had surgery on 14th June 2006, she was only six years old.   She had further surgery in August 2007, to remove two more mast cell tumours, one on her ventral neck and a bigger one on her right knee, which required a skin flap to reconstruct the skin defect after the tumour was removed.   She had to be restricted from any vigorous activity for some while, quite a task with a dog who lived on a five acre farm, and loved to roam the paddocks and visit the cows.

She made a remarkable recovery, for a dog who we once thought had only six months to live.

On 6th April 2009, my Beloved father died.    On 13th October, my beloved Mother died.  In November 2009, my relationship with World Youth International deteriorated so badly, that both Gerald and I resigned, broken hearted, from an organisation we had devoted our lives to for twenty years.   In May 2010, my brother Ian sent me an email advising me that he and my sister Susan no longer wished to have any communication with me.   Gerald’s sister, Verna, around this time, decided something similar.  I developed a whole in the macula of my left eye, and required immediate surgery.  I was losing so much and was in unbearable grief, and decided to attend a workshop run by Nerida Oberg, a psychologist and spiritual healer in Berry.

Today (10/06/2020), I found something I wrote at that workshop.  On a large sheet of white paper, I have drawn a red heart, and this is written inside it.

“Born 13/10/2000 – died 15th April 2013 -

For Moet, my little golden girl,

Thank you for your love and for knowing me and how to heal me, for your kind and generous heart and for touching the lives and loving so many and teaching them how to open up to love xxxxx

The Truly Amazing Miraculous Mo-Mo Dog xxx

And on the second page:

I have drawn several red hearts.

“Safe now with Mom and Dad!   My Truly Amazing Miraculous Mo-Mo Dog,

The most loving, courageous doggie in the world, and you were mine!  Thank you for protecting me from so much, for knowing me so well and so loyally, for being there when my heart shattered twice with the passing of Dad and Mom, the ending of World Youth international, and relationships with Susan and Ian and Vera – my eyesight, and the long nights alone – after surgery – you were always there, my devoted, understanding companion!

You asked for so little and you generated and gave me and so many others, so so much.

Thank you thank you thank you for being here with me –

My Golden Angel, gratefully, your Mom xxx