It's All Good

We had an experience over the weekend that reminded us about living in the day. It was also a very healing experience. My daughter has a 7 month old puppy who likes to try to escape and if he successfully sneaks out the door his favorite thing to do is run across the street to the park, where he promptly stops and rolls over with his belly in the air thinking, aren't I cute. Well on Thursday afternoon when my daughter went to get the mail he did that very thing only there was a large pickup truck coming down the hill. He is so little, a chihuahua, the truck didn't see him. The front tire of the truck hit him in the jowls and spun him to the curb. I got a phone call at work and met my daughter at the vet.

Now my daughter and I have not been on the best of terms since I got sober. She has had a lot of anger that she hasn't worked through yet, so the fact that she called me was an amazing thing to begin with. I stayed with her while the puppy went into shock and nearly died. Fortunately we live in a town that has one of the best vet teaching hospitals in the country. After they stabilized the puppy at the vet they transferred him to the hospital. He was treated for severe head trauma and responded well to those medications. He pulled through and it looks as though he will be okay.

The whole experience was very healing for my daughter and I. We were able to talk a lot while at the hospital waiting. My sponsor once told me that no matter the situation, "it was all good." That I could find a positive in every situation. At first I saw no positive from this, but in the end I now see the positive came in the healing of our relationship. It is all good.