A merry band of angels
When my friend’s daughter was dying of a brain tumor and she was overwhelmed and asked me how she was going to get through it, I told her a band of angels will help you to the other side. And so they appeared – one by one, in droves, groups – her inlaws moved in, her parents backed up the other kids, her friends spent the night at the hospital holding her daughter and then came to hold her as she died at home. How do you get through these types of challenges in life – with a little help from your friends and even people you don’t know yet – so let’s just call them angels, despite the sappy sound of that nickname.
When we discovered Wolfie on the side of the road and were preparing our home for a baby but found out Wolfie needed a lot of TLC plus some months of heart worm treatment, we were a little overwhelmed – but in swooped a merry band of dog angels with options. Right now, we are caring for Wolfie in our home, while she is being treated by Lakeside Vet and Toby both working under the auspices of the German Shepherd rescue organization. Toby has rescued over 500 Shepherds!
NOW this morning, we woke up and talked about what our next step is with adopting a child – we’re both UBER ready but right now disheartened. Then I came upstairs and saw an email from a woman who read my blog about Wolfie and responded, and then who read my blog about our failed adoption and points us in a potential new direction. She was an “unadoptable” child and the organization she referred us to is the one founded by the man who started Wendy’s, R. David Thomas.
When I was a young woman, I wrote R. David Thomas because I was fascinated at how he opened a fast food burger joint against competitors like Burger King and McDonald’s. I asked him, what made you do it? He responded with a thoughtful letter that even his wife thought he was crazy, but it was what he wanted to do. After years of covering media, I have never come across a marketer the likes of R. David Thomas, who was the face of Wendy’s and whose charm and smile were sorely missed when he passed.
Who knows where this journey is going to lead. An attorney specializing in international adoption left us with this thought, “I know this for sure, if you want a child, you are going to find one.”