I took Loca as planned to have lunch with mom and picked up burgers at Lee’s on the way. My goal: to go spend time with her and not judge and to let Loca be my healing lab partner.<\/p>\n
I found her with another black eye. She had fallen again and now had another black eye on the other side and a twisted ankle.<\/p>\n
She said she wouldn’t use the walker because she was going to get better, so she didn’t need it.<\/p>\n
Om Om Om – my thought bubble chanted.<\/p>\n
We sat on the sofa and Loca came close to beg for food and mom said, “Loca! When did you become such a beggar?”<\/p>\n
And I said when people started feeding her human food that makes her turn up her nose to dog food. She’s not a dumb dog.<\/p>\n
I got up to look for a napkin in the kitchen, mom called out to me in a sing songy voice, “I think I’m in love.”<\/p>\n
“With whom pray tell?” I asked.<\/p>\n
She giggled and said, “Obama.”<\/p>\n
When I sat back down on the sofa, I said, “Stand in line.”<\/p>\n
Loca was sitting straight as an arrow right by me waiting for an ort. I said, “Loca looks like Obama.”<\/p>\n
Mom fell backwards on the sofa belly laughing.<\/p>\n
“But she does,” I said, “she’s beautiful and sleek and black and looks like she could be Obama dog.”<\/p>\n
If you om enough times do you know that it spells mom?<\/p>\n
omomomomomomomomomom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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