At 03:05 PM 4/26/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I have had a bad week.
>
>First one of my dogs decided to swallow two rocks which blocked his
>intestine. It was a death or surgery decision. $820 later the dog is
>recovering (death would have been $60 or waiting).
>
>On Wednesday I lost a court case where a guy overcharged me on a repair the
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>car, backed up and forgot that I had the trailer hooked up. I heard it when
>the trailer jackknifed and hit the car. I bent the left rear panel of my

Hi Bjorn,

You do describe a rotten week!  I've had more than a couple of those myself,
and they make for great stories, once enough time has passed that you can
inject some humor.

Like the time i was driving x-country and got rearended, flipping my '53
Ford tation wagon, throwing me out of the car and across the highway into a
telephone pole, causing me to land on my head, sustaining such a gash that I
bled so much that when the ambulances came, they took other victims to the
hospital but me to the morgue, since i appeared to be dead...leading to
surprise all around...

I do empathize, especially with the dog crisis.  I know I would have made
the same decision.  Just hope you can find a way to keep him from ingesting
any more rocks.  that can be a behavior problem that's hard to work with.

It sounds to me like you've created a life with some very positive things in
it, and I hope and expect that you'll get back to enjoying them soon.

Take care,

Gail
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Gail Fitzpatrick
'87 GL Westi, 125k   [Frieda]
Sacramento, CA
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