Life is a huge bag full of surprises

Today is my birthday. I have 14 years of life. I think that if I could live again, it would be a Bubu, without a doubt.  Maybe I would be a little bit less sick sick, but certainly I  would enjoy every second,  and I would eat every carrot as the last one on the planet; I would leave messages everywhere and smelt everything other doggys write on grass.

Here is me in my backpack with dad & Champy

 My great grandmom said that when you die, your spirit walks at every place that you've been, and no doubt mine will be occupied during long time!. My last trip was unforgettable!, we went to visit Lake Superior, which lies between the United States and Canada. I had already visited it once, but now Champy was with me to enjoy twice as much its beauty and majesty.

It's so big that if you close your eyes and forget for a second where you are, you would think it’s the ocean, although no smells of salt.

Dad began to plan this trip several weeks in advance. He revised maps and gave us directions to all of us. We should be careful packing, because my personal pharmacy could of course, not be missing, but when he said that we could take our toys, we knew it would be something extraordinary.

Mom started putting everything into the suitcases three days before.  Dad and mom had designed a list together and they edited it occasionally, so they could be sure we were not going to need any thing. A night before, they let everything ready for next morning,  so our only one work was to have breakfast and jump into the car.

When we were ready to embark on the journey, mom returned to our house to make sure that we did not forgot something and luckily she saw Piggy, waiting to go with us. Mom  took it and gave it to me, I could not travel without it!

Here we are walking

During the trip, dad opened the windows of the car and I could not be more happy when I felt the wind stirring my ears!  the feeling is like when mom turns on the fan during a hot day!, the breeze was so nice that I fell asleep, until our next stop.

Of course, it is always pleasant to stretch our paws and dad as the ship's captain, planned the trip so well that the entire crew could feel that pleasure. At each stop there were new scents, and we could empty the bladder in territory never before explored, so I left many messages saying "Bubu was here"

At some point during our journey, dad put  me on my backback and care for Champy, while mom took photos. We found butterflies and we could smell the Lake Superior, but it was only for a moment, because our a next stop had more water. People from many places stop there to see waterfalls that are filled with beauty and make everyone take pictures.

Hence we arrive at that for a few days was our refuge. It was a bit cold and at night it was very dark, but at the same time, revealed with special distinction the stars and moon greeted us with a special smile. Mom and dad could not help but jump to the balcony with their cameras.

Champy went out with my parents to take photos. He told me that the waves beat and if he was distracted, some tried to touch him. While they enjoyed going and coming, I stayed with Piggy to watching television, although I don't know that moment my eyes were closed and only opened when I felt the excitement of everyone, when they returned from their photographic journey.

Of course, Piggy and I also enjoy Lake, and no doubt it remembered of me, because had already visited it before. Although this time it was very cold so that my feet did not touch it, I think that the Lake sent me a small kiss, because for a second I felt water on my belly.

 During our returning trip, we found a pink elephant and no doubt, it reads a lot because it requires huge glasses. When we saw it, of course we introduce ourselves and we took a picture of it, because we do not always have the opportunity to find a pink elephant on our road.

Several days later, we went back home and today we are celebrating my birthday with carrot cake (sugar free) and tamales, because great things must be celebrated with flavor!

 I am sure that when I decide to leave myparents and my brother, my spirit will have  a lot of work walking around, because I have enjoyed every one of my days in this world.

Never stop your smile and be happy!

Stories in the silence

Silence tells stories sometimes and sometimes stories become silences, but in the middle of everything, as John Lennon said: life is what happens while you're busy doing other things.

Summer has not been what we expected, we have had a lot of cool and rainy days, but we always get energy taking care of our flowers. This year we were very fortunate with the sunflowers, they grew so much that dad said they were trees!

Between all the fun of summer, I have courage to go out walking every day in the morning and have breakfast. I feel very hungry sometimes!. Mom check my ears to see how many chocolates I ate when she was not seeing me and depending of the number on a little screen, she gives me more or less insulin. That gives me right to eat a cookie, carrots, and all that I ask her.

When I'm not sleeping, we love to be outside watering our flowers, cleaning them, or taking pictures form butterflies, birds or flowers. Mom says that we should enjoy and keep memories of them, because we must wait several months to see them again. 

She has some experiments with plants, since she wants to understand the influence of the environment on the development. She has had success making pineapples, apples, and other rare flowers. She plants things in sites with low-light or water, and then change them from place. I think that is very fun, waiting to see if a seed can become a real plant!. 

When the sun is just kissing the afternoon, we like to go for a walk to stretch our legs, we really need it after a hard day!. If mom is not studying, reading or doing exams, we can walk longer. We know how much difficult are her exams depending on how long she wants to walk in the evening. She says her head spins sometimes!!, I guess is like when you have your astronaut training!!. Dad let me play with gravity sometimes and it’s so fun!. So if we walk a lot ,  it means mom had an exam about proteins or neurons.

Every afternoon she says: ask me what I learned today!!!!.  She does not expect the question sometimes and begins to talk about weird things, I think that I understand maybe a half. For example, she studied proteins and at the beginning she said that they were like one big family, but then she said that all of them were very promiscuous.

When I asked dad what that word means, he told me that they were like rabbits, so I can say that proteins loves carrots, so I hope not to find proteins because I will not share my carrots with them.

I still get fluids from my back every other day. That is not fun, but so far, I'm still well. Doctors say that there is no chance to heal my kidney, but as my mom say, we should always give forward, and I do my best.

It is time for dinner, so here I say goodbye.

Lake Michigan

Our trip was really an adventure. I love travelling in Dad’s car because he rolls down the windows so I can feel a soft breeze on my face. Before arriving at our destination, we stopped to take pictures of a lighthouse. Lighthouses are towers, building or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and used as a navigation aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways, marking dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs or safe entries to harbors. 

 

During this trip, we visited three lighthouses, because Lake Michigan is so great that it looks like a sea. In this part of the world there are a group of five lakes between the border of The United States and Canada, which form the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world. They cover a total of 244 160 km² and irrigate an area of 521 830 km².

Lake Michigan is the largest lake entirely within a country, and this time my legs felt it. Past year, we had another trip

and I could enjoy Lake Superior, which lies on the border with Canada.

After the first photos, we arrived at our destination, but no one was ready to rest. As soon as I finished my dinner and I was filled with water, we had recognition trip. I could smell new things!, for example, there were more chipmunks

there that at home, and mom told me that there were many frogs singing during night, she said it was like a symphony with a monumental choir.

They sing so beautifully, that there is a sculpture that honors them, so that all will come to listen to during the night. frogs rest during the day of their long musical evenings.

When we got back, mom and dad came out to enjoy the

sunset. Mom said that there were many mosquitoes everywhere, but that was not going to scare us, adventures are not complete if you do not suffer a little.

 We took a longer trip next morning. I travel in my bag that mom or dad carry carefully. That makes my job as an assistant very pleasant! I can smell the best places; seek the shade so that the sun

doesn’t burn our skin, but the best moment is when I get out of my bag.

Of course, we toured around the Lake, and my feet touched a little bit its water, not much because I tend to be very chilly. We picked up rocks and took many photos. Of course we could see flowers, snakes, waves and a lot of sunshine.

Here we are, daddy and I in action!

When we were not outside taking pictures, mom and dad took me to our room to feed me, give me insulin and fluids. Mom and dad care for me so much, so my job is to take care of them and enjoy every moment. My favorites are our endless talks in the car. Sometimes about science, plants or cars, and others, we make plans for the future.

We got back home a day before, but dad was very tired. Champy was not at home!, he was still having fun with her new friend. So when he arrived, we began to share our experiences and we stayed talking until late. When we found out, mom had our dinner ready!

We already have plans for our next trip, so I remind mom to have ready her camera, because the adventures can be here any day. In addition, I care for Piggy who is always my faithful friend she accompanies me to all our trips and she takes care of me when I sleep.

Daddy and I searching the best angle

Meanwhile, I am obeying what mom tells me. I eat everything she gives me without protest, so I can do everything I want and enjoy the summer. I love so much lying on the grass that I have not written with enough frequency and I apologize for it. It is not just the pleasure that sunny days gives us, but mom has been busy learning new things, and she spend hours marveling at me with all the

things she learns. Sometimes she doesn’t wait our question about what she learned during the day, she begins to explain us!

Thanks to all of you who take a moment to say hello or send me a message. I have no way of thanking each and every one, except saying thanks for reading my stories.

I promise a new adventure soon!

With love: 

Bubu

Trip

My mom asked to Champy what toys he wanted to have with him while we are out of town. Instead, nobody asked me, my bag only has syringes, fluids, insulin and more needles.

I will go with mom and dad to an adventure. Champy will stay with his pet sitter, so he will have a lot of fun. I will be photography assistant, so Champy is giving me all kind of advices and I hope to remember everything to do a great job.

I still remember few details because I used to do this work, but I guess when you can see is easy to find the perfect place, the most gorgeous light and specially try to see the background to be sure our photos are the best, but mom says I can see through the eyes of my soul, so I am sure we will do it great.

Now I must run to prepare everything, I am sure this will be a memorable adventure!!!

Tulips

I very much regret the silence that I have created, but in the last few weeks I've been enjoying the spring. I waited for it with so much emotion for a long time, now I  love to lie on the grass during hours to smell life.

When we began to walk it was like a birthday gift, after so many days of closure, is a pleasure to go out running, barking and smelling again the messages from our old friends. It is gratifying that the harsh winter did not hurt anyone and all of us are still struggling to continue enjoying our experiences.

Every day is a new opportunity to follow beside my parents and Champy. They measure my glucose levels after each meal,  give me insulin and in addition they give me fluids, which have made a really good work mantaining my kidney. So far I have not had to go to the doctor, who basically said there is nothing to do by me.

All this adds a good dose of carrots, crackers, moments of joy in the garden, while mom  takes care of our flowers, afternoon walks and many belly massages which solve any discomfort that I can have during the day.

After the first flowers loomed shy, spring painted colorful gardens with tulips. At home the tulips tinged red and contrasted with the green of the grass. Dad bought them in the autumn and we planted them. The bag said they were huge, but we did not believed it.

So we had a big surprise when they painted in  red front yards and yellow and orange in back gardens. Neighbors were happy to admire our tulips and congratulate ourselves for all the work we put in to make them grow.

There were also photographic trips to mom and Champy, who embarked on when light is how she likes to. Sometimes I accompany them on trips of recognition to choose the perfect places that show the world the beauty of our bit of space, because we want to get the taste of living.

Thanks to all those who regularly ask about my health. I'm fine, enduring all the syringes and putting a good smile to everything, my greatest gift is going out to take care of the flowers and sit down  on the grass... that motivates me to finish all my food every day!!!

Eat and run

Ssshhhtttt, do not tell mom that you have seen me. I'm hiding from her. I do not want to eat but I can not play with her about or say that I don't want this or that, so when she  found me, she has the right to put a bite of food in my mouth and I must eat it with no complaints, but first she has to find me.

The truth is that I don't know why my stomach refuses to eat. Doctor and mom have no more hypothesis about my condition. My kidney is damaged but I don’t have all the symptoms. I can't be depressed because I was taking an antidepressant that was supposed would make me eat. Long ago they gave me that same pill and it needed less than a week before mom had to retire from  food, but this time it didn't work. Simply  I don't want to eat.

Occasionally, I run fast enough so mom  can not reach me so I well hide under her desk, but Champy says that she has eyes and ears everywhere, maybe she can listen to my breath, and when I less expect it, she opens my mouth to me and gives me another bite...

At times with a little effort I put  a bite into my mouth and I chew it, but sometimes with the same enthusiasm, I just... spit it... oops, It dropped!.

Mom tries everything she knows I like, for example, I like my food at room temperature, and please, don’t re heat it in the microwave!, I don’t like that...

Once I finish my food, I must let them stab my ears to find chocolates it is the way they check my glucose and this is very important since I can not regulate my glucose levels, one day I have them up an dthe next day they are down. If I receive too much insulin, that can cause me hypoglycemia, which is very dangerous for my brain, but if they do not give me enough, my kidney works harder, so nobody takes any risk, I must eat no matter how high or low I have glucose. Everyone also says that I should get strong, because the spring is already here!

I started feeling the change of the temperature, we went out to walk today and for the first time, we enjoy our walk for more than 2 minutes, sometimes I can go without sweater!, so I have no complaints, it was worth all the care and letting the numbers decide what to do with me. My life at the moment is tied to numbers and projections. 

I should run again, mom says that we should not eat front  the computer... but don't tell her that you found me, please and if she asks you tell her that it was worth reading my story.

10 reasons to love my sister

In recent days mom and dad have been very concerned about Bubu, sometimes they go out with her for several hours and when they return, mom puts new pills in the drawer where we have all our medications. Some days ago, they begun to put  her fluids daily, with a huge needle. Mom says  we must do all this to make her feel better.

 

Bubu says this will give us more time to have more adventures together, I don’t know why but she never complains, although sometimes mom has to put pills up to 5 times in her mouth, because no matter what, Bubu has not lost her humor. Even she let them to stab her ears to measure her glucose levels. Although we have already tried to confuse mom and I try to put my ear, but everybody says this doesn’t work that way…

Even if I have no memories of my first brothers, surely they  used to fight with me for food and they jumping on me and I believe it, because I am so scary all the time, but instead, Bubu has always a snack for me,  this is only one reason why I want to tell her how much she means to me:

10: She selected me as chief of missions, that position is given to the bravest and I feel very lucky with this assignation.

9: She let me take a bath with her!, this is not only convenient to save time and water, but makes me feel that everything will be ok!,  even I let mom washing my ears if Bubu is with me. 

8: She named official of exploration, this means I must looking  for places with grass during winter, I walk on the snow to measure the density of the same, and analyze if it will withstand the weight of mom and Bubu together. It is a difficult task but for me is a great pleasure, except when I sink into the snow, because it implies that I must start again searching for a safe route.

7: She let me eat what she doesn't want. She doesn’t feel upset, or says: this is mine!. 

6: She doesn’t mind if I run around the house chasing my toys and stumble with her, but mom reminds me to be careful because I can hurt her.

5: She never laughs at me when mom puts me her sweater by mistake.

4: She doesn't care who looks better in the photos, she always puts her best smile!.

3: She assigned me the task of waking mom up every day so we can go out walk or to fulfill missions on time, and I have never failed her!.

2: She shared me her passion for carrots!

1: When she saw me by very firt time, though she had met other dogs, when I smelled her, she let me be part of her family, and I have kept my word to always take care. 

This is why she will always be my sister whom I love so much and this is why I ask her so deeply to take all her pills and accept all the needles, because I want she can be with me for many years more…