I'm going blind in my left eye. So far it's temporary. I wake up and can only see white in one eye for about twenty minutes, then it passes. No one knew until I heard a sound, turned to my left and whacked my head. Hard. I'm more careful now.

Sam went mostly blind. Permanently. Well, first she went deaf. At first, no one knew. They just thought she was getting pig headed in her old age. She was twelve, and a lab, like me. When she responded to hand signals, but not words, they figured it out. I don't really know hand signals. I guess I'll be in trouble in five years.

First she went deaf, then she went mostly blind, then she became incontinent (that means she peed all over, and she was deeply embarrassed by it, and they were mad at her. She hadn't done THAT since she was a puppy!) and then she lost her back legs. At first she was just wobbly, then she started to fall over, then she just couldn't walk. I hear it happened in about a week. The vet couldn't do anything but put her to sleep. So he did.

She had had a good life. I have a good life. There's really no point in worrying about it. As the Spanish say, 'what will be, will be.' Living in the moment is easy. Introspection is hard. I think I smell something baked. I wonder if one of the kids dropped a cookie...