Two Requests

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As the title up there says, two requests today. The first is the obvious one. We've had zero shares from our YouCaring page since Thursday, and we need them. I'm beyond exhausted (basically continuously awake for the past 37 hours straight, and very little sleep even before that; more about that in a moment), so I'm going to be really blunt here: Please don't bother liking or sharing my Facebook links to this post or the fundraising site. It does essentially nothing. What we NEED is for people to do as I've requested consistently from the beginning: share via the widgets (or by cutting and pasting the link) on the page itself, and by grabbing the widget code and copying it over. I realize people mean well with the FB likes, but everyone's seen it, and it doesn't show anything but a link to this post, so please don't bother from this point forward. Yes, I'm cranky; I don't have words to describe my health right now. [Well, actually, I do, but no one wants to hear them). Here's that widget, and you don't need to be on FB or Twitter to use it; you can post it anywhere. PLEASE use it:

Now, the second thing, which has to do with my boy up there at the top, and also why I'm getting no sleep. 

I hate Easter. There are lots of reasons for that, mostly associational, but for the last three years straight, I've hated it because every single one of those three years, Griffin has gotten sick. Yes, I realize how unlikely that sounds, given that Easter falls on a different weekend every year, but it's a fact. I thought maybe we'd escaped it this year, since I did not wind up spending the night of Good Friday in the doggy ER, as I did in both 2014 and 2015. No such luck. This time, it's not his CVS, for the most part, but a gastric issue. Still, I'm up around the clock working on him, letting him in and out, chasing him down outside in 10-degree weather at four o'clock this morning, etc., etc. I'm out of energy, mental and physical resources, and patience for much else. So please, whatever good vibes ya got, send 'em Grif's way. He's in great health otherwise, and at 15 and a half, we want to keep him that way.

Thanks. Now I'll leave everybody alone while I get evening chores done and then probably go pass out.

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