Hi Everyone!
There has been a lot of changes in my life since I last posted anything! One main reason is we got a new puppy. Noah The Bear Dog Of Bethany has his own facebook page too! Less than a week after we became his family, our vet at Bethany Family Clinic here in Portland, Or. helped us by sending us to the great surgeons at OSU for his life saving heart surgery. How we kept this puppy calm and quite afterwards wasnot easy too! Well, we all chipped in to help!
Kord and his girlfriend, Sophia picked him up from the primary owners and took him to a vet the next day, just to get a full puppy shot and de-worming. Unfortunately that vet told them to take him back, he needed a surgery that in his estimation,they couldn't afford and he would die. They were heartbroken and both had bonded to him already. We got home from visiting our friends and family in Seattle to two crying people and one very sick puppy. I said, "Let's get a second opinion from our regular vet,Dr. Norman."
Dr. Norman thought he may have a type of heart murmur that he could live with but sent us straight to the people who could do the surgery if he needed it anyhow at O.S.U. First you need to have a scan done of the heart. Then he needed the surgery at 2 mo. old. It was successful!!!!! Yay!!!!!! We did several fund raisers to find a way to pay for the $2,048.00 Surgery and tests! We got huge outpouring of support from around the community and as far as the east coast. a friend did a painting of him at the time and actioned it off on the internet! Thanks Deborah Engle Sprage. Our very talented artist and animal lover and friend!
A little over 2 mo. after he had recovered at about 5 mo. old he needed another life saving surgery. Noah , being a puppy chewed on everything. We finally figured out he had eaten the cover off a box spring mattress. It had gotten stuck in his upper intestines and needed surgery to untangle the blockage. It also looked like on the x-ray that he had eaten a wire! This could have torn up his whole intestines from stomach to the very end. so again life saving surgery was in order for Noah now 5 mo. old. So this time we felt it wasn't appropriate to ask for help from the community. But times being what they are we couldn't afford this $1,500.00. I am a stay at home mom of over 23 years, my husband business had closed the year before do to the housing market crash. we already had more bills than we could pay! I was in tears, and at a loss to do anything to help. Until I finally suggested that maybe I could do some paintings for the clinic. The answer was yes! Dr. Norman, knowing what we and this puppy had already gone through and also understanding what a tough time we were having financially was a saint to let me do some painting in trade for the surgery he and his staff did to once again save Noah's life!
The next painting I will post is the one I did for him and his Bethany Family Vet Clinic. They are two golden retrievers one named Cody and the other named Dutch! I am so happy to share with you all that people do care and there is love and hope in this world!
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Hi My art Stop Fans!
I am sad I haven't been able to post any new paintings lately. We like many others had the H1N1 at our house last month. It has been busy with our 3 kids. Kord and Konner are both in college now but somehow that doesn't change a Moms job too much. Kole is still in grade school and I have been the lead volunteer teacher for a kindergarten class who did not have any parents that could do it. I have really enjoyed working with that age. I hope someday to work with some older students but things will happen when they decide to. So that brings me back to what I plan on doing next with my art work. I am thinking of having a big sale and selling all of my originals! There I said it! I currently have most of my artwork hanging everywhere I can in my house! I love looking at them. They are very special to me and each one has its own story and special memory. Some include meeting new friends and other artists. One artist friend of mine (Peggy Chun) taught me to go forward into this scary place were artist are afraid someone won't like our work because being able to pay the mortgage or not is even scarier. She is in heaven now (A.L.S. Lou Gerhrics disease) and we all are still learning from her.
My son Kole took her book, Watercolor cat to share with his 4th grade class just last week. She kept painting as she lost movement in her right then left hands and painted with her teeth! Then after being put on a ventilator for the rest of her life she painted with the computer program ERICA with her eyes! When her eyes couldn't work scientist came to her home and put electrodes on her head and she painted by silently singing in her head or just thinking beautiful thoughts! That painting in the book is one of my favorites! What she has to teach us all about never ever giving up is the best lesson of all! Thank you Peggy Chun. I love you for that and for the love you gave to me the day I met you. I will try to carry on that same love and teach others no matter what age to laugh and love and enjoy the art you make, even if you have mistakes. Some of the biggest mistakes become the best part of some paintings! I hope I can project some of her happiness of art to the world as well. And I hope to share more art with you soon!
I am sad I haven't been able to post any new paintings lately. We like many others had the H1N1 at our house last month. It has been busy with our 3 kids. Kord and Konner are both in college now but somehow that doesn't change a Moms job too much. Kole is still in grade school and I have been the lead volunteer teacher for a kindergarten class who did not have any parents that could do it. I have really enjoyed working with that age. I hope someday to work with some older students but things will happen when they decide to. So that brings me back to what I plan on doing next with my art work. I am thinking of having a big sale and selling all of my originals! There I said it! I currently have most of my artwork hanging everywhere I can in my house! I love looking at them. They are very special to me and each one has its own story and special memory. Some include meeting new friends and other artists. One artist friend of mine (Peggy Chun) taught me to go forward into this scary place were artist are afraid someone won't like our work because being able to pay the mortgage or not is even scarier. She is in heaven now (A.L.S. Lou Gerhrics disease) and we all are still learning from her.
My son Kole took her book, Watercolor cat to share with his 4th grade class just last week. She kept painting as she lost movement in her right then left hands and painted with her teeth! Then after being put on a ventilator for the rest of her life she painted with the computer program ERICA with her eyes! When her eyes couldn't work scientist came to her home and put electrodes on her head and she painted by silently singing in her head or just thinking beautiful thoughts! That painting in the book is one of my favorites! What she has to teach us all about never ever giving up is the best lesson of all! Thank you Peggy Chun. I love you for that and for the love you gave to me the day I met you. I will try to carry on that same love and teach others no matter what age to laugh and love and enjoy the art you make, even if you have mistakes. Some of the biggest mistakes become the best part of some paintings! I hope I can project some of her happiness of art to the world as well. And I hope to share more art with you soon!
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