Sometimes It's Just Not Fair

This is not one of my upbeat posts.  It's just been a real sad beginning of the day.  First, I learned my friend's husband passed away suddenly.  They've been married over 35 years, have three wonderful children (all grown now).  I worked with her for many years back in California.  We shared the same office suite.  When you face someone for 8+ hours a day, you get to know them pretty well, and I know she loved her husband and her family with all her heart and they were the centers of her life.  I just wish I was independently wealthy and could hop plane to be there for her, but a phone call, email, and other remote forms of contact will have to do.  Life is just too short - hug your loved ones and appreciate them.
Blitz's DM is back with a vengeance.  Yeah, it is not a surprise, but for some reason it hit me particularly hard this time.  Guess because he was doing unusually well.  I hadn't begun training him so there was nothing unusual/stressful to bring it back.  This time it's hitting his muscles - his rear and his jaw.  He's eating slower and with more difficulty and today he fell down the stairs.  He's such a bright, happy little guy and after startling after the fall (and me trying to act like it was nothing) just stood right back up, wagged his tail as if to say "now THAT was silly of me!"  I'm sure it's his upbeat attitude that has kept him going this long.
As I've often said Blitz could have been a great Obedience dog, as his temperament, work ethic and love of play could have taken him very far.  Life didn't deal him a fair deck of cards but he doesn't know that and thinks being alive every day is the best present ever! 
All our dogs come into our lives for a reason.  Even on this sad day, Blitz has shown me that as long as we're here we should smile, play, love and make the best of it because really, each day we are here IS the best present ever.
Good boy, Blitz.