I Love the Rain.

It's pouring. The huge garden umbrella is soaked, and the pup, Shadee is comfortably sleeping under the car. I frantically moved her from the lanai where she still gets wet despite the roof, into the carport when dark clouds started to form. Typhoon Esther is raging. At least there's cold wind to drown the dreary afternoon.

I was up before six this morning and started surfing the net looking for information on natural sources of calcium. This, after I read an article that calcium supplements increased the risks of a heart attack and stroke.

What will the doctors say now about the calcium supplements they've been prescribing all these years?

Another medical article talked about how sleeping less than and more than seven hours a day increased the risks of a heart attack. Now, whatever happened to the medical advice that we need eight hours of sleep?

I am writing about the rain, calcium, sleeping and my dog, Shadee in the same post, because Shadee has completely recovered from her wound and broken leg.

You see, I ran over Shadee when I was backing out of the carport. She was tied to the garden bench and because it was the morning after Typhoon Basyang, she didn't want to get into the wet part of the garden and preferred to stay under the car.

It was too late. The front tire rolled on her and she bled. I was only leaving that morning because a neighbour asked for help to jump start the battery of her car.

I wrapped Shadee in a blanket and dried her wound - on her right hind. Then I broke an antibiotic capsule and poured the medicine directly onto the wound. Then, I gave her milk (calcium) laced with Ibuprofen to ease her pain.

I repeated this procedure for one week. Shadee who had a big appetite soon lost weight because she didn't want to eat.

Then, she started to get better, and started to walk - no, she was limping.

Today, when I unleashed her, I yelled for her to run because the rain was about to fall. And she did. Her right leg has healed and it's strong again.

I am happy.