10 years ago I was in a car accident and had a traumatic bran injury. I was in a coma for 2 weeks, and a rehab hospital place??? for a couple of months. I was in bed at the rehab and one day decided to sign myself out. TheHusbandHalf had to sign some papers too. To be honest, I missed caring for the dogs.
Until that time I spent a lot of time going around the country, sometimes alone, sometimes with THH, and showing/breeding the dogs.
I probably spent maybe $5-10,000 a year
I stopped doing that after the accident, not because of the money but because I didn't feel like I could choose homes for my puppies like I wanted to. I was very fortunate that after the accident, people who had puppies from me before, meaning already checked for suitability, wanted another puppy. They felt a free, young adult, would be fine, so I was able to place many of my young adults with them, as I already knew they were a suitable home. Plus, I already knew the personality of the puppy and cold kind of figure if an adult would fit in well.
This was in 2008, and the financial state of the country was not in a part of my brain that I had time to pay attention to, but it's possible that if I had continued to show and breed, our stache may have dropped. THH never stopped working so our stache grew.
We basically treated our money the same, pay what's due and then decide what to do with whatever's left. In the few years after the accident, all of our 3 kids moved out, so it seems our costs would go down. Not too much, they kind of paid their own way. The rule was, stay as long as you want, but once you move out, try not to move back.
I live in a house I love, with a yard I love, with a man I love, and sort of can find whatever I like to do, here. I remember having to go to some psychologist as a wrap up of how I was doing, and I remember telling him "I've always felt if life changes, just change along with it." Guess I passed whatever test I was taking.
