This is Fruitycake. I bet that you never thought I would have so much fur that I would turn into a sheep. 

But here we are. I’m in that Italy place, by the way.

Are some things impossible? Perhaps. I don’t think I can turn into a cat today,  because I’m already a sheep. 

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But most things can be done. It just takes patience and time. 

I have had allergies since I was born. When I was on the streets as a stray dog, I was on concrete a lot. And the vet persons think that I didn’t build up enough resistance to things like grass and stuff. So when I got older, and I started going camping with the persons, my health got worse. And it took years for us to get to this spot.

Allergy shots and tests and medicine. Special diets and no diets and nothing worked.  But for now, we found a good diet and medicine. Will this sheep phase last forever? We don’t know. 

But we keep working at it. Because even when you reach a goal, you can’t just sit back and expect for it to always be that way. 

It’s definitely easy for my persons to give up right now on a lot of things like the house and our paperwork and well, everything.

But progress is not going to happen overnight. It’s going to take a lot of little wins to make up the ending goal. And even when the house is fixed, just like the path, it will always have to be maintained. 

I can’t say that we are comfortable right now. I can’t say we aren’t nervous for what the future may bring.

But one day and one little bit of progress each day. It will all add up. Just like all the fur I grew back.

I may have almost lost it all, but it made for a beautiful reminder that even when that happens, beauty can grow again. 

–Fruitycake 

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