Kenny, I've been away from my pc for most of the day so I just got caught up. I'm really sorry to hear that, and I'll definitely send some prayers out to both you & your friend.
I had to take my dog to the vet earlier this week because she was having problems with her eye - I thought it was allergies at first, but when it didn't get better I decided to take her in. Turn out she scratched it on something, so I've been giving her medicine and generally babying her even MORE than usual (which is quite a bit
). She's getting up in age too - she's about 12 now, I believe, but everyone that sees her swears she's still a puppy. She and I have been throught a LOT together. I went through a divorce almost 7 years ago now, and she really helped me through that. Oh, in keeping with the Japanese names her name is Yuna - named her just shortly after FFX came out both because I liked the character AND because I read that the name means "night" in Japanese and since she's a black dog it just seemed fitting.
I'm going to be an absolute disaster when she passes away. :'(
EDIT: In lighter but still sucky news, it seems my MK8 disk is defective.