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Memories of Noel Barkley
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Noel Barkley June 2011 -- 28 Feb 2024 My beautiful little doodle Noel Barkley with the thick, white curls. You were like a little lamb. You were blind and deaf with a very bad heart condition. Someone abandoned you on a highway in Alabama. No one wanted you because of your handicaps. We adopted you in June 2021 from a group in PA near King of Prussia. They estimated you to be about 10 years of age. Charlotte and Fred took the trip out to PA to meet you---and we brought you back home to New York. You were an independent little soul. You didn't like to be held but before you got so sick, you knew me by my scent---and you used to "bomb me" (I called it) by burrowing into me head first whenever I bent down to pet you. Whatever trauma you went through never left you. I know this because you walked around in circles for hours all the time, only stopping to eat and sleep. Often you bumped your head into walls by accident or knocked the end cover off the radiator in the hallway. I tried to give you comfort, love, good food and a warm bed but it was never enough to stop your pacing. You were a complete foodie. You loved to eat. Mealtimes and treats seemed to be the only thing that gave you any pleasure. I will never forget the time that I left the refrigerator door open and when I turned around, there you were on your hind legs with your head peering into the refrigerator to investigate the food there. You loved pizza bones. A few months ago you developed a sore on your head that would not heal, your coughing got much worse and you steadily lost a lot of weight. I tried so hard to love you back to health, feed you well, take care of you and give you your medication. I'm sorry, little man, that I could not make you well. I lost you early this morning, Wednesday, 28 Feb 2024. It was a grey, rainy foggy morning over the mountain as I made my last trip with you in the car to VCAH...just you & me...before I had to go into work. I cried on the way to VCAH, knowing you would not be home with me tonight. My heart is broken seeing your empty play pen. Run in the sunshine again, my little angel. Let the wind blow your beautiful thick, white curls. I know you can see and hear again. And the food and treats are plentiful in Heaven. I will love you forever. This is who I named you after: |
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