Weimaraner Troupe Travels to Trauma Centers to Provide Education and Entertainment.

Hi Martha,

This poignant story to become an excerpt within my book, "Professor in the Sky with Diamonds," is about Dr. Stephen Caldwell, Professor's long time veterinarian who saw her through ear cleanings to end stage cancer care.

Dr. Caldwell, pictured here with a tribute from "Professor" presented by myself and Professor's puppy Spencer, sits within his own need for care at Braintree Rehabilitation Center in Massachusetts.

Caldwell, a renowned animal doctor who whelped President Bush's puppies from his dog Millie (you might remember the book, Millie's Book), literally fell victim to a new life moments after the Fourth of July, 2001.

He and I were to meet that morning to discuss honoring another animal in Professor's memory. Instead, his secretary's voice rang my line and said, "Steve fell down his stairs at home and is being air lifted to Boston."

For the next year he and I spent many visits together reminiscing through a coma he was not supposed to come out of, then through throat swabbing and neck suctioning and mental rehabilitation. Today he is walking and acting as consult to National Cancer Society for Animals among the many other things in his life.

Steve suffered from male anorexia for many years after leaving Washington for Massachusetts. As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of his fall, he was too weak from the disease to finish. He instead collapsed backwards down the stairs to be smack- shattered with a fractured neck. The hard marble floor had become his life's pivot.

Steve and I had always spoken of miracles. He and Professor's other doctors often marveled at her life with cancer as a gift not to be questioned .We recalled the many news stories about her headlined "Miracle Dog". Little did Steve know that a crash to his home's floor as he was near death from anorexia, then within death through coma, would be his journey to a life of health and wellness.

Steve's brain trauma left him without memory of anorexic desire. Now at 192 pounds, Dr. Caldwell is a man remade. When I call him for animal consult and hear that the Collie needs antioxidant Q-10, I say thank you to an old Friend of Professor's, . . in the Sky with Diamonds.

Remembering Paw Paw For You Today,

Professor's Mom

In Memory of Professor Zimbabweeps, Her Family, The Top Dog Ambassadors,
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