“Casey” Seabrook

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June 12, 2024

Friday Night

Psalm 121:1-8 “I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.”

My Dearest Small Pawsers,

My Husband, Dale and I, will never be able to thank you enough for your e-mails, texts, phone calls and prayers.

Thank you!!!

As you know, Dale was diagnosed last Saturday evening with a large benign brain tumor.

It was discovered when he couldn’t finish a routine bike ride.

I can’t even explain what it’s like to have you all praying for us.

There are just no words!

We have seen miracle after miracle, this past week.

Doctors and nurses asking if they COULD PRAY WITH US. Yes and please!

They were all so optimistic and I guess it’s because they do this surgery every day and sometimes twice a day.

They also knew that Dale was in good physical shape.

So they moved Dale’s surgery up from today to last Wednesday morning.

They got it all and he has no deficits! Zero! Benign! Miracle!

He made this video for you all ONE HOUR AFTER SURGERY.

And the voice you hear on the phone in the background is my Sister Friend of 33 years, Bichon Mom and fellow Small Pawser, Barbe Von Netzer.

Barbe and Randy came up from OKC to be with us for the surgery. Then they took me to a wonderful dinner that evening. Dear dear friends.

And our church family was just wonderful! So many of them came for the surgery and then after the surgery.

Between our church, and thousands of YOU, I have not been alone!

And everything still works! Dale knows me! He remembers that he loves me! Thank you, Jesus!

They are keeping his pain level to a 1 out of 10.

He has a large scar with staples, and yet, he’s still him!

The Doctors and nurses have told us that even though Dale is chronologically 79, he has the heart, lungs and bloodwork of someone MUCH younger.

They took him down for a stress test and he RAN ON THE TREADMILL.

DO YOU THINK THAT I CAN RUN ON A TEADMILL?? NADA NO THANK YOU!

His blood pressure is naturally low. Today it was 105/68.

His heart rate is in the 40’s because he runs and bikes and lifts weights.

And he may actually come home from the hospital tomorrow or Sunday!

Last Saturday morning, everything was normal for us.

Later that night, everything changed.

And YOU were all there!

And our Father God held us in the Palm of His right hand.

He was there with us all of the way.

And Reagan Pressnall, Service Animal Extraordinaire, was also there with his Dad.

Reagan stayed fixed on him. Not moving. Not flinching. Even with the machines and so many people coming and going, he did not move. He did not waiver.

It was as if he was praying for Dale.

It was hard to explain so I took the photo above.

Many thanks to Bonnie Ferguson, our Director of Adoptions for all she has done to take over for Dale and for me this week.

And our Board of Trustees was with us each step of the way.

We are so very blessed.

I love you all.

Our precious, precious Small Paws Family.

You know me so well. And I know you.

Thank you ALL from the bottom of our hearts!!!

All Our Love, Robin and Dale

Late Sunday Night, July 7, 2024

Isaiah 41:10

“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

Dear Small Pawsers,

We have so much to be grateful for.

I’m so very grateful for each one of YOU.

And I’ve always told you, over the past 26 years, that I will praise Him in the valley, the same as I do on the mountain top.

Tonight, my family is going through a valley. The deepest one we’ve ever known.

But you know what? This didn’t take God by surprise.

And He’s right here, holding us in His Right Hand.

Many of you know us. You know Dale and me.

You’ve been to our home.

You’ve met Dale both in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where we live, and in other states at Bichon Bashes.

He’s been my husband for almost 39 years.

He was there are the birth of Small Paws® Rescue back in 1998.

If there hadn’t been a “Dale”, there wouldn’t have been a Small Paws.

Dale has always been athletic. Despite being 79 years old, he has been an avid cyclist for 35 years.

Saturday afternoon he announced he was “going on a bike ride.”

The temperatures had cooled down here, and off he went.

Soon, it seemed like a lot of time had gone by and I was beginning to get concerned.

I was just about to call me him when he came out to the back porch.

He came up behind me and I heard him there. I asked him if he had a good ride?

He told me “No. I’m having a lung issue. I’m not breathing right.”

On the way to the ER he told me that he was about 5 miles out on the bike when his neck started hurting and no matter how hard he breathed, he wasn’t getting air.

Someone had picked he and his bike up and brought him home.

I called one of our dearest friends from our church, and asked her to please get this sent out through our prayer chains.

The first God Thing that happened was that the ER Doc made the call to get a head and lung CT.

They got us right back. We waited for 3 hours.

Dale told me to go home and feed the dogs and let them out. He was back to acting normal and was going to be going for tests. It was safe for me to go. He thought he would be coming home with me.

While I was gone, he was in the head CT and they didn’t go any further. They said they “found something.”

Back in his tiny ER room, the doctors were in the middle of telling Dale that he had a benign brain tumor and it’s large.

And he needed to be moved by ambulance to another hospital, where they have a Neuro Surgeon who specializes in removing brain “meningiomas.”

That’s when the second God Thing happened.

One of our Pastors from church, Brian White, walked into Dale’s ER room.

The reason this was significant, is that Brian had this exact same sort of brain tumor, a meningioma, 8 years ago, and he had it removed at the same hospital where they were sending Dale.

I got back in the room and Dale told me he had a brain tumor.

I was in shock, and then I broke down sobbing. I asked Brian not to leave us and he stayed until 1:30 in the morning, until we were checked in to the Adult ICU at the other hospital.

Brian’s tumor was the size of a golf ball.

Dale’s is unbelievably huge. It’s 7 Centimeters large.

The Neurological Surgeon told Dale today that since he’s in such good shape, and has nothing else wrong with him, and he has a good quality of life, this thing has to come out.

Wednesday, they will do an Angiogram in the Cath Lab to cut of the blood supply to the tumor.

Friday morning, as far as we know, they’re going in after it.

Today he had a Neuro CT and a Brain MRI.

They haven’t talked to us yet about what they learned.

I want to show you something so very personal, and yet, because I’ve always felt like we are family, I wanted to show you a quick video I took of Dale tonight.

He’s holding Reagan the Great, my Service Animal who can detect blood pressure spikes, both high and low..

I wanted to take a video of Dale and I talking to each other, in case he doesn’t remember me right away after surgery.

This is Dale and Your’s Truly. He’s the love of my life.

Please pray for Dale and for me. For the Doctors and nurses and for everyone who touches him during this time.

We also have some new dogs in rescue.

This is one of them. A Beeshey-poo we’ve named “Smudge”. He came from a shelter near Chicago and he’s coughing.

He has snaggle teeth that hang up on everything. They have to come out.

I won’t be able to raise money for these dogs like normal this week, but if you want to help us to help them while I’m away from the computer, see above for directions.

Our dog-sitters are here at the house while I’m up at the hospital so I won’t have to be running back and forth.

I love you all. Thank you for praying for my Husband.

All My Love, Robin

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