Comment by reneberlin
3 months ago
Get a dog ASAP after recovering and don't look back. Mark my words and send the first pics with the puppy after you recovered elegantly.
Of course you will make it, and if not, you wont care anyway. You'll make it. I'll wait for the pics.
PS: But take that existential eye-opener serious and use it (you might later forget and drift from that in everyday-default-mode). You could print and frame this post to make it unforgetable.
Get a dog. If you can and are willing to look after the dog for 15 years, be willing to train it well in the first 10 months, prepared for cost and vet bills etc. etc. I wouldnt want a puppy when in recovery unless someone else is fully looking after him.
Please don’t get a dog just because you’re having an existential crisis. Dogs are lifelong responsibilities.