When Their Time Comes

 

He's had a series of 'serious' intimate

relationships, but none were permanent

a puzzle to be sure since he personifies

that old British pride in one's sturdy own

as a fine figure of a man with a most sweet

temperament to boot which not only his

mother but others knowing him corroborate.

But he's yet young and time will tell. He is

loyal to a fault, is Scott and gave his heart

to two little dogs. One wasn't enough

when aged five he sought out a companion

for that one and the two have shared his

life ever since. The five-year old is now

fifteen and during those years recurrent

cancer required two surgeries. The third

return is not likely to see another surgery

for there is also the complication of heart

problems. The ten-year-old female looks

quite svelte, she has lost ten pounds and

not until she was diagnosed with liver and

kidney cancer did he know he would soon

be completely alone. Chemotherapy every

three weeks keeps his little girl from pain

and, he says, happy for the time she has

left to him. Companions? Constant, but for

those shifts at the fire hall. Devastation of

course initially, but he has since knowing

them and caring for them resigned himself

to his good fortune even though it appears

to have come to a shuddering halt. They

look at him adoringly and he responds with

all the love and no regret he has in him.