Argo and Divine Connections

Argo vom Windswept
a Deutsch Drahthaar
Before we brought Argo home, months before Argo was even born, my husband and I went to a meeting to learn about this breed. Taking time with due diligence in studying the breed and to make sure this breed was what we wanted.  While at this meeting I had the opportunity to sit next to a very nice man, turns out he was a vet that worked on dogs with bad elbows and hips - mostly labs. He too, was looking into getting a Deutsch Drahthaar, for pretty much all the same reasons we were... and from a vets point of view they are a very healthy dog. Dr. Pauls specialty was microscopic surgery.
We had a nice dinner, talking and enjoying having the entertainment of others at our table. When the evening was done I said it was nice meeting and chatting with him...and I hoped I never had to see him for his vet services. I, however, had that sense of dread, as I firmly believe people meet people for a reason. So, I was hoping that meeting him was for a contact for someone else and their dog. Unfortunately it was not to be, as I got the privilege of meeting up with Dr. Paul in his surgery clinic. Bringing Argo with me. ... Argo had elbow issues that were/are of undetermined origin, and Argo needed surgery and who did I know that could do the surgery? A man I had meet less than a year before over dinner. My family vet would and could not do the surgery, I contacted other vets closer, sure they could do it, but they would slice open his leg to get at the elbow, I was not to interested in that way of taking care of the issue. Hello, Dr. Paul, this is ... we chatted and made the arrangements. Argo went in for his surgery and came out of it happy and healthy. We have seen Dr. Paul and his drahthaar at various events through out the years since.   With the fact that shortly after Argos' surgery Dr. Paul retired, he still has time for Argo out in the field and looks him over with a trained eye and lets us know he is doing fine.
I am always amazed how God puts people in our lives, sometimes even before we need them, to the folks he sends just at the moment we need the person the most. Yep,
God is GOOD, ALL the TIME.
Here is to the angels amongst us, and it could even
be YOU.

* P.S. at the time of this writing Dr.Paul has never worked on another draht with elbow issues, our Argo is his one and only... and nobody knows to this day why Argo had elbow issues, or what caused his to be...  whatever he had did not fall under any of the known Dysplayias ... Argo you are so special