I remember the day like it was yesterday. It’s strange how things can change just like that. It’s strange how one day you can have everything and lose it all the next. Sometimes it seems strange how we must learn lessons. Everyone always says that you’ll learn from the experience and you’ll get over it, but it still hurts to think about it. It was a normal day like any other. I was about to take my dog for a walk. She was a beautiful dog. Her fur was a light brown with stripes running throughout it. Everyone said she looked like a tiger. I loved that dog so much. I got the leash and jingled it for her to come. “Rebecca! Let’s go for a walk!” I yelled at her. She came her tail wagging enthusiastically. I smiled and clipped the leash on her. I brought my cell phone along because I had planned on calling my friend. We headed out of the house and started down the street. I called my friend and we started talking about everything. We were walking along way just so I could talk to my friend longer. We walked all the way down to the Brennen shopping center. I had made this walk many times before so it wasn’t new to me, or to the dog. We walked around the shopping center looking at some of the shops. “I should have brought my money to buy a drink or something, I’m so stupid” I said into the phone. I walked around to where the Jersey Mikes was and someone came out. He asked me some questions about my dog. Then he offered to get some water for her. “No I think she’ll be ok” I said looking at the dog. Little did I know she wouldn’t. We started to walk back to my house. I was still talking with my friend. She was playing me some of her music that she liked. I sang along to some of the songs. “Hang on, I’m gonna call my mom and see if she can pick me up I don’t want to walk home.” I said not really wanting to walk all the way back home. I called and talked to my mom. As I was talking to her I noticed that my dog was lying down every second she could, that was something that had never happened before. “Mom, Rebecca’s acting funny” I said into the receiver, but she had hung up before she heard it. She wasn’t going to pick me up. Rebecca and I started back to the house. She was walking slowly, not her usual trot. She was acting funny. I called my friend back and told her my dog was acting funny. We came to the street I lived on and my dad pulled up. “You’re a life savor!” I said opening the door to let Rebecca in and hopped in. We drove back home and my dad noticed that Rebecca was breathing fast. There was drool dropping out of her mouth. She was walking with a about-to-fall-over step. She collapsed on the floor and I didn’t know what was going on. We gave her some water but she refused it. My dad called the vet and I sat with her, I stroked her soft fur. She was very hot and wasn’t seeming to cool down. We gave her water in her mouth and put cool water on her. My dad called the vet and said she may have heat stroke. We took her outside and hosed her down. We took her inside and lay her on a towel over a cool vent. We put a bag of ice on her to cool her down. Her temperature began to cool down and we thought she was getting better. The vet called back and I told him Rebecca was doing much better. We kept an eye on her and took the ice off. She seemed to be doing much better. She got up to move to a more comfortable position and had diarrhea. That was when we started getting nervous. My parents took her to the vet. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen. I was scared and worried about her. My parents would call and let me know the news on Rebecca. They told me to get in bed because they were staying there with Rebecca. I went to bed and stayed awake for a while wondering what would happen to my precious dog. Finally sleep came to me and I drifted off into blackness, The door opened and my parents walked in. “Kristina” my mom said through tears. “She’s not going to make it…” my mom was crying. My dad was there too, and my sister. All of them were around me on my bed. I lay there stiff petrified at how this changed things. A few tears trickled out of my eyes but I wasn’t crying. I was emotionless about the whole thing. The site of all the sadness in the room horrified me. I couldn’t believe that this had happened all because I took her for a walk. It all happened so fast. One moment I had something and the next I had lost it. It’s strange how things can change. It’s strange how things can go from being great to being terrible. Things can happen so fast and change your life. It’s all about making decisions that could change your life.