2:24am July 10, 2014

➸ Please Help Support Leaf and Nadia!

My great friend Nadia is a strong and beautiful person. She has gotten even stronger with the help of her support animal, a dog baby called Leaf. Please read her story, help her out by contributing or signal boosting. She is unemployed due to mental health issues and has over $6000 in vet bills.

Hello everyone, thank you for taking your time to read my story as it’s very important to me.

This is Leaf:

Named so because the day I brought him home, at 7 weeks of age he ran into the backyard and chased all the leaves that were blowing around and attacked and played until his little heart was content.

Leaf is now 18 months of age. My mother bought him for me to have as an Emotional Support Animal due to my severe mental illnsesses and suicidal temperment. I have Borderline Personality Disorder, Complex PTSD, Bulimia Nervosa, Major Depressive Disorder, and all of the anxiety that comes along with every day tasks and living. The moment Leaf came into my life I was complete. I was whole. I was a mother. I was a friend. I was a companion. We become an entity together. I don’t work without him and he doesn’t work without me. Everywhere I go, he wants to come with me, making sure I am okay. He will wait by the door hoping he gets to come too. Most of the time he does. I’m currently still in the process of having him be a certified service dog for me so he can come with me everywhere, as my anxiety is unbareable should he not be with me.

This dog has been with me every day since I got him. He is my soul mate. I am his. I have a reason to try and face the day every morning I awake. He gets me out of bed. He helps me play. He helps keep my eyes on point, towards a goal, and seeing positively. He keeps me alive. Every breath I take I do so knowing he will be taking one right next to me.

5 nights ago he awoke me yelping in pain, I gently touched his sides and he yelped even more. Leaf will NEVER put on a show or cry unless it’s painful. For the day and a half before that he seemed flat, odd, not himself. He was shaking, and very depressed. We rushed him to the vets at 1 am. He was admitted into the ICU and what has followed has been extreme agony on both sides. X-Rays, ultrasounds, bloodwork, urinalysis, a spinal tap, and this morning he will be receiving an MRI to try and figure something else out. His temperature is up and down, his eyes have become bulged and swollen in both sockets. The vets don’t know yet what is wrong but until we do know we are hoping fora miracle and for the kindness of strangers as the vet costs have exceeded $6000, and I am unemployed due to my mental illnesses. I need funding to help continue his treatment otherwise he might die.

I desperately need your help. I need your help. I need your friends help. I need your neighbours help. Please, please help us.

I cannot imagine a world without my son. I cannot imagine surviving if he doesn’t. I wouldn’t want to.

I am begging you, from one human being to another. ANYTHING you can donate. PLEASE donate. Anything at all you can do please help.
If you can’t donate money please pray for him. If you don’t believe in a God for you, please believe in one for him and pray until you’re out of words, I beg of you.

Leaf is my lifeline, and I am his. Please help us.

Thank you a million times over. Thank you.

We love you.