This is the Biography that is going to be posted on the Little Angels Service Dogs website. Here is the link if you want to check it out:
Faith is a 10 year old from a military family living at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. When her father was stationed there in the summer of 2006 her world was turned upside down when she was unable to go to school. Attacks of unknown origin would overcome her and cause her to lose control and have complete and embarrassing meltdowns in public and at school. She was diagnosed with Mood Disorder, Bipolar disorder, and severe anxiety. She had to be homeschooled for first grade and she started seeing a Doctor and began taking medication and was finally able to go back to school for second and third grade. She was very successful, earning student of the month both years and finishing in the top five of her grade in reading counts, a program to track how many books the students read. She also won the Science Fair in third grade and was able to take her project to the county show. Unfortunately, towards the end of third grade the medications stopped working and she was hospitalized for three weeks. She has since been unable to return to school and is now being homeschooled for fourth grade.
Faith loves to go to school and her inability to attend school is one of the issues that continues to fuel her anxiety. She is so afraid of not being able to control her feelings or herself at school again that she starts having anxiety attacks on the way to school or even in class sometimes. Her Doctor is the person who first recommended a service dog. She said a couple of her patients were able to completely come off of all of their medications once they got a dog. Her parents were unaware that psychiatric service dogs even existed. Faith hopes that when she gets a dog that it will help her return to school and give her the courage, support, and unconditional love she needs to leave her home, her safe haven, and go out into the public like a normal child. She tells us everyday how she cannot wait until she gets her dog.
Prayers for you, sweet Faith!!
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