Bipolar Spirit: Rosie: Getting a Psychiatric Service Dog

Bipolar Spirit: Rosie: Getting a Psychiatric Service Dog: A while ago we came across information about Psychiatric Service Dogs (PSD's). You are probably most used to service dogs such as Seeing E...

Sunday morning...

It has been an amazing vacation and a great last weekend. I have learned how amazing spending time with your children is and I am finally learning not to give a darn about anything outside of my realms. Just enjoying the family. If anyone out there ever looked at someone with a service dog and sad "oh how special, that person is so lucky" well you were right. However I can now attest that Faith has her work cut out for her. Even though Cass is as well trained as they come, he is a lot of constant work for Faith. She is constantly thinking of her new friend and planning everything around his needs also now. It is some amazing to watch but yet even more amazing that an eleven year old can be that responsible. I am so proud of her. We could not get through getting her shots for school on Friday. She had a major panic attack right as the nurse was about to put the needle in her. We had to stop but with Cass' help she was able to calm down in just a matter of maybe twenty seconds. Before it would have been minutes. She went out and played without him yesterday for a couple of hours. It went well, I think he enjoyed the rest. I am going out to the field this week for training. It will be her first time with him and without me. I know she will do great. She takes her new responseability serious and has a great outlook on the upcoming school year and her hidden disability. There is not much more a father could ask for. Kris

Thursday ......

It is amazing how much work Faith and Cass are having to do each day. I have a new found appreciation for service dogs and their owners. We have to constantly review and have goals each day to work on. She is only 11 and her patience are not good anyway, but she is a trooper and pushes through stuff now that she could not before...all for her new best friend Cass. A long lost friend sent me a message today to donate $10. It is so sweet of her. I had to say thank you and like I told her I am not good at asking for things, it is hard as a father knowing that I cannot afford to provide something my child needs. But my ego has never been more important than my kids needs. So it looks like I am going to become a professional fund raiser???  Faith is not going to be the last one to need a dog, so I can go to sleep tonight knowing there is someone out there who could really use some help to get through each day of their lives, and they don't know it but I am going to help them. Thanks everyone and thank you Jennifer!!! Kris

Donation link....

Here is the link to make a donation.

http://fnd.us/c/7FhBb