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Help Me Keep My Wonderful Dog

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You're probably wondering why my dog is so special that i want to try to keep her so badly, well let me tell you why. My dog Emily is a beautiful fuzzball of a Pomeranian, she came into our lives 4 yrs ago after we found our other dog dead in the back yard and has shown us tremendous love through the dark times. You see, my family and I have gone through a lot of rough times. When i was  really young about 3 or 4 my mom contracted lyme disease from a tick. Lyme is controversal and she's had a tough time getting proper physicians and meds. For a year i watched my mom eat and sleep in horrible pain on an old futon  being helped only by my father to go to the bathroom. Even now she's in severe pain and I have to take care of her while my dad works, hearing her scream in pain is difficult at times, that's when i hold Emily or sometimes giver her to my mom for comfort. Later when i was seven i contracted lyme disease as well, my mother now with chronic lyme and fibromyalgia because of the tick  could no longer work. My dad is killing himself working two jobs to support us, he barely sleeps and he  hurt his arm at work when he got it  caught in a machine, had to get surgery , and although he still gets pains in his arm he continues to work hard for our family . Both of them brought me to doctor after doctor in New England  to get a correct diagnosis ( 4tests had to be done) and I was finally diagnosed with Lyme myself, after so many doctors called my parents nuts, crazy for thinking I had Lyme also. Many Lyme doctors don't take insurance so it became very expensive. . Until finally they found a doctor in Connecticut who gave me proper treatment and medicine (I'm still taking meds and in pain), helping me fight the lyme in me. The downside was that the costs were expensive, he didn't take insurance, we had to use credit cards to pay for the visits (first visit alone was over $700.00 and 300 and up for following visits, but they said I was worth it) and the debt stacked up around us. We also have two 15 yr old   vehicles that take turns breaking down and  added to the debt on the cards. My mothers family always treated her horribly because they favored her brothers and we've even severed all ties with them now because it is to stressful to deal with them. It's always been me, my Mom, and my Dad against the world. In school i had no "true" friends. it got worse in middle school which is when bullying started for me. People would hit me and fight me on the bus, sometimes id be alright, sometimes not, they'd swear, tell me i was a mistake, and that i should do the world a favor and kill myself. The school didnt want to help because alot of the accussed bullies were the top snobs of the school, if you dont have money in my town or school your worth nothing. At the end of the year dance in middle school i finally thought it would end, but no, i was slammed into a wall in the courtyard when i wasnt looking behind me and beaten and bloodied. I called my parents and ran out of the school with blood and tears streaming down my face as a crowd gathered to watch the "show". We went to the police and later the court system to file an assault and battery charge which only ended in a restraining order and a slap on the wrist. We asked the superintendant (who has been replaced) for help, he sent one of his aids out and said to go to the school and deal with it, even though the school did nothing. I was in a dark place for a long time, i shut everything out (except for Emily we had just gotten her and she was my light in the dark), in high school the bullying picked up again this time not only students but a teacher bullied me. In the start of my junior year i was bullied because of my lyme after comforting a fellow student about her struggle with lyme. Then i was  threatened again by a bully that he would put me in a coma cause i told a girl he liked to stop bullying me, later in the year he said the same thing and that this time added he'd  bury me. We went to court again, the school refused to help again, and the principal (who already was moving to another school job somewhere) refused and tried to say i was bullying the bully and not the other way around. Another round of court, another restraining order, another slap on the wrist, and more money that has put my family in a sea of debt. Recently we had to scrap one of our vehicles because it was unfixable. But during all this pain from highschool , i had someone besides my parents who was always there for me, who would be there for me to cuddle and brighten up my day. That someone was my dog Emily, i love this dog with all my heart and soul and so does my parents. Whenever I had a bad day this dog was next to me, licking my ear, laying with me on the couch, always by my side through the worst somehow knowing i needed her. Unfortunatly we have just learned we are going to lose our home, my dad is taking a job in Nevada  and  we have to sell almost everything we own to move. My parents already don't know how they'll pay for this move but we're hoping that my mom won't just be living a life where she's just existing, because of the way the weather affects her and her lyme/fibromyalgia. We're hoping the warmer climate and dry heat will help her. This means we'll have to give up my dog because we can't afford to live in apartment that allows dogs because of high deposits and my heart is breaking knowing I'll have to give up my devoted friend Emily. She's the best dog in the world, she's my best friend no matter what and me and my family cant bare to lose her. She's been with us through the tough times and is the best dog you could ever have. Please help me keep her, we also need money to move and somehow get a used car that will be able to make the long trip. My life is on hold right now I'm 18yrs old with no drivers license because my parents can't afford the lessons and I want to go to college but not sure how I'll be able to at this point. The most important thing for me right now is being able to keep my dog. If you have a dog you know how much love they can bring a person, help mine continue to do that for me and family. Everytime I look at her tears come to my eyes and I can see my parents tear up also just the thought of not bringing her on this very scarey new chapter in our lives is unbearable. I want to be able to keep her and help my parents who have always had my back. My parents taught me that material things aren't what matter in this life it's family and having one anothers back. Please help me save my dog and help my parents, thank you.

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Peter Alves Jr.
Organizer
Somerset, MA

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