Service Dog waiting for owner!!

Hey there,
I'm Cosima and I'm trying to raise funding to fly to pick up my service dog in Florida, who has been training for me for a long time.

Need 500$ for travel related expenses.

I suffer from severe generalized anxiety disorder and PTSD. I have an honours degree in Criminology that I finished this year and up until this summer was a single parent for the most part. I'm currently on social assistance because I cannot work, and am trying to start my own business so I can make an income while being able to be sensitive to my own needs. Part of this need is a service dog. 

The waiting lists and costs for service dogs in Ontario is astronomical.  (I'm talking 5 000-50 000$) Last year, a generous company called Reaching for the Stars Service Animals from Ocala, Florida offered to train my service dog for me at next to no cost. The time has come to pick Echo up. I need to fly to florida for a week to train with him and learn how to give commands/etc. Being a parent on social assistance means finances are very tight especially this time of year.

Echo will be trained in a variety of tasks to help mitigate my disability, such as finding an exit, water, deep pressure therapy, and self harm interruption (face picking). He is also there to help with my PTSD from a person I shouldn't have ever been involved with to begin with, which is the reason I've changed my name online to make sure we stay hidden. Once my anxiety takes over, depression does as well. Constant circling paranoia and intrusive thoughts don't foster joy, and it becomes hard for me to see the point of continuing.

I've managed to survive through four years of university putting my mental health seriously on the backburner, but I am completely burnt out. I can't work right now, and have lost the few odd jobs I've been able to get. I need time to be able to focus on therapy, which I can't get through without Echo. (Kind of hard to participate when you shut down every time you try to talk about it.)

I am on medication to help deal with the side effects of the anxiety, but my body has built up a tolerance. I've gone from 10mgs to 100mgs in the last year, and I'm only able to go up one more dose before I start to decline fast again. The last time it got bad, I couldn't be alone, I couldn't leave my room and I slept with all the lights on full time. I'm already on Zoloft and Abilify, and after this I'll be back on the med chase game which could take another ten years to find something that works.

Again, absolutely ANYTHING helps get me closer to him. If all you can give is 1$, that's 1$ ahead.