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Hello my name is Daisy,  I am a service dog and I need your help. I caught a disease called MRSA. It is like the human version but it happens on dogs too and it is very hard to fight off and heal from.

 Maggie is my human. I take care of Maggie. I love Maggie with every bone in my body. I am not just feeling bad in my body, but my heart hurts because I can’t be with her until I am well. Maggie and my friend Kimmy brought me to Auburn University Veterinary Hospital.

My Maggie has been very sick the past two and a half years. I’ve spent many days and nights in the people hospital sleeping on the bed next to Maggie being careful not to get tangled in her IVs. Our friends and family would come to take me outside to go potty cause Maggie was too sick to even stand up on some days. I wish Maggie could come and stay with me and sleep with me at this dog hospital, but my DR. keeps me in a place called isolation. She says it is best for me and the other dogs she is helping, but it is lonely.

I was really scared when we arrived and the nurses loaded me onto a big bed on wheels and took me from the car to inside the hospital. I remember Maggie watching them take me. I could see in her eyes and feel in her heart …. It felt like a very heavy rock. I think we both wondered at that moment if we would ever see each other again. We have never been apart and this is very hard on us both.

I was scared and hurting all over. Why couldn’t Maggie come be with me like I go with her when she is in the hospital? The nurses took me back to my own room in isolation. I don’t understand why I have to be alone here, but they are treating me nice. I have made a new friend called Emily. She will be a Dr someday. She brings me special cuisine she made for me, and she got me a radio for my room so I can hear people talk and not feel so lonely. I look forward to seeing Emily but I miss my Maggie and worry about her. I wonder why I can’t see her. Emily was telling me she couldn’t cause I was sick and contagious and that was why the Dr. and nurses wear these white space suits. I guess in a way it’s like a hotel for animals. I get a hot tub whirlpool bath with stuff in it for my infection every day. I am scared of water, and the whirlpool is too deep for me so they got me a floatie and Emily got me a pool noodle to keep my head above the water. I still don’t like water but Emily has made it not as scary.

I hope this gives you an idea of what is happening and why I need help. They said I needed more time here to get my infection under control. My friend Kimmy is typing for me cause my toes are big and they hurt.  She is going to share pics of me . Some when I had hair before I got sick, some while I am sick, but the best of them are me with Maggie working on our ministry we call “Love Will Light the Way Ministry”    . I even got ordained with Maggie last year. It really feels good to be with her. I want to get well again so Maggie and I can be together and help others. I truly worry about her being without me. My lives purpose has been being her service dog. I want to get well and get back to helping Maggie to help others.  But to do this I need help. I do not have any health insurance and my bill here is pretty high already. I still need more treatments and testing and it will take more money.  I don’t know how much that is in dog bones but I’m sure it’s more than I have!!

I just want to get well and go home. I wouldn’t beg because I was taught it is bad manners to beg, but I really NEED help to get me well and home to my Maggie. She is my life, my reason for being, and she is MY ministry. I take care of her. Could you help me?

 Please?

Love to all,

Daisy