Hi, my name is Freya and I'm just the biggest sweetheart you'll ever meet. I was rescued from Mexico earlier this year by someone who loves me more than anyone else in the world. I'm a bully breed so we play hard and recently, by no fault of my own or my human, I tore my ACL in my left knee just doing dog things. The vet says I need surgery if I want to be able to run and jump again without hurting myself. But my disabled mom was laid off a couple weeks ago and is struggling to pay the rent. Can you help fund my surgery so I can play again?


A note from Olivia-

Hello lovelies! Thanks so much for being here.

 

I’m Olivia, a queer 29 year old human to the above amazing pupper and we are living on unceeded Stz’uminus territory here on Vancouver island. 

 

Some of you know me and some of you don’t but either way you may not know that the last three years have been rather rough for me. 

I have been mildly chronically ill for a long time but it wasn’t overt and was often dismissed when I was growing up (expensive medical care in the US means you don’t go to the doc unless you break a bone- thank goddess for Canada!). Then three years ago shit really hit the fan. With seemingly no explanation I got very ill in September of 2018 resulting in me loosing my amazing and beloved job. I decided it was best for me to be out of the city (Vancouver) because it wasn’t helping my health so I moved to the island-which was a life saver-but have been unable to really hold down a job because of my symptoms since. I now (this year) have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia (a neurological condition similar to epilepsy that makes pain receptors misfire all the time among other not so fun things), endometriosis (an auto immune condition that attacks my reproductive organs and makes it so I’m in constant pain and feel rather crazy-yes even more), a chronic migraine condition (yes more pain wee) and IBS. All of these not only cause pain they cause a lot of dysfunction and make it so, on some days, even getting out of bed is difficult much less humaning fully. I’m not writing this for pity because that never helps anyone but rather so you understand why I’m asking for help and I cant just go out and work a bunch to be able to afford to rehab Freya (trust me I’d much prefer to work 3 jobs for awhile than ask people for money so understand that this is hard for me). It has taken three years just to get the diagnoses and now I’m trying to find treatments that work and make it so I can live some semblance of my life again all while trying to keep my head above water and not go into crazy debt supporting myself. While I’ve definitely been doing better since understanding my diagnoses I’m not all the way and probably never will be (unless my mother was right and it was Lyme after all-fingers cross Nina can say I told you so). I’m currently in a complex chronic disease program at the leading hospital in the area and will hopefully have more answers and supports soon. 

I thought at the beginning of this year that things were getting a bit better so I got an incredible lil pupper. While to some degree they were but did not expect Freya to need 5k+ in surgery and recovery in the first year of owning her (yes I did consider insurance and would have purchase it as soon as I was able to afford it after making sure she was healthy but of course this happened and now I can’t). She’s the most amazing dog ever and deserves the best life possible as she’s been the most amazing support for me through out the last 8months. I also struggle with my mental health, always have, but it has gotten a lot worse since having to tolerate and manage constant and debilitating pain the last few years and Freya is a lot of the reason I’m still here. She’s a rescue and I don’t think her home life before was all that amazing so I want her to be able to live her best life so that we can enjoy it together. 

 

I totally understand it’s the holidays and of course the insanity that is Covid so please don’t give if you feel you can’t or you feel your support is more needed elsewhere. I’m in Canada and have free healthcare (that doesn’t count my meds that run me $200 a month as well as freyas that are about the same), and am hopefully eligible for disability once my employment insurance runs out.

 

I have attached receipts for vet bills I’ve already had to cover for diagnosis and will post receipts and quotes for surgery and rehab as soon as I get them. 

 

Thank you so much for reading and also for anything you can spare. If you don’t have cash you can donate I am also very open to other things if you have them to spare. Please please please don’t break your bank or make it so someone less fortunate goes without