Team Wessar - Canine Companion

 

I’m a 53 year old single, full-time Dad of an amazing fourteen year old boy. I'm an honorably discharged, disabled Army Infantry Vet. I served on the Korean DMZ for 13 months of a four year stint. The South Korean girl in one of our pictures gave me the flowers I'm wearing. Our income is fixed and VERY limited. Social Security. If it weren’t for a DEAR friend lending us up to hundreds of dollars almost monthly until the next month comes, I shudder to think where we'd be right now.

The funds we're asking for are for a Canine companion for me, $2,000 we're guess-timating for a round trip, room, and board needed to Minnesota for one-on-one training with an official Service Dog. He, Comrade, is a 9-week Basic trainee graduate, rescued, specially chosen, and he’s on his way from Lincoln, NE to Minnesota for 9 months advanced individual training, of which we're needed to attend for approximately a month. I will be their first Nebraska Vet recipient too apparently. I’ve been see-sawing on doing this for years. I get maybe three hours a day with my son and 2 hours of sleep a night. Hours and hours of obsessing and worrying, alone, PTSD and Depression to boot. This would improve my life in so many ways. My son graduates in 4 years, then . . .

BTW, the Lincoln adoption team is stellar! https://www.facebook.com/SecondChancePupsNebraska/

For years now we've had trouble making ends meet month after month with no relief in sight. Just tired of the bills, all on top of now seemingly insurmountable medical issues, and at this time of my life when I should be able to at least keep up with my son. We’ve always been charitable people. Clothing donations, food drives, pain-a-thons, you name it. I always remember that line at the end of “Willy Wonka”: “So shines a good deed, in a weary world.” I worked hard when I could. It just seems ludicrous that I spent four years going through what I went through in defense of our Country, and I just can’t accept this is how it will continue to be. Thank you so much for anything you can do to help us.