For anyone who knows Catherine Azar, you will know that she has dedicated her life to doing healing work with animals. For the past nearly 20 years, this work has been mostly with horses, and this work has required a very strenuous life of travel and long hours often going into the night. It is very demanding physical work.

But Catherine has done this work with passion and love, to the extent that her own health and life have suffered.  While she has selflessly given her life to others, now she is the one who needs our help. This is her story.

Seven and a half years ago, Catherine had a "heart event", the Widow Maker heart attack, which nearly ended her life. At this time she also discovered that she had Type II Diabetes, for which she had had no symptoms. After this health crisis, Catherine went back to working as hard as she had been, out of necessity because of the $75,000 in medical bills.

Then earlier this year, on her travels from working for several months in California to another horse show in Texas, Catherine landed in the hospital in Scottsdale, AZ, very close to having another heart event. This time is was a 95% blockage in the Right Coronary Artery. She had two stents put in, and when she woke up, the doctor told her that she was very lucky to have listened to her body, because she was "a heart attack waiting to happen".

This second surgery has resulted in, to quote Catherine, "the wind being taken out of my sails". Catherine has struggled this year to keep her business going and her head above water. Her stamina for the hard work that her business has entailed in the past is not there.

In particular, the long days of traveling across the country to serve her clients in other states has become very difficult and almost impossible to endure. She finds herself in a transitional time, trying to bring her work closer to home, and to open up to small animals and their people.

But all this has put her in a dire situation financially. This is affecting her ability to pay medical bills, and now, maintaining possession of her equipment for her work is also in jeopardy. If she loses her equipment, she loses the ability to make a living at all at this point in her life.

Catherine has helped thousands of horses, dogs, and people, in the course of the last 20 years of service. Her healing methods have made it possible for horses to continue to perform and give their owners and riders many more years of happiness. She has helped many riders and friends with her healing tools. And now she is opening up her work to help the lives of dogs and other animals as well. She has given of herself to the point of being in need of her own healing, both physically and financially.

Please open your hearts for Catherine the way she has opened her heart for so many others, and would like to for many years to come.