Wheelchair, and Veteranarian bills for Odin
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The dog who once saved my life now needs me to return the favor. Post Marine Corps life, I was suffering from symptoms of PTSD, being isolated and unable to reconnect with society and my dog filled a vacuum I had no idea how to even begin to deal with. In my isolation and depression Odin taught me in many ways how to be a human being again; he taught me about empathy, compassion, and the healing abilities found in providing nurture to something or someone who needs it and through Odin I learned more about myself and life than I ever expected to learn.
3 weeks ago Odin was found by my parents limping and unable to lay down and today we still don’t know what’s wrong with Odin. My family has taken him to see 2 different vets and the general consensus is he must have hurt his back playing with his brother in the back yard possibly slipping a disk or rupturing one but neither of them know what’s going on for sure. I don’t have the financial means to get an X-ray/MRI, or even a blood test to find the main cause of his pain or his injury.
The vets currently have him on pain pills to try and manage his pain but that’s all we can do at the moment. As of writing this Odin hasn’t eaten in the last 2 or 3 days, is only drinking water with the help of my mom administering it through a water bottle, and cannot get up from his bed to pee or poop without my family sustaining his weight with his leash or a belt underneath his hips. Living so far away and unable to be at my dogs side at the moment I’ve chosen to go this route to ask you; my friends and family to help me at the very least obtain a doggy wheelchair so Odin can move around on his own and hopefully even obtain an X-ray or MRI to identify the issue of his legs being unable to move. Thank you to everyone who has reached out via comments and private messages, your support means a lot and as of now I can only hope to make it home in time to be able to see my dog ❤️
3 weeks ago Odin was found by my parents limping and unable to lay down and today we still don’t know what’s wrong with Odin. My family has taken him to see 2 different vets and the general consensus is he must have hurt his back playing with his brother in the back yard possibly slipping a disk or rupturing one but neither of them know what’s going on for sure. I don’t have the financial means to get an X-ray/MRI, or even a blood test to find the main cause of his pain or his injury.
The vets currently have him on pain pills to try and manage his pain but that’s all we can do at the moment. As of writing this Odin hasn’t eaten in the last 2 or 3 days, is only drinking water with the help of my mom administering it through a water bottle, and cannot get up from his bed to pee or poop without my family sustaining his weight with his leash or a belt underneath his hips. Living so far away and unable to be at my dogs side at the moment I’ve chosen to go this route to ask you; my friends and family to help me at the very least obtain a doggy wheelchair so Odin can move around on his own and hopefully even obtain an X-ray or MRI to identify the issue of his legs being unable to move. Thank you to everyone who has reached out via comments and private messages, your support means a lot and as of now I can only hope to make it home in time to be able to see my dog ❤️
Organizer
John Zhino Bettancourt
Organizer
Pittsburg, CA
