This is Gia. She is the sweetest, most loving service dog. She was basically retired, but still does her job occasionally. She got mauled by another dog about a week ago, and the image on the right is her now. For More Images/Proof:Go Here *GRAPHIC*
Now, I’m not asking for anyone to cover her vet fees, or to help us put the other dog down. What we REALLY need, is some Pajamas for Gia. I have created a wishlist of Jammies for her. Now, you’re probably asking why she needs Jammies. She is a double coated dog, a chow chow. Without her coat, she can’t keep herself warm or regulate her temperature. And we live in Ohio, where it gets very cold. Our power has already gone out once this winter, Gia won’t be okay if she gets too cold. She can’t go outside, she can’t sleep, she can’t heal. These pajamas also help to keep the bandage on her neck stable, and keeps her from rubbing it off. She is bleeding, oozing over herself constantly, so we need a lot of pajamas to keep rotating them. They won’t just get used once, they’ll be used all winter and through the spring even! Until she is healed, they will be used and very appreciated.
If you can’t help us by buying her some pajamas, can you please reblog this? We got hit with $3000 of vet bills that we do not have the money for. And she is due for another surgery to remove the rest of the dead skin next week.
Here are My Commissions if you can’t buy her one, but want to help! And Here is My Ko-Fi If you’d rather that.
Please don’t let this post die down! Someone was SO wonderful and already bought her a sweater so she can go outside when it snows. If that person wants to message me, I’ll send them pictures of her in it (if they want!) !!!
Please keep sharing ♡ Gia really needs clothes so she doesn’t get cold. Her face is swelling and she is going to the vet on Monday to get it checked out.
“i can’t do simple hygiene bc im depressed”
that’s easy babe! just do simple hygiene
Y’all always have to wallow in your misery instead of considering maybe, just maybe, the encouragement people like this give is just telling people to do one, easy thing instead of worrying about a whole routine. Can’t make yourself shower? That’s fine, just brush your teeth. Don’t have the energy to do your hair? Okay, just brush your teeth.
Making 1 small change that can start improving your mood leads to other small changes. When I couldn’t make myself shower I would make sure I changed underwear every day. And then I started using baby wipes to keep myself fresh. And then I worked my way back to trying to take showers every day. My record might not be perfect but I’m getting better.
It’s really unhealthy to keep the mindset that anyone who isn’t miserable and suffering under their mental illness or emotional problems doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Maybe they’ve just grown to learn how to love and care for themselves in spite of what they’re going through.
People want to get mad at Gay Jesus for giving tips he’s probably used himself to get over depression. All people see is gays being their entertainment and forget they’re fucking human. Depression and every other kind of mental or emotional thing you can think of affects marginalized people exponentially for every level of marginalization their identity can claim. Queer people almost universally have experienced depression or anxiety because of their identity. You don’t think a gay man this flamboyant has faced shit???
He knows what he’s talking about. Don’t over simplify what he said because you want to downplay it. Overcoming step one is always the way to get through things. This is great advice.
Not to be corny on main but uhhh openly expressing love to people you care about is the best thing in the world and we should allow ourselves to be emotionally vulnerable more often
Just to clarify, I wrote this after visiting one of my best friends in the hospital, who is dying after beating cancer 5 times at the tender age of 37. She used to be my boss, and had it not been for both of us getting sick at the same time in our lives, and choosing to be open about our experiences with each other, I know we’d never be as close as we are today. And if we weren’t, I’d never have gotten the chance to know such an incredible person who has inspired me to keep going when all I wanted to do was give up. I love this friend dearly, and I am so lucky to have been given the chance to tell her that on multiple occasions or be a part of her life at all.
No one wants to share the ugly parts of their lives. No one wants to appear “weak” and vulnerable. But, by sharing those things, you are actually doing the opposite. There is great strength and courage in vulnerability. By opening yourself to others, you are also opening yourself to the reception of support, joy, love, and basic human connection, which you may never have even known was out there and waiting for you. Sure, you can choose to remain closed off, but those who do this to protect themselves from the possibility of getting hurt sometimes fail to appreciate close relationships and intimacy. People can be good, you guys. Love doesn’t always have to be about romance. Allow yourselves to be vulnerable with other people every now and then, you never know what kind of connections you can make or who you are inspiring without even knowing it.
Another long term patient went home recently, Clownie the cloth doll. I don’t have many dolls up here, so I thought I’d share her story with you. I’ll be putting Orangie the Raggedy Ann up at some point in the future, but right now, while clean, she still needs new arms and legs!
So… Clownie. Clownie was sixteen when she arrived at the hospital, and as you can see, she had had a LOT of adventures:
She was scheduled for a spa, hand recovering, a new nose, shoe repair, and all new clothes (including a replacement hat). The clothes took a while, because we had to mail order just the right dots.
Here she is in the spa:
Believe it or not, her hat was originally yellow!
Here is Clownie as she started surgery. She’s clean, and these were fabric options for her new hand recovering:
Don’t worry, I know her face and eye are off a bit here!
Her person was concerned about her hands, so I took a lot of photos as they were done. Here you can see one original, cleaned:
And how it was recovered:
Clownie got a heart with a little of her original stuffing put in:
And her new clothes were cut out of all new fabric using her old clothes as a pattern:
She got a new jumper, new removable collar, and new hat. And her face got fixed up. Here she was, ready to go home:
Pretty happy, don’t you think? And she made it home safe and sound! Her person in Ohio wrote:
Clownie looks super awesome! Good as new!
Clownie has finally arrived! I was so happy to see her again earlier today. Thank you so much for all your hard work on her. She looks amazing!
I really can’t thank you enough!
i am literally about to cry at work op thank you so much
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