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don't get to tomorrow then it’s over. Having spent too many years down that dark rabbit hole, I can tell you for a fact that it's probably one of the most powerful messages that anybody can share. If you get to the point where the knot is slipping out of the end of the rope, then you got to find another way to retie it really quickly and then just hang on.
My spouse Jocelyn and I were married for 286 days when I went away and got hurt. We recently celebrated our 33rd year of marriage. She has hung in through thick and thin. Not only does she serve as my caregiver, and she has dealt with my injuries for 32 years, but when our oldest daughter was eight she was diagnosed with cancer and had reoccurrences at nine, ten (when they said she wouldn't live to be eleven), and at eleven they grafted her fibula to her spine, and she eventually passed when she was twenty-six from her fourth reoccurrence of cancer. So, my wife has had to be an awfully strong women to do what she had done, and continues to do. She affectionately answers to 'the Chief' which is kind of an inside joke. You can be the Captain of a ship, but until the Chief says you are ready to sail, nothing happens. That's kind of where that comes from.
My spouse and I co-founded the organization 'Paws Fur Thought' and last January (2018) I stepped away and now operate in a mentorship role there, advising on nine different Service Dog programs in Canada. As I drink my morning cup of liquid sanity, I cannot help but reflect upon the absolute lack of understanding of Service Dogs for PTSD that pervades the upper echelons of Veteran's Affairs Canada (VAC). This runs contrary to VAC's stated mandate and the words of the minister. In any case, VAC is in possession of data that supports the use of Service Dogs yet
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