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Check out 4pawsforability.org for some cute dogs up for adoption!
Dylan (age 12) to receive a Seizure Response Dog from 4 Paws For Ability!!!!
Seizure Response dogs are trained to assist their owners during seizures and provide a measure of comfort and security for a child. The dogs can be trained to remove the pillows and covers from the person who has a seizure while sleeping and prevent suffocation during the seizure activity. The dogs can also be trained to go for help and/or lay across the person, preventing them from trying to stand up in the confusion, and possibly sustaining serious injury.
We have committed to raise $12,000 for the special training a Seizure Response Dog needs. 4 Paws has already received a quarter of the total in Dylan's honor toward our goal! Thank you SOOOO much for the donations.
All funds are donated directly to 4 Paws for Ability, 253 Dayton Ave., Xenia, Ohio 45385.
This is not a scam. We generally do not collect any monies ourselves except perhaps from friends and/or family who know we will absolutely forward the donations on to 4 Paws. You are welcome to check out the organization on the Net at 4pawsforability.org
Dylan receives credit toward his goal when you put "In Honor of Dylan Slater" on your check or donation form.
If you would like to help us meet the rest of our goal (still need around $9000.00), please message me and I will email a donation form to send in with your contribution so that you may recieve tax credit for your generosity.
4 Paws For Ability is a 501c3 organization.
You can also contact the organization directly through Karen Shirk, the founder, at [email protected] or through the website at www.4pawsforability.org . If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via the message link or Karen at [email protected].
We can use money, volunteers to host fundraising events, items or services for raffles and silent auctions, workers for fundraising events organized by others, and people to present our cause to business owners so that they may consider us in their annual charity budgets.
View a video of an Autism Assistance Dog in action:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOZ3STqit6w_
and a video of a Mobility Assitance Dog in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQhV1ZVbspY
4 Paws For Ability TM is a not for profit agency placing service animals with people who have limited physical, mental, or emotional abilities. (http://www.4pawsforability.org/seizuredogs.htm)
A Little Background on Dylan
Dylan was diagnosed at the age of 7 months old with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex(TSC), a rare, multi-system genetic disease that causes benign tumors to grow in the brain and on other vital organs. TSC results in a combination of symptoms including seizures, developmental delay, behavioral problems, skin abnormalities, and kidney disease. The disorder affects an estimated one in 6,000 newborns. (www.tsalliance.org).
We travel at least twice a year to Cincinnati, Ohio's Children's Hospital from South Mississippi to see Dr. Franz at the Tuberous Sclerosis clinic there. Everyone is so great to us up there and my neurologist here, Dr. Maertens in Mobile, Alabama is so willing to work together with Dr. Franz to help Dylan. We are very blessed to have such great doctors.
Because of the TSC, Dylan also suffers with Lennox Gastaut Syndrome, a seizure syndrome that is difficult to treat and often does not respond to the usual seizure medications. Dylan has never had full seizure control, even when he was taking up to 6 seizure medications at one time. Dylan has avoided serious injury but has had several scrapes, cuts, and bruises from drop seizures (http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/answerplace/Medical/seizu res/types/genConvulsive/atonic.cfm). He currently experiences anywhere from two to six seizures every day of his life. He is also fairly isolated because his developmental delays make cultivating friendships difficult. Dylan is so excited about the prospect of having a canine companion. At the age of 12, in spite of his delays, he yearns for more independence but lives with the fear of having a seizure at any time. Knowing his assistance dog will alert when he has a seizure can provide him with enough security to stay put when he feels a seizure coming and allow the dog to get help for him. It will also give him a sense of accomplishment as he works with his dog to maintain the skills it learned in training and a common ground on which to foster new friendships.
Thank you in advance for your love, prayers, support, and concern. Please know that any contribution no matter how small, is so very much appreciated.[ ]
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Dylan REALLY wants to meet his new seizure response dog as soon as possible!
He would also love to meet his baseball hero, Chipper Jones, as well as the other Braves players!
We hope to finally get him to a Braves game this year.

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