Hi there!
First of all, thank you so much for taking your time looking at my page. My name is Hannah and I'm an 18 years old student (for 2 shorter days a week at least which is all I can handle!) living in Sweden. I live and suffer with fibromyalgia (chronic pain, but also comes with fun things like fatigue, unable to keep normal temperatures, often feeling hot and cold on the same time, IBS, sleepproblems, migraine, sensitivity to infections, bad balance and a lot more fun things),aspergers syndrome,ADD,chronic depression,GAD,panicattacks,hallucinations,obsessive compulsions
and paranoia to mention a few things. As you might have figured out I spend a lot of time in hospitals and psychiatrics as well as habilitation (and home). I can't do a lot of things healthy persons can do. On bad paindays I can't even get out of bed because of the pain and fatigue, and even when I can I have to deal with lots of chronic pain and fatigue as well as my other problems. I always have to rely on other people taking care of me when I've got bad days, which is very stressful seeing as I only have my best friend to do that, and if that is taken out of the picture I've got no one. I am far from independent, I take someone with me pretty much wherever I go, I ride disability cab instead of public transportation, can only handle to study two days a week from 9-13, I have lots of help from psychiatrics, doctors and homeaid. This all is due to my healthissues. While Sweden has "free healthcare" a lot of things will still cost you, which isn't easy when you're on a student's income. It's not unusual for me to have several meetings a week with doctors, psychiatrists and the habilitation staff, as well as having my homeaid come here 1-3 times a week and calling me every day. A lot of these things cost, as well as all the medicines I have to take which is steadily increasing. I just recently had to up my antidepressants again as well as had to buy a walking cane. I can easily have to spend 100 usd a month (or more, this month it was 150) only for medication. (I currently have 14 standard pills a day, usually some extra)


Now to the goal with this funding...
(the goal might seem extreme but service dogs are very expensive here being uncommon and having to be paid for all by ourselves. HERE is a great link about why they cost so much.)
I want to be able to get a servicedog to help me become more independent and make me able to do things normal people can, with less suffering too. I want the dog not to rely on but rather to become more independent. I want to be able to survive by myself and get through my paindays by myself. I cannot rely on anyone always being there anymore.

I want to do things myself, anything that a healthy person can do! I want to be able to buy groceries, do laundry, make breakfast by myself in the morning, survive by myself on bad days, be able to use public transportation, go to the mall, be able to walk places without it being torture!

The dog would learn how to retrieve named objects for me (VERY useful when I'm stuck in bed and need medication, phone, food etc), pick up things i drop (I drop things without noticing it a lot), pick up things from the floor, open drawers, pull me forward when the fatigue is too bad or in places like stairs, support my balance, open lids (like the one on the trashcan i usually can't reach myself), calm and notice/alert panicattacks before they go to far, put things away, help with laundry, get me my medc, wake me up when my alarm goes off, interupt selfharm, provide a buffer/shield for me in crowded areas, extinguish flashbacks and overloads by bringing me into the here and now, provide deep pressure during panic attacks, stand behind/in front of me or circle around me to create a barrier, help pull off socks or shoes and more.

Except for these great tasks it would also provide me warmth (soothes the pain a lot), security, independence, make me exercise more (which is really though to get yourself to do when you're dealing with this pain but it helps in the long term!), make social connections easier and enable me to do a lot of things I can't now, like going places by myself and surviving without other persons always helping me out.

Having this dog should provide me with a much higher level of independence, exercise, energy, social connections and security as well as just enabling me to live a more normal life with less pain. It would mean the world to me to get a bit of my life back and manage to do things on my own, with help of 4 paws. Every little bit helps, really. Even if you cannot donate you can help by spreading the word. Thank you so much for reading!
Love, Hannah.
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♥THANK YOU♥

Thank you all so much for this overwhelming kindness, I see the journals and tweets spreading and I just don't know what to say. I'm stunned. I have never experienced kindness and caring like this before. Everyone really wants to help! I've even gotten artists offering art for donations, so we're gonna make this fun!
Except for art from me...
Donate...
5 USD and get a free lineart made by
10 USD and get a free badge made by + anything below
15 USD and get free art made by + anything below
20 USD and get a free sketch made by + anything below
30 USD and get free art made by + anything below
40 USD and get free art made by + anything below
50 USD and get free art (shaded piece) made by + anything below
60 USD and get a free badge/icon made by + anything below
100 USD and get a free headshot made by + anything below
110 USD and get a free flat coloured made by (1 available!)
60 USD and above..
is going to do a raffle for all the people who donate over $60 to this cause!
If you are the winner of the raffle you will receive an icon for your profile, a digital badge and a semi-realistic sketch! When you donate over $60 I will give you a number, the number you are given will be recorded and Chip will then use random.org to figure out who the winner is.



Special thanks to you lovely artists offering art ♥
(please give me a shout if i've forgotten you!!)
Journals and mentions have been made by..
dainty
chesta
kemushi.
5lakk
rileyy
razzy_lee
forevernika
baronessai
syber
enjoipandas
wild-life
sockune
katanaredwolf
bella_coyote
havik
sparkycando
crystalicethorn
blarmajin
goldcat
radcatstudios
wildpup11
tabbystorm
bluecanary
rokosho
Thatsfurredup
wolfy-nail

Thank you so much lovelies♥♥♥
I don't know how to thank ya'll, you're just amazing and filled to the top with generousity and kindness♥


ALSO, this headbase mold is up for auction and all the money will go towards this cause!
http://www.furbuy.com/auctions/1060421.html