I thought I would share with you guys the story of how/why I got Spirit, to show how much a pup can change a persons life (although I am sure everyone knows this first hand!)
When I was 16 I started going through a severe depression.( I am 21 now, by the way. I know, just a "baby") Over the years it kept getting worse, despite medication after medication. Between the months of March 95 and November 96 I tried killing myself a total of 7 times. The doctors had all given up on me and basically had me on so many drugs I was a zombie. They told my mum to prepare herself, because I was eventually going to be successful, and there was nothing they could do.
My mum however was not going to let me go that easily. After the last attempt, when I got home from the ICU, she announced we were going out. After dragging a very reluctant me into the car, we went to a place she had read in the paper had Siberian Husky puppies. Before all this started I had worked at the local SPCA, and often said how much I loved the breed. Well, we went out into the back yard, and there were 11 pups running around in the snow. My life started to turn around right then.
Having Spirit has made a huge difference in my life back in the beginning; she gave me reason to get up in the morning, something to live for because it was obvious I needed a reason other than myself. As days went by I learned how to smile again. I really believe that without her I would not be here today.
Today I am doing great. I am still on medication, and will be for the rest of my life because of a chemical imbalance, but no suicide attempts since I got my furbaby. I am very happy to be alive now, and very thankful I never did succeed. I don't even think about it anymore, despite all that is going on in my life (my parents separated, I got sick and my mum was diagnosed with cancer the same time Spirit was diagnosed) I have a great doc who encourages me to bring Spirit to my appointments with him. (She is so sweet no one can resist her!) I believe Spirit was put on the earth to show me how to live again, among many other things. She is my fur-angel as well as my furbaby.
