Hi everyone. Thank you so much for your unending love, support, & help with everything during this difficult time. Thank you for believing in me & helping me believe in myself so that I can continue to push through these obstacles we're dealing with. Something bad happened & I'm so saddened to ask for immediate help right now. This is an absolute emergency. I was bitten by our pet dog. He may have rabies. Animal control took him today to observe him and his aggressive behavior. My hand is looking awful & I can’t write or play my clarinet, but I’m used to pain anyway with EDS, IC, & endo…so I’m fine. I’m more emotionally hurt for many reasons. I’m very upset & heartbroken that Aaland would hurt me, but he has been aggressive towards me ever since I came home from the hospital after the miscarriage. I’m devastated that this would happen. More importantly, I regret to say this has caused a massive divide in my relationship with the man I was planning to marry and spend the rest of my life with. It’s crazy to think that I’d be pregnant with our child now. Anyway, he has changed significantly in how he treats me. He is blaming me for everything & asking me to leave on a plane back to Florida. I’m so devastated that I cannot comprehend what has happened. More details on how I was bitten below. But yeah, like, I never once thought for an instant that my safety & health would mean so little to the man who I truly believed loved me & had me as his top priority (under himself). I’m stunned. If something like this happened & Oaklynn attacked him viciously & wounded him, there would be absolutely no question or doubt in my mind on what to do. Adam means more to me than Oaklynn. He means the world to me & I would do anything for him. I love him with all of my heart & he’s given me a happiness & joy that I never even knew existed. He has helped with my health so much. He’s truly saved my life. It’s disgusting and so cruel to my heart to come to the realization this week that I don’t mean more to Adam than Aaland (dog), & while I’ve tried to point this out to him, it’s always an argument about how that isn’t true but I am, according to him, the only person he loves more than the dog. He told me if a gun was up to his dad’s head, he would still pick the dog. I told him families stay by each other and support each other. I was significantly wounded, & I am terrified & afraid of Aaland now that he’s bitten me. I love him so much & I don’t want anything to happen to him. Training so he doesn’t bite. He is a wonderful, sweet dog. He’s unfixed & jealous of me & Oaklynn, which has drawn out the aggressive episodes. When Adam saw what happened, he freaked out & was devastated Aaland would hurt me & Adam stepped in to defend me. But now, he is blaming me for everything, saying this is what I wanted, blah, blah. It’s so heart wrenching & unbelievable. I felt safe up here in South Dakota, in a home that Adam & I had made together with our furbabies. I feel like the family has been divided & that Adam refuses to even listen to my feelings or consider my health & wellbeing. He says I did this. But, I don’t understand & my heart hurts so much. I couldn’t have even imagined anything like this happened. Adam told me to let him punish him bc the dog has been abused in the past & gets mean & aggressive. I didn’t listen to him this time & I took a much safer & nicer approach for punishing that I learned from a dog trainer (this is when Aaland attacked my right hand/wrist). Adam has been telling me all week that I’m overreacting & way overexaggerating the bite. Well, several police officers (women & men) & animal control said no, I’m not. It’s a deeply bruised wound in my hand with multiple possible dislocations due to my EDS. There are like 8-12 puncture wounds. I felt so relieved & validated because Adam made me feel so horrible & like I was lying to get attention from the dog bite and milk how bad it was, when I just wanted him to look at it, acknowledge it, & try to understand why I’m scared. So it is a serious bite, confirmed by police & animal control. Adam cannot even admit that and say that to my face. He has said that I’m outta here & on a plane to Florida soon though. SO YEAH, I’m freaking out a bit. A lot. But really….I’m sorry. I love animals, but there is no question. Straight up human lives matter more than animals. My mobility has taken decreased significantly, causing me to have a number of problems, from getting out of bed to walk to the bathroom, to opening my medicine bottles & carrying around my basket of meds. I’ve fallen repeatedly over & over & over again the past week, as well as falling down the stairs multiple times, which Aaland actually liked my face to wake me up from that. Aaland is a good dog, loves me, & I love him. He just has really bad aggressive episodes targeted towards me & poor Oaklynn. I don’t know why. After all of this stress, my EDS has reached what has now become the worst & most dangerous levels I’ve yet to face with this progressive, debilitating disease. My knees are pictured after the dislocations & consecutive falls due to my EDS. They are now bruised over, much darker & purple. I need immediate help with my health & finances. It’s also reaching end of month, when my (roughly) $500 Cobra health insurance bill is due. Disability is taking so long, which is why I’m prompted to come here for help. There’s a set goal on here for a reason, & we need help reaching it. I would not be posting about this if it wasn’t an absolute emergency. This is having a detrimental effect on my physical & mental health. I am terrified & I’m struggling to not lose it. I don’t even know if I have a home now. I don’t know if I’m staying in South Dakota or flying back to Florida tomorrow. IDK. The panic attacks are never ending. If you are able, please help. Whether it’s by sharing, keeping up to date, or donating. ~ There are digital bundles of my artwork in Callie's Closet (since I cannot currently [physically] complete print orders and ship them out or ship out Patreon Rewards due to my health). These digital bundles & digital print sets on Patreon are 100% going towards my medical funds as donations. I wanted to offer an option for ya'll to receive some of my artwork digitally by contributing as opposed to donating & supporting that way only. 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