Daily Archives: September 25, 2019

My journey with Ollie 2

 tagged psychiatric service dog / service dog / standard poodle by (updated 1864 days ago)

CONTENT WARNING: Talk of past suicide attempt When I got Ollie, I was an active graduate student at UC Berkeley. I was still unmedicated, but managing my bipolar to my advantage– using my hypomanic episodes to get large amounts of research done, and staying home during the depressions and psychoses. […]

Patiently purple 1

 tagged wheelchair by (updated 1864 days ago)

This morning we had an appointment scheduled with Brad’s GP at 10:45. Two days ago we even got a confirmation call about the appointment. However, when we showed up today, they told us our appointment had been cancelled. Luckily the person behind the desk helping us was very nice and […]