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Monday, November 06, 2006

 
MS brings her whole new kind of friend :The Taunton Gazette -/a>
BERKLEY - They don't call them man's best friend f
No one knows this better than multiple sclerosis patient Tracy Houlihan, a dog groomer with three dogs already who found a new best friend in a four-legged, wet-snouted doberman named Sergio.

"He has changed my life," said Houlihan, who welcomed Sergio into her County Street home two months ago as her service dog.

Houlihan didn't know what to expect and what struggles she would face when she was diagnosed with MS two years ago. "When I found out, I was scared to death," Houlihan said.

There are many different kinds of MS that affect people in different ways. Houlihan's MS causes her persistent severe pain and leg spasms. She has no night vision, her medications cut her immune system in half and she regularly suffers from exhaustion.

"I have to take drugs for the pain, drugs to wake up, drugs to go to sleep," Houlihan said. "It's just one vicious circle."

Though constantly in pain, Houlihan is a single mother who had a house to keep up and a son, now 21, to put through college. She had to work hard even through serious illness.

"I would go shopping at Shaw's and the pain was so bad that I would just fall," Houlihan said. "It is very difficult and embarrassing for me to walk around with a cane, so it got to the point that I would just stay in the house."
That was when Houlihan decided to adopt a service dog from a kennel in Mattapoisett called Magis Dobes.

"I had to go through a long process before I even got the dog," Houlihan said. "They checked with my vets, my handler, people at our shows, and had to meet them and the dog before I finally got him."
But it was love at first bark when Sergio finally met his new owner.

"We bonded almost right away," Houlihan said. "You would have thought that I raised him as a puppy."
Houlihan gets around with much greater ease these days with a little help from Sergio, who gives her a paw-up doing daily tasks such as pulling her up stairs or retrieving her cell phone.

"This is the smartest dog that I have ever had to train," Houlihan said. "He senses me, and if I have pain he will bark at me and make me sit down, and if I fall he knows before I do."

In addition to being good company, Houlihan said taking care of Sergio also gives her a reason to get out of bed each morning. She looks forward to feeding him, taking him out, training him and exercising him.
"He keeps me going and gives me a better will to fight, because I know he needs me," Houlihan said. "He is a friend that will always be there for me, even if he does have four legs."



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