Welcome to Dogs are Medicine
The unabashed adventures of a service team.
This is the story of my life-saving dog, Waffle and her successor, Tugboat.
In 2013, after a decade of psychiatric hospitalizations, debilitating mood lability, suicidality and psychosis, my doctors told me I would only survive my mental illness if I lived in a locked, long-term psychiatric ward. I refused to accept that fate and with the guidance of a …