Blog Post #4

For todays blog I have Read, A Last Resort by Donnie K. Winokur. It was published for Guideposts September 2012. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=d496488f-3ef8-43a5-87cd-3754f454a79e%40sessionmgr4&vid=12&hid=23&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=f5h&AN=79480504Summary: In this article, a family adopts a son. They raise their son Lyal like their own. Lyal’s mother finds out Lyal has Fetal alcohol syndrome. So she looks and searches online to see if their are any possible solutions of curing this disease. She runs into a website called “4 Paws”, and she finds out that she can have a dog trained to help out with Lyal. They have dogs for assistance of people in wheelchairs or with diseases. Each one is trained to assist with the specific disability. They soon get their dog Chancer, which made a miracle occur. He allowed Lyal to be someone who he was not.



Response: I personally feel that this is such an inspiring article. It explains to us that even though, Lyal was not his mother’s blood son, she still treated him as if he was. She never gave up. She did whatever she had to no matter how things got. It comes to show how much family means and should always mean to you. Also, it was so amazing how the help of a trained dog made such an impact. It is so unbelievable. But it comes to show, dogs are like humans. They can “communicate” with you.