My name is Matt and I have a terminal illness I am 43 years old. I have no friends and no family the keep contact with me, And the only people I see how the salvos and Uniting go drop the food off to me once a week.
Early this morning on Christmas Day my best friend in the world and the only thing that keeps me going, my 2 year old carer dog “Gordon” was poisoned when he ate the Christmas hamper that was delivered to me by a kind nurse the other day.
The hamper had fruit mince pies in it which contained sultanas, and because I have had brain surgery which failed badly, I have a left with many side-effects from the surgery such as one which is similar to narcolepsy where I just “Black out“ Asleep without notice.
That was what happened when Gordon ate the fruit mince pies - (I normally keep an eye on him like an eagle, not because he needs it, because he’s my boy and my best friend and my only companion - but because I was blacked out asleep and hadn’t fed Gordon yet early this morning, The little fella found a way of jumping up onto my kitchen bench and getting into the Christmas hamper.
I woke up some seven hours later, at around 11 am, and saw what Gordon had eaten, and immediately rushed him via taxi because there is no one who can help me, to an emergency vet.
He is currently on some kind of dialysis machine which flushes his kidneys to get rid of the toxins from the sultanas, and is in a very very bad way.
so I have spent Christmas today on my own without my best friend who might die, and of course I think its all my fault even though it’s over and done with now, that he manage to jump up onto the kitchen table and ate these things which poisoned him.
Gordon is in the right place and is being looked after, and I have just finished scrambling to find someone who will take me to the vet tomorrow morning because I am out of money now, so that I can check on Gordon because they have given me special permission so that I can stay with Gordon as long as I want to tomorrow
however I’m definitely not doing well so I just did a google search for “Xmas lonely live chat Australia”, and this forum was the only thing that pretty much popped up.
so I’m just wondering if there’s anyone out there who wouldn’t mind saying hello as I’m extremely traumatised and lonely and missing my best mate more than you could believe right now.
