A woman living with a rare connective tissue disorder said having an assistance dog had given her back her life again. Shelley Fitzsimmons, 52, from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), which causes her joints to dislocate without warning.Last year she was matched with her second assistance dog, Meikle, a three-year-old golden Labrador retriever, and said “it was like a light came back on” when he “bounced” into her home.Jo Burns, from the charity Canine Partners, which matched Meikle with Fitzsimmons, said the trained dogs “open doors, literally and figuratively, for people”.
Leighton Buzzard woman says her assistance dog is life-changing
