Disabled Veteran Rescues Cat Who Rescues Him Too
Source: Love Meow
A disabled veteran saved a cat but what he didn’t know was the cat rescued him too. “I’m a disabled veteran and this is my cat Camille-lynn who helps with my anxiety issues from things that happened to me in the army,” reddit user rukia8492 wrote.
He shares his story with Love Meow:
I have nine years of service in the military with three tours of Afghanistan.
Camille-lynn came into my life in late November 2013 while I was stationed in Hawaii. I had just had surgery on my right ankle to reconstruct the tendons which was extremely painful. While I was recovering my wife saw a post on the Schofield barracks pet page of Facebook asking if anybody would like a cat free to a good home. My wife asked me if we could have her and I said ‘Yes!’. We drove over and took her home. That cat was Camille-lynn. After a few days where she became used to our home I noticed Camille was extremly affectionate.
A week and a half after we got Camille I had one of my anxiety attacks that are the result of an incident that happened in my second tour of Afghanistan where I was the first person on the scene of a helicopter crash and pulled the survivors to safety and recovered the bodies of those that had perished. During my anxiety attack, Camille walked onto my chest as I lay on my bed and began to knead her paws on my chest. Around this time she also began to sleep either near me or on me.
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But I can tell you for a *FACT* that my beautiful little tabby cat is the best thing that ever happened to me during a bad period in my life. She saved me as much as I saved her from a winter of starvation.
She is one of the best friends I have ever had. 
(very fine indeed, kitty! 
)
