PTSD Service Dog Blocked from Entering Palos Heights Gas Station
The Palos Heights nonprofit that supplied Buster the dog to the veteran wants to turn what happened at the gas station into a teachable moment.
The anxiety Christopher Majewski is often so overwhelming, even crowds of people at a mall can be too much for the 31-year-old vet. Majewksi, who now lives in Oak Lawn, served two tours in Afghanistan with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and now suffers from post traumatic stress disorder. To help cope, he was partnered with a service dog designed to aid him when the anxiety of a situation becomes too much. "Before I got him, I was a wreck. I didn’t go anywhere," Majewski said. "Then, I got him. We went to church the other day. We go out to eat." "And the nightmares ... jeez," he said. "When I have a bad nightmare, he's there. He's waking me up. He sleeps across my chest." The pair ran into a bit of an issue in late November at a Palos …
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kurt whitehead
7:51 pm on Monday, April 15, 2013
I totally agree with you David. chris is a fucking liar..... after i got out if the army i joined the national guard and he was there.... he didn't know shit, went on the easiest deployment ever. now he's pulling in 100%.... i want to expose the shit outta this guy.... kurt whitehead, 2 tours of duty. 1 in Iraq 06-07 (2id 1/23inf recon). 1 Afghanistan 08-09 (1-178inf national guard) more ›