How dozens of dogs helped a Victoria man overcome adversity and bring a community together
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You just might find that although life has unfolded differently than you planned — it’s ended up feeling even better than you could have imagined.
If you had asked young Danny Lamb how things would be when he grew up, the 58-year-old would never have guessed he would be sitting in a wheelchair and calling an assisted living building home.
“I got up off the chesterfield and hit the floor,” Danny says, recalling the morning his life changed. “I thought I was dying.”
Danny suffered the first of three strokes that hospitalized him for months, leaving his motor skills compromised and his brain damaged.
“Life was taken away from me,” Danny frowns.
After 35 years of working as a contractor, and priding himself on being self-reliant, Danny was suddenly depending on others for everything. So he did nothing.
“I battled my mentality,” Danny says. “Big time depression.”
Danny says he would spend all day and night sitting alone in his chair, for more than a year.
