COVID-19 & Pets

Mini Episode 22

Part of the Special COVID-19 & AiArthritis Series

Air Date: April 22, 2020

Welcome to this week’s episode of AiArthritis Voices 360: At The Table. This week join your patient host Kelly Conway, co-founder of International Foundation for AiArthritis, as she updates us all on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to pets and their owners. She gives a thorough review of what all owners should do to protect and care for their pets, service animals, or emotional support animals during the pandemic. She also discusses specifically what to do if you contract COVID-19 and must have contact with your service animal or emotional support animal or if you have no-one else to care for your pets.  

For more information about Kelly and Georgia, therapy dogs, and the ways animals can improve the lives of patients living with AiArthritis diseases, check out Episode 4: Pets and Chronic Illness.

Since this episode was recorded, we are sad to share that Georgia Grace lost her battle with chronic illness on April 7th, 2020, just 12 days before her 11th birthday. Kelly was told that Georgia would never live past age 3, so she sees each day past then has been a gift. Although Georgia Grace is gone, her legacy will go on helping other families with animals living with chronic illness. Learn more about Georgia, and how she touched the lives of thousands, on her Facebook page.

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Kelly Conway, Co-Founder


Kelly is a speech-language pathologist, author/blogger, and a patient advocate. She has been living with autoimmune arthritis since age 14 but wasn’t formally diagnosed until age 32. That diagnosis has changed more than 5 times over the past 18 years. Through social media, she connected with fellow patients and cofounded the International Foundation for Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory arthritis. She has represented her state of Pennsylvania on Capitol Hill for the American College of Rheumatology multiples times, and speaks of the patient perspective at medical/pharmaceutical conferences. Kelly believes in the power of the patient voice and sharing our stories to raise awareness, education, and advocacy.

 

Follow Kelly: Check out Kelly’s blog is “As My Joints Turn: My Autoimmune Soap Opera” at www.asmyjointsturn.com .  Visit her facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Lolabellaquin/ and twitter twitter.com/lolabellaquin . She has also authored a book about her chronically ill dog, called, “Making Lemonade with Georgia Grace.” Visit the facebook page about Georgia at https://www.facebook.com/georgiathecavalier . 

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