Your dog looks at you like you're the greatest person alive. Everyone needs that. No one knows it more than Arnold herself. It was in 1979, just short of her 16th birthday, that she contracted measles. Her once active life degenerated into a grim routing.
Relationships become awkward.
Everything becomes awkward. The youngest of four, Jennifer was born to Harry Arnold, an ophthalmologist, and his wife, Margaret Ann, a homemaker. We spent a lot of time together. And it was Harry who came upon an idea for helping his daughter cope with her illness. After contacting Canine Companions for Independence, a fledgling organization in Santa Rosa, Calif., founded by former English teacher Bonnie Bergin, Arnold was devastated to learn that Bergin could not offer a dog to someone 3,000 miles away.