Livia’s Journey through Leishmaniasis and what I learned along the way
by Anne O’Connor
Livia came from a perrera in Zaragoza, in the north of Spain. The photo here was of her there in February 2012. She looked like a small old little lady who had had a very hard life. She had what looked like a touch of mange and conjunctivitis, but nothing in the way of illness that I felt I couldn’t handle. Her face was tired, she was the little lonely dog in the corner. Looking at her I knew that I could give her the life she deserved.
However Livia’s blood tests revealed that she was in fact suffering from Leishmaniasis.