12/28/2023 0 Comments Freedom fries snopes![]() ![]() I never forget the honor I have of being so close to such a magnificent spirit as Freedom’s. His knees just about buckled and he swore he could feel her power coarse through his body. I once had a guy who was terminal come up to us and I let him hold her. On a side note: I have had people who were sick come up to us when we are out, and Freedom has some kind of hold on them. ![]() We have been soul mates ever since she came in. She looked at me and wrapped both her wings around me to where I could feel them pressing in on my back (I was engulfed in eagle wings), and she touched my nose with her beak and stared into my eyes, and we just stood there like that for I don’t know how long. I hadn’t said a word to Freedom, but somehow she knew. I went to her flight and jessed her up, and we went out front to the top of the hill. So the first thing I did was get up to Sarvey and take the big girl out for a walk. I went in Monday, and I was told that all the cancer was gone. Anyway, they did the tests and I had to come back Monday for the results. I was told that if the cancer was not all gone after 8 rounds of chemo, then my last option was a stem cell transplant. This happened time and time again.įast forward to November 2000, the day after Thanksgiving, I went in for my last checkup. Freedom would also come to me in my dreams and help me fight the cancer. When I felt good enough, I would go to Sarvey and take Freedom out for walks. I had stage 3, which is not good (one major organ plus everywhere), so I wound up doing 8 months of chemo. In the spring of 2000, I was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma. We wound up in the newspapers, radio (believe it or not) and some TV. I got her used to the glove, and then to jesses, and we started doing education programs for schools in western Washington. We knew she could never fly, so the director asked me to glove train her. I went immediately back to her dowl cage and there she was, standing on her own, a big beautiful eagle. I didn’t want to go to the center that Thursday, because I couldn’t bear the thought of her being euthanized but I went anyway, and when I walked in everyone was grinning from ear to ear. She was going to be put down that Friday, and I was supposed to come in on that Thursday afternoon. You know you don’t want to cross that line between torture and rehab, and it looked like death was winning. It got to the point where the decision was made to euthanize her if she couldn’t stand in a week. This went on for 4-6 weeks, and by then she still couldn’t stand. I used to sit and talk to her, urging her to live, to fight and she would lay there looking at me with those big brown eyes. We had her in a huge dog carrier with the top off, and it was loaded up with shredded newspaper for her to lay in. We made the decision to give her a chance at life, so I took her to the vet’s office. Both wings were broken, her left wing in 4 places. When Freedom came in she could not stand. The newsroom received an email with the below-transcribed message:įreedom and I have been together 10 years this summer. In March 2008, Snopes was alerted to a story about an injured bald eagle named "Freedom" who was supposedly nursed back to health with the help of a cancer survivor. ![]()
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