Late Winter and Spring 2025 Recap
This year, I returned to Carriacou to help with surgery, community outreach, and emergency care. I was also able to bring another piece of medical equipment that they have been hoping for.
I brought a centrifuge that allows them to make sure that patients have enough red blood cells. This is important for surgery and for diseases that put animals at risk of bleeding. They are slowly rebuilding their equipment stock as they begin the process of building a new clinic after the complete destruction during Hurricane Beryl.
I spent an extended amount of time helping at the GSPCA over the course of several months. This clinic is incredible and serves an astonishing number of patients. I was able to do some surgery, emergency care, and general care appointments in order to support the staff and help more animals in a given day. This clinic sees set appointments but also serves an extensive number of walk-ins and stray drop offs. I was also able to bring flea and tick prevention, heartworm prevention, antibiotics, as well as heartworm and tick-borne disease testing materials. I will be returning once again to the clinic this fall to help.
Statistics of note from the year:
Total targeted fundraising for the full year 2025 is $100,000.
Hours of no cost care to communities served: nearly 270 hours, including administrative duties, around 370 hours since October 2024. This includes, emergency care, routine preventative care, and spay/neuter. This equates to more than 9 weeks full-time weeks of vet care, nearly a season’s worth of work for a single doctor.
Value of goods provided: approx. $25,000 (This includes antibiotics, medical equipment, flea and tick prevention, heartworm prevention, bandage material, medicine for gastrointestinal diseases and internal parasites, etc.)
Served ~430 individual patients in person, Medications and preventatives for hundreds more
Returning to Grenada and Carriacou to volunteer with CAH and GSPCA again in November. CAH (carriacou animal hospital) is building a new hospital for which they are seeking funding. Their original hospital was destroyed in Beryl. I would like to help raise funds for this. GSPCA is always short on basic medications such as antibiotics. I would like to be able to bring them some of what they need.
The Heeling Vet is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit organization. We have been functioning as a non-profit, but gained formal designation this summer.
