Rachael Bailey

Once a Licensed Vet Tech that went on to specialize in Anesthesia & Analgesics [as well as essential pain management - including long term for senior pets] .. Unfortunately a rare bone disease I was diagnosed with around the age of 7-ish began to worsen throughout my 20’s decade into my 30’s. Leaving me with no choice but to have both hips replaced by the age of 31. Along with my surgical team & my pain management team refusing to let me return to the work I was doing [even as I was beginning to shift more and more into Shelter Medicine]. Now I am on disability & exploring some of my old hobbies/interests pre-med school [What I originally planned on doing but then life had other plans so I could only become a technician..]

So these days I am now back in my home town in Upstate NY with my Clowder of 10 rescue & neonatal foster cats ;) [Automatic win if anyone knows what ‘Clowder’ means without looking it up - haha] while I work on getting everything in order to *hopefully* tie up all my loose ends back here, which will allow me to [*fingers crossed*] hopefully get the heck off disability permenantly by launching my own e-commerce start up company & with the help of a few of my closest friends who own a 501c3 non-profit animal rescue - They are willing to help me get started on the paperwork and teach me exactly whom I would need to hire to help me launch - simultaneously - a 501c3 non-profit Animal Welfare Charitable Organization in which a certain percentage of all my sites proceeds would go straight towards the funding of mobile spay and neuter clinics where they are needed most [in specific hot spots down south where the canine and feline over-population is the highest & there seems to be the biggest lack of adequate veterinary care [that’s both affordable & meets acceptable standards in our eyes]