Frankie’s Friends helped Winston receive lifesaving surgery for a hernia repair. This is a note from his family. “I thank you with my whole heart for saving Winston’s life! Your assistance makes my heart swell and jump for joy. I am so, so grateful. Winston means the world to me. I live alone and he is my constant companion. We fall asleep together and wake up together. He brings me a kind of happiness I never knew existed. He speaks to me with those big, beautiful, sweet eyes of his. I love him so much. And to see him in such pain, having lost his energetic personality while coping with this horrific hernia—it tears at my heart. But to know that there are good, kind, generous, and loving people in the world like you, who want to help save his life gives me hope. I thank you a thousand times over. God bless you! God bless you!” — Winston's Family Comment