 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. A benefit walk is being held on Saturday, August 20th to raise money for one young boy to receive a cardiac service dog. Aberson was born with a litany of heart defects making him pacemaker dependent. His parents hope that, in the event that his pacemaker fails, the service dog will be able to alert them to any problems Aberson may be having. When I was pregnant with him, we found out that he had some heart defects. His first surgery was February 8th of 2021 when he was eight days old. And then he had a surgery January 20th of this year and January 31st, which is his birthday. So he's had three open heart surgeries. Service animals are more expensive than one may think. The dog they have picked out for Aberson is over $5,000 without the additional cost of traveler training. So we actually looked at several different places. The one we went with, they are $5,500. She's been in business doing this for 30 years. And we have almost reached our goal. We're about $1,300 away from the goal. And then all the additional training that the dog will need, we're going to pay for because we'll have to travel. The dog will take one to two years to fully be trained. But by the end of this year, we will have the dog from him after the basic training. And then the trainer will come to Pikeville and do some training. We'll go back to Frankfurt and do some training. The dog chose him when we went last month to, she had three dogs under observation for him. And one just was all about him. She loved him. She wouldn't leave his side. We named her Striker. And we can't wait to get to go see her again for our training later this year. And then get the dog home with him. The benefit walk to raise money for Aberson's cardiac service dog will be held at Bob Amos on Saturday, August 20th at 10 a.m. For more information about Aberson and his journey, you can visit the Aberson's Heart Warrior journey Facebook page. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.