Dear Friends,
This is Lily. She is our beautiful 3 yr old Bullmastiff who adores
people. Lily needs your help! She is in liver failure and we her
family are unable to pay her ongoing vet bills to help her get better.
A little about Lily. She is an AKC registered Red Bullmastiff. We
drove 18 hrs straight to Kentucky and back to bring her home to us.
And up until now she has been a healthy happy dog. And this is where
our journey begins...... A few days ago Lily stopped eating her dog
food. For those of u that have never met Lily this is not normal. For
Lily has always been, Jokingly, our garbage can dog. She eats
everything edible or not. We started giving her pumpkin and rice baby
food to help keep food in her. She was still drinking water and acting
normal. On
Sunday night, Sept 14 Lily started vomiting. At first it was foam and
yellow bile. By Monday morning it was dark fecal like vomit. We
immediately called the vet. Seeing her sick made the world come
crashing down around us. Our family has been struggling for sometime
now. Money is tight.....very tight. The idea of vet bills made us sick
to our stomachs. How are we going to do this if it it turned out to be
something serious. I was frantic. I called every vet I could think of
for an option of payments, or work. The only help I got was one that
would Euthanize for free. EUTHANIZE........ Without knowing what was
even wrong? No that was not an option. We decided, we had not payed
mortgage yet, that the mortgage money would be used for her bills and
headed to the vet. Some of u may be thinking how irresponsible of us,
but our animals are part of our family. And without her there would be
a hole in all of our hearts. The vet came in. She examines Lily and
says this does not look good. We want to do ex-rays and bloodwork. I
immediately let her know we can not afford much. Ex rays, bloodwork,
and exam comes to a little over $300 let's start there. She takes Lily
and leaves me sitting in that exam room with 2 1yr olds wondering how
did it ever come to this. The vet returns with bad news. Lily's liver
and spleen are enlarged. Her proteins are dangerously low, her heart
rate is high, she is running a fever. Her bilirubin is off the charts.
The vet suspects Lepto, but cannot rule out cancer or other possible
infections. She recommends going to mvs for blood transfusion( min
$2500 referral) , and she needs hospital if fluids, penicillin, and an
ultrasound. My heart sinks into my stomach, this is the end. There is
no money. Do I have the courage and strength to fight a possibly
loosing battle? I look at Lily, for the first time on this awful day
her ears perk up as she stares at me. I remember a moment this morning
when one of our twin girls stopped before getting in the car for
school to lay with Lily and give her a hug and kiss. I yelled for her
to get in the car( I was frantic to get back and take Lily in). She
says" mom I needed to say goodbye to Lily bear". I almost
deprived her of her possible last moment with her dog. How could I not
fight for this amazing animal. I ask the vet what do we need to do to
get her through the next 24hrs. She gives her an anti-nausea med to
stop the vomiting($125) and a penicillin injection($25)to help with
infection and calls in a script for amoxicillin. She tells me she will
need both again tomorrow, and if not starting to perk up the Iv fluids
and possible blood platelets as well will be necessary, and they only
do the blood transfusion at mvs. ($2500) This brings us to why I am
writing this. We are in over our heads. Lily needs your help, We need
your help. We do not have the money to go back tomorrow, we need to
replace the money we spent today to keep a roof over our heads. There
will be many challenges to come in Lily's journey for survival. One
that may possibly be for the remainder of her life if it is cancer. It
will be an uphill battle to get her better but we are willing to fight
until all our resources are empty. If you decide to donate to Lily's
fight for life fund today please know all money will be going to her
care. We will be eternally grateful for any help we receive to give
Lily the chance to hang on long enough for us to save her. Sincerely,
Christy Dusendang Sent from my iPad
