Puff Needs Emergency Surgery
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Hello Friends, Fam, Fam Friends, Acquaintances, Colleagues, Humans from all over,
My name is Ilyssa, and my best friend, her name is Puffina. She is a 9 month old Welsh Corgi from Maryland. Puff has been in my life since February of 2016. She is hands down the best thing to ever happen to me.
She's had a bit of a rough child hood, when she was just 10 weeks old her back paws went numb and she was unable to walk. After hours at the vet, countless blood tests and x-rays everything seemed normal. She spent the night at the HOPE center, and they saved her life, but it pretty much sucked my savings dry. She was only 10 weeks old when this happened, so I scrounged for every penny I had and I made it work. After all, she gives me unconditional love, so it's the least I could do.
Things progressed as normal, or so we thought. She jumped on everything, which meant she jumped off everything. At some point in her early childhood Puff sustained an injury to her Growth Plate on/below her Ulna, which has caused problems for her bones as her growth plates harden during their final stage (calcification...or something like that). There are plenty of other medical terms that I am not familiar with that describe how her Ulna and Humorous will not be able to join together unless she has corrective surgery to do so, but I will refrain and just hit you with the facts.
Puff will need surgery in the next few weeks. She needs the surgery before she gets too old, or the growth plate will harden and tear her elbow apart. If we don't do the surgery she will inevitably be in so much pain that she wouldn't be able to walk on it at all, resulting in some other form of surgery at some point down the line. She is only 9 months old, she needs this surgery to improve her quality of life because she has so much life still to live.
Ordinarily I think these platforms are intrusive and kind of wrong to ask people for money for things that are your responsibility....that was until I had a child who needed something that I was unable to give her. Yes I had money saved up to get her through this year...however there were multiple unexpected issues that costed more than I had anticipated. I wasn't sure this was a platform I wanted to use until the other night when one of my very best friends used a line against me that I often use, "Pride cometh before the fall". I don't want to sit here and ask you for money, but for my Puff I would do just about anything.
If you choose to donate, even $1 please do not do it anonymously because I would LOVE to send you a thank you card! It would mean so much to me, my family, and my bestest friend Empress Puffina. Puff has gotten my family through one of our most hectic and scary times and we owe it to her to try and do the same. Thank you all so much, I wish you nothing but peace and love.
-Ilyssa and Puff
My name is Ilyssa, and my best friend, her name is Puffina. She is a 9 month old Welsh Corgi from Maryland. Puff has been in my life since February of 2016. She is hands down the best thing to ever happen to me.
She's had a bit of a rough child hood, when she was just 10 weeks old her back paws went numb and she was unable to walk. After hours at the vet, countless blood tests and x-rays everything seemed normal. She spent the night at the HOPE center, and they saved her life, but it pretty much sucked my savings dry. She was only 10 weeks old when this happened, so I scrounged for every penny I had and I made it work. After all, she gives me unconditional love, so it's the least I could do.
Things progressed as normal, or so we thought. She jumped on everything, which meant she jumped off everything. At some point in her early childhood Puff sustained an injury to her Growth Plate on/below her Ulna, which has caused problems for her bones as her growth plates harden during their final stage (calcification...or something like that). There are plenty of other medical terms that I am not familiar with that describe how her Ulna and Humorous will not be able to join together unless she has corrective surgery to do so, but I will refrain and just hit you with the facts.
Puff will need surgery in the next few weeks. She needs the surgery before she gets too old, or the growth plate will harden and tear her elbow apart. If we don't do the surgery she will inevitably be in so much pain that she wouldn't be able to walk on it at all, resulting in some other form of surgery at some point down the line. She is only 9 months old, she needs this surgery to improve her quality of life because she has so much life still to live.
Ordinarily I think these platforms are intrusive and kind of wrong to ask people for money for things that are your responsibility....that was until I had a child who needed something that I was unable to give her. Yes I had money saved up to get her through this year...however there were multiple unexpected issues that costed more than I had anticipated. I wasn't sure this was a platform I wanted to use until the other night when one of my very best friends used a line against me that I often use, "Pride cometh before the fall". I don't want to sit here and ask you for money, but for my Puff I would do just about anything.
If you choose to donate, even $1 please do not do it anonymously because I would LOVE to send you a thank you card! It would mean so much to me, my family, and my bestest friend Empress Puffina. Puff has gotten my family through one of our most hectic and scary times and we owe it to her to try and do the same. Thank you all so much, I wish you nothing but peace and love.
-Ilyssa and Puff
Organizer
Ilyssa Beebe
Organizer
Olney, MD
