Layla's medical fund

This is our recue pup Layla. She is a 3 year old boxer/bloodhound and we just love her to pieces. We initalially fostered her, but when people started to express interest in her, we realized we couldn't give her up. She had worked her way into our hearts and family. She lives a very active life with my husband and I and our coonhound mix, Bear. 

She has had a handful of medical issues in her short life (she came to us with heartworm, but made a full recovery with treatment and cut her foot severly playing in the woods and needed surgury), but we have always supported her through them and sought the best care. 

Last Monday morning, my husband took her and our other dog for a half hour romp in the woods. It was supposed to be a warm day, so he decided to take them early to avoid the heat. They ran around the woods for about a half hour. Each dog was fine when they got back to the car and drank a bottle of water before getting in. Once they got home (about 10 minutes), Layla couldn't get out of the car or stand. My husband immediately called the vet and they advised him in cooling her down. She got progressively less responsive and he called again- they told him to keep cooling her. Within the hour, she was unresponsive and he called them back and told them he was bringing her in. Our regular vet took blood and started an IV and found she had very low platelet levels and sent her straight to our emergency vet. They are treating her aggressively for heat stroke. She is responding to treatment, but it is a complex thing to treat in dogs and can be fatal. My husband is beating himself up over this, but she seemed fine and the after a 10 minute car ride, she was in a completely different state. The vet said this is often the way it happens with dogs that get heatstroke while exercising and that we did all the right things once he noticed a problem.

Unfortunately we did not have pet insurance and within her first 2 days of care, we have spent over $7000. They expect that she will need several more days of intensive care. She is showing signs of recovery and even has begun to wag her tail when we visit, but staying ahead of infection and organ dammage is taking its toll. 

We are committed to helping her recover, but the expense is becoming very worrisome. We joke that we recently purchased our first home FOR THE DOGS. Our landlord sold the property we were living in unexpectedly and we had trouble finding another rental that would let us have our dogs. Giving them up was just not an option- a dog is a family member is our household, so we scraped together the funds to buy a house in less than a month. Just last week,  we had to deplete the small savings we had to buy a car after ours stopped working. This has left us in a very tight spot. We are quickly nearing our credit card limits paying for Layla's care and the vet expects that she will need several more thousand dollars and at least a week's worth of intensive care to make a recovery. We can't give up on her and we are selling everything we can, but it is just not enough. Any help is appreciated. I promise, we will pay it forward.