Help DadCat Overcome Life-Threatening Hernia

This is my Homeless Soul mate Cat, DadCat. He has been in my life since hw was around a year old and he is now going to be 4. He has always been a tri pod cat, which as I'm sure you can understand comes with some difficulties that he has to face every single day. So I do what I can to make his life just a little better

He and his "wife" MomCat are/were strays that lived in my neighborhood at a house that they were lucky enough too be able too occupy but which did not claim them as their pets. So I have continually every other night gone too feed DadCat, his Two sons, and Momcat as well as their other litters who I have found homes for and kept one as my house cat. Dad doesn't have any one in the world except my gf and i, and he is the most loving and kind TomCat I've ever met

He doesn't spray, he doesn't fight, he let's any strays that might need a friend in the streets come and eat with them and never acts out at them or acts aggressive. He is the kindest soul I've ever met. Tonight when I went too feed him, he could not walk over to me, and he fell to his side and screwed out when he did so, and as my heart was breaking I got to him and saw what was causing him such pain. I know now that it is a hernia that was caused by some kind of serious strain that he underwent being stuck in something and trying to get out is what my emergency told me. And in order to save his life, he needs to undergo a very very expensive surgery, for which i do not have enough money for. The surgery itself is going to cost a total of $2300 with the aftercare and hospitalization being at an emergency clinic, and I need another $1700 dollars to be able too help save the life of my friend. And that is me giving every single dollar I have to my name at rhw moment, groceries be damned! So I thought maybe reaching out to the tripod cat community and just cat lovers in general could maybe help. Anything at all is much appreciated! Even just a dollar, if evrry person who reads this could give me $2 I surely would have enough to pay the costs of his life saving procedure. Please, consider helping to save a soul who cannot help himself. Thank you for taking the time too read this and God bless you and your fur babies!