She needs you. Please help stop her pain and suffering.

My name is Gabriel and this is Lucy. Lucy desperately needs your help. I'm afraid her life depends on it. The last eight months have been devastating to our lives and left me unable to provide her with the medical attention she urgently needs right now. She is in constant pain and it's killing her. It takes more of her every day. You can see the pain in her eyes. She has so much life left in her and watching her suffer so much, seeing it taken, unable to do anything is unbearable. I would take her pain if I could

It's starting to take its toll on her health mentally and physically. She needs help. I can't do it alone, but we can with your help. You will be the difference she needs to make it through this, get better, and give her back her life. She still has so much left to live. She is such a wonderful dog and a loving, loyal friend. She deserves better than this.

Lucy has developed severe stomach problems and acid reflux so bad that the smell of stomach acid fills the room when she lays down to try and sleep. If she does fall asleep, it starts to fill her mouth and it sounds like she's drowning in her own stomach acid with every breath she takes. It's truly one of the most awful sounds I've ever heard in my life. I've tried everything I could, but nothing has helped. It just keeps getting worse. I'm scared it's something more than just a problem with food or diet. I'm desperate, and the help she needs is completely out of my reach.

This past year has taken everything from me and left me with nothing to help Lucy. Unexpected medical problems left me disabled, unable to work, and needing major surgery. Because of it, I lost my job, and then just before this last Christmas, Lucy and I lost our home, too. We were forced to the streets broken with no money and nowhere to go. I scraped up every last penny I had and bought a small camper trailer that's in awful condition and barely livable, but better than nothing and home for the foreseeable future. I still need surgery, but these living conditions and Lucy's health keep me from moving forward.

To say Lucy means the world to me is an understatement. She's been my best friend and partner in crime for the last 10 years. I don't know what I would do without her. Knowing she's healthy, happy, and safe would lift more weight off my chest than you could ever imagine and let me work on getting us out of this mess. Because right now the heartache and weight of this every day sitting on top of me like it is makes it hard to just breathe.

She can't do it herself, and for the first time in my life, I can't do it for her either, not without you. Anything you can do is welcome, even if it's just sharing this with people you know. It could make a tremendous difference, and I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart.

If you are still here reading this, thank you. I feel like I overshared and probably did. But I think understanding the whole situation lets you see how far your help goes, helping so many different things under the surface that you'd otherwise never know the true difference you made.

Everything donated is for Lucy's diagnosis, treatment, and whatever else she needs to hopefully recover from this and maintain it.

My back surgery is becoming more urgent every day and somehow needs to happen soon. Because the surgery is serious and tomorrow is never promised. I'm making my mother the beneficiary of the funds that come from this, so that if anything happens to me or I'm unable to take care of what Lucy needs. She will be able to continue doing that for me and Lucy will still get the help she needs.