Help Raise Funds for Mia’s Heart Surgery…

In April of 2025, Mia began to experience a series of collapsing/fainting episodes. After expensive ER visits, treatments, and trips to the cardiologist, Mia was diagnosed with transient myocarditis (an inflammation of her heart). The main symptom she was experiencing was tachycardia, or an abnormally fast heartbeat. Mia’s heart has gotten up to 260 bpm, which is fast for a little cat…

Mia was placed on atenolol (a beta blocker) under the care of a pet cardiologist. The treatment seemed to help her up until about a week ago when she had 10 collapses in a row, followed by panting, foaming at the mouth, and seizures. We rushed her to the ER and were given a bill for $5,000 of treatment, or were told that we could consider euthanasia at any time. My heart BROKE for my little girl. I cannot imagine life without her. Mia is only 10 and has so much life in her still…

Luckily, she pulled through and was taken off of her atenolol, but they still had no answers for us, so she was referred to her cardiologist after being stable for a few days. Her cardiologist put a Holter monitor on her (like a portable EKG) to get a more accurate reading of her heart and what it was doing…

While Mia has been seemingly doing well this past week, the results aren’t good. Mia has officially been diagnosed with tachycardia, but also has been diagnosed with a high second-degree AV block. Essentially, her little heart is beating way too fast, and it’s also missing beats and unable to produce a beat on its first (or up to sixth in her case) try. This can be extremely dangerous to her and cause these collapsing episodes and be fatal. Unfortunately, the ONLY treatment option is having a pacemaker implanted. If not, her heart will continue to beat this way and eventually fail…

Words cannot describe how upset I am. Especially because I am unable to financially afford this surgery for my baby. We were quoted an estimate of $8,000 for the surgery alone, not including check-ups, echocardiograms, and our current vet bill debt.

I’m not really one to ask for help — I like to do things on my own — and this has been such a hard decision to make, but I have to at least try to do something for my sweet baby. If you can donate, or share and get the word out to encourage others to donate, it would mean the world to me. It would save my Mia-Cat’s life.

Thank you if you read this far. I’m not losing hope on my girl yet. She’s a strong little trooper and I’m going to keep fighting for her.