Help Milkshake make it through treatments

 

On the night of November 28th, Milkshake was showing signs of slowing down and not eating. He is usually a very playful 3 year old cat, plays fetch like a young puppy or something, but when we started to notice he wouldn't eat, he began to vomit. The vomiting progressed until the point where he was only putting out white/yellow foam, and a quick google search told us that was not a good sign at all and he needed to be taken to a Vet immediately. The only issue was that this was Arkansas on a Sunday, and if you live here you know that everything, yes even Veterinary clinics, close on Sundays...so our options were extremely limited. We had to take him to a clinic that was 40 minutes away.  When we got there, we were told we had a wait time of 6 hours just to see him. We were there from 3:00pm to 7:00pm before we decided maybe we could save money by holding out for one more day, so we went home. I sat in the living room with him until 2:00am, watching him collapse in his litter box, I picked him up out of it and tried to lay him down, all while he was too lethargic to move.     Considering we were pretty sure it was Milkshake's final moments that night, we decided we had no choice and brought him back to the emergency clinic.  After about 2 hours, a nurse came out and told us he had an extreme blockage in his bladder that would cause it to rupture that night if we didn't pay for them to immediately sedate him and put a catheter in him. This procedure would cost him $1200, we said yes without thinking as this cat is practically our son. My girlfriend was thankfully approved for something called "Care Credit" and approved for $1,800, an amount we thought wouldn't really be touched. We were wrong.
 
At 6am on November 29th, I was to come pick him up and bring him to a local Vet that could provide after care for him, as they really don't want any old regular person caring after an animal with a catheter, which is completely understandable, however After care costs about $200 a day, and they were saying he could be there for over a week. So now we had to pre-pay for at least 3 days they were asking for ($600), and now we're already almost at our credit limit with no extra money to pay for care. He has been there since, the video here is of us visiting him Monday night, he is highly drugged up and very VERY agitated by his catheter (I do not blame him).
 
Now it's Tuesday and we're being told that he's been actively removing it from himself, which is really bad because he will simply bleed out if that keeps happening, and every time he does it, they have to re-sedate him and put it in again, costing an additional $600 every time he does it...you see where this is going. He's managed to do this 2 times since we visited him yesterday, each time costing the same.
 
I'm not going to sugar coat it, this cat is our son. I would be so heartbroken if the ONLY reason my son dies is because I didn't have the money to help keep him alive...so now I am asking you, the general public, to please help us in any single way you can. Any donation matters to this cause no matter how large or small, and I just want my baby boy back home and safe. If you can't donate, share this, share it with everyone, friends, family, celebrities, anyone. I believe I've set the goal to accommodate the current costs spent and allow room for any further complications/foods/medicines we need to pay for that might arise in the coming days. I am just scared the only reason I lose my cat is because I wasn't wealthy enough to keep him alive.
 
If you've made it this far, then thank you for giving us the time of day, any donations or shares of this fundraiser are immensely appreciated.
 
Thank you for being a friend,
Harrison Tanner Dean, Cat Dad