I'm Tina. I have 2 Labrador retrievers named Remy and Nala. They both are just 5yrs old. As labs will do, they play hard and love you harder. Unfortunately, Nala has had a rough 10 months. I work for a veterinarian office and Nala became very sick for over a week back in July 2025. I had taken her in to the clinic and we ran several tests to come up with no definite answers for her illness. She needed more than we could do for her. After 2 days of becoming increasingly worse, we all decided to take her to an emergency clinic. This clinic brushed her off and said they couldn't find anything wrong. I picked her up after 24hrs with no answers and took her to another emergency clinic about an hour away. She was hospitalized for a few days and found she had ulcers bursting internally. During her examination, the vet came across Nala having a 100% tear of her CCL (ACL in humans). Once she was healed from her ulcers/ illness, we schedule a CCL repair on her left rear leg with the orthopedic surgeon. It was a lot for Nala and myself, but over 8-10 weeks of therapy, no playing, running, or jumping, she was 95% healed. She got the clear to start running again at about 4 months postop. Within the next 5 months, she started limping on her right rear leg, and come to find out she completely tore her other leg at 100%. We are now in January and going in for another CCL repair. If you know Nala, no matter what I do to keep her calm, sedated, and quiet, she is going to find a way to not be any of these. Within a month post op, I called the surgeon because I knew she did something wrong with that leg. The diagnosis was that she broke the screws for the plate in the earlier surgery and broke her tibia and femur. NOT a good diagnosis!! We scheduled another surgery within the next few days and she was hospitalized again. I was putting all my faith in this surgeon. We discussed this would be a very difficult and long surgery with the possibility of no repair and possible amputation. I was devasted and heartbroken.

When the surgeon gave me the news she tentatively repaired the bones, CCL ligament, and leg, I was over the moon. No amputation need at present. We are now 4 days post op and she is cage bound except to go outside to potty. I come home every day during lunch to administer medications (5-6 total) and therapy on the leg as I have done with the other 2 previous surgeries. It's a lot of long days, sleepless nights, and working on adrenalin that is keeping me going. Nala and Remy are my world, my babies, and I am doing and would do anything and everything for these two!! I have never asked for help like this before, but we need it. Financially this has drained me. I work two jobs already and when I'm not there, I'm home with my girls. If you know me, you know how imprtant these two are to me. If you could help in any way, All three of us would be eternally grateful. I've always been proud to be able to afford my animals, but these past 10 months have become too much all at once and we still have at least 3-4 more months more. Thank you for considering my story.