Help pay for Stubby’s medical bills ($25000 plus)

Stubby has just survived an emergency cancerous liver mass removal surgery, and a separate surgery to install a pacemaker in order to help his heart work properly

Hi there.

I’m the owner of Mister Stubbs.

Shortly after I rescued him, Mister Stubbs was falsely diagnosed with Addison’s Disease by his vet after he collapsed multiple times.

I spent close to 13 grand on medication and numerous 6 monthly compulsory trips to that vet for bloods and new scripts:

Eventually we changed Vets and found out about the misdiagnosis.

Sadly Stubby has had a rough trot and due to the prolonged use of steroids for the misdiagnosis, he developed a liver mass.

While we were conducting investigation into his welfare and the liver mass, we discovered he has lung thrombosis and Cushings disease (which is the opposite of Addison’s Disease) - both conditions can also often be attributed to the prolonged use of steroids.

A little over a month ago, we then discovered Stubby had an AV block is his heart and his heart was operating at 40 beats pm instead of the usual 120 bpm

On the 13th April - once the Cushings disease was under control, we were to place Stubbs under anaesthetic to do a CT scan on his liver mass and lungs to see how they are tracking (and a temporary pacemaker was installed to allow this to happen)

The lungs looked good and the liver mass had gotten a bit smaller in size, and it was considered a safe option to install a permanent pacemaker to extend his life so that he could live it out as he usually would. Without the pacemaker his life expectancy was under 4 months. It was a success but the bill was just under $120000.

The liver mass at this time was judged to be ok and might need to be removed at a later date.

However on Sunday 23rd April, Stubbs fell drastically ill. He wouldn’t eat, could barely walk and was in a lot of pain. He was rushed to emergency whereby they discovered the liver mass was bleeding into the liver and he required life saving surgery to remove the liver mass and the part of the liver that it was located in. It was a potentially life threatening surgery but the surgeon was able to successfully removed all that was required.

This bill amounted to just under $13 000 and Stubbs was discharged on the 26th April from critical care with a mild fever.

On the 27th April he was readmitted to emergency with a high fever.

It was then that we discovered that Stubby had gone over his policy cap (which only had 9 grand remaining before these two surgeries) and that we wouldn’t be getting even a third of it back. 

I would be very grateful for any donations towards his medical bills, as I have so far spent over $28 000 on this little dog in under two weeks with more medical bills for him on the horizon.

Unfortunately I am the sole owner of Stubby which means I only have my own income to finance and pay for his medical bills. I have no children of my own and he’s my little shadow that follows me everywhere and is like a child to me.

Here is a photo of Stubby a week after his pacemaker surgery (you can see his stitches) and a few days before his emergency liver surgery