Help Poppy Receive Life Saving Surgery

I am setting up this campaign to help an absolutely amazing person that came into my life when my own dog needed life saving treatment. She was his nurse in the ICU and fate seems to have connected us. I won't go into all the things that make Lee Ann one of the most empathetic and caring people I have ever met, but trust me when I tell you that she is one in a million. She really helped us in ways that make me feel fate must've brought us together and now it is my turn to try and help her. :)

Here's the story behind Poppy:

"Poppy came into our lives very unexpectedly. Prior to her coming into our home, we adopted a bulldog from a rescue group in PA. She was a patient at the veterinary teaching hospital I work at, Cornell University. She had a disorder called pulmonic stenosis and surgery to repair it. About 6 months later I got a call from the rescue that they had another dog that had the same heart disorder.

Poppy was taken in as a foster and initially had a procedure done to attempt to repair her heart called a balloon valvuloplasty. Unfortunately it wasn’t successful. The rescue doesn’t have the ability to pay for a $9k procedure for a stent placement (next step), so we have decided to officially adopt Poppy and get her the surgery she needs. Without it, she has less than a few years to live.

Poppy is our “Marley and Me” dog. She was a naughty puppy. Destroyed everything, had no manners, couldn’t be trained to save her life, and potty training was a nightmare. But she got us through so much. We unexpectedly lost our bulldog and she innately knew how to calm our broken hearts. Then we lost my mom and my mother in law. We were wrecked. But Poppy became a silent therapist for us all.

We had the sole intention to be a great foster home for Poppy. With her medical disorder, we knew that we couldn’t afford her care. The rescue wanted her close to Cornell, so we wanted to help. Once they wouldn’t do the next surgery which means life/death, we had to step up."