Hi, my name is Angela, and I’m creating this fundraiser on behalf of my dad and his beloved dog, River, who is battling aggressive cancer.

River is 10 years old and has been by my dad’s side through everything. She’s not just a pet—she’s his best friend, emotional support, and family. My dad is on a fixed disability income and has been doing everything he can to afford her care, but it’s becoming overwhelming.

River recently had surgery to remove a tumor, but sadly, it came back quickly. The tumor keeps growing every few days, and now it’s started opening up and oozing, which is heartbreaking and dangerous. She clearly needs more medical attention—possibly another surgery, wound care, medication, and ongoing treatment.

My dad has been paying off the first surgery in weekly installments, and now the additional costs are building up fast. We didn’t want to ask for help, and I carry a lot of guilt that I didn’t set this up sooner—but the situation has become urgent, and we can’t do this alone anymore.

River is being treated at La Vega Vet Clinic, and any donations will go directly toward her veterinary care there.

She still has so much love and life left in her. She’s a fighter, and we just want to give her a real chance.

If you can help in any way—by donating or even just sharing this—it would mean the world to us. Every little bit helps.

Thank you so much for reading and for supporting my dad and River. ❤️

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From Jac

Damn. That location is tough. Ideal scenario is doing radiation or chemo to kill as many of the cancer cells as possible then go in with surgery and take as much as you can. If you kill off some of the cells before surgery you have a higher chance of getting good margins. It's not likely to spread to other organs which is good news so if you can successfully get rid of what's left her prognosis wouldn't be terrible. But doing that wouldn't be cheap. I would estimate that chemo would be about $600/dose for 4 doses and radiation would be $4k. Surgery another $4k. That's all at TAMU though where things are expensive and all the specialists are there. He could consider going to Barks and Bliss in Belton- that vet trained with us and stays up to date on good treatments, including chemo. There's also a treatment called Stelfonta, but it's labeled for MCTs below the elbow. Might be able to find a vet to try it.. it would be less expensive than chemo + surgery or radiation + surgery. We don't carry it so I don't know the price for sure but I believe it would be roughly $800 for an injection. Sometimes it takes 2. I'm not sure if someone would administer it in that area though. Another option is to do chemo alone without additional surgery which wouldn't be curative but likely slow down the growth. There are 3 different drugs used for MCTs- cheapest option would run about $400/month with about a 40% response rate. Next would be about $800/month with a 45% response rate. The one considered the best is about $1200 per month with a 50% response rate. So no chemo is guaranteed to work. Radiation is better than chemo for MCTs but costs thousands. So options in order of preference are: Radiation + surgery, chemo + surgery, surgery alone (if a surgeon thinks they can get it all), radiation alone, chemo alone. Palliative care would be to keep her on steroids (prednisone), Benadryl and Prilosec for the rest of her life and let her go if she is suffering.