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Help Stannis with medical bills

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Hi all. For those that know us, know that asking for help with anything is difficult for us. However, recently Stannis had a medical emergency that was far more expensive than we were prepared for. His first emergency visit was in December for an upper respiratory infection and cost us $2500. That used up all the funds we had and then some. Fast forward to last week and we had to take him in once again. This time though it started with a regular vet visit where he ended up getting an antibiotic and fluids. They couldn't find the source of the issue but figured this would knock it out. That was a Monday and was with a vet we hadn't seen before because our usual vet was closed for the holiday. On Tuesday his condition had worsened so we took him to our regular vet, but weren't able to be seen until 5pm. The vet indicated Stannis was in emergency distress and due to the time we would need to take him to the emergency vet clinic. We transferred him there and spent most of the night trying to figure out what was wrong and what options we had. By that evening, and several thousand dollars later, it had come down to either allowing them to put him to sleep, putting him on emergency care in the hospital (which would be $5-8k more) , or taking him home and letting him have his last days there. We made the hard decision to take him home and I made an appointment for Saturday for an at home passing.
Then, on Friday all of our other cats began showing the same symptoms as Stannis. I immediately took them in that afternoon to their regular vet, Stannis included, and begged them to find what was wrong as we couldn't lose all our babies. The vet, Dr Silver quickly worked out a plan to treat the 2 with the least symptoms and send them home. For Stannis she kept him overnight, administered multiple different injections and cleared his bladder and cathed it.
I canceled the at home passing appointment in hopes that I wouldn't need to reschedule.
Saturday morning we received a call from the vet indicating that Stannis was a new man. He was eating and drinking on his own again after nearly 2 weeks of not. We picked him up that evening, still with his cath in, and brought him home. On Monday he went back in to have his cath removed. Since then, he has been eating and drinking. He has also started getting his voice back which he lost at the beginning of his distress.
We are not out of the woods yet, there is a chance that this was only a temporary fix, but we are hopeful he will be with us for several more years.

Unfortunately all of those vet visits, emergency visits, medications, overnight stays, etc add up. If you can help in any way we, and Stannis, will greatly appreciate it.
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Allison Lovecraft
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Las Vegas, NV

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