Help Carlos Beat Cancer
I'm Carlos' mom Carrie Petrullo.. most of you know that I adopted Carlos in November 2017 from Puerto Rico.. he was abandoned on the street.. I saw his rescue posted on Instagram and fell in love instantly.. he was on bad shape when I got him and heartworm positive.. so it took a long time to get him where he is now... hes been doing amazing.. alot of his hair grew back.. he beat heartworm.. hes been living his best life.. Things with his health have taken a bad turn.. a couple of months ago I noticed a small lump on his lip.. it got big pretty quick.. took him on the vet and she said it needed to come off.. so I scheduled the surgery appt for March 18th.. surgery went good and the lump was sent out to the pathologist.. 4 days I got the call I really wasnt expecting.. my Carlos has cancer..the tumor taken off was an aggressive malignant melanoma... aka skin cancer.. I was devastated to say the least.. he went back on Monday the 25th to have chest xrays done (which came back great)and a sample taken from his lymph nodes to make sure that the cancer cells haven't invaded those lymph nodes.. we schedules a consult with the oncologist to see where we go from here.. more surgery and chemo could possibly be in our future. The cost of just the consult alone on April 18th is $200 just to talk to the doctor. My house is in foreclosure and set to be auctioned off on June 24th.. we will be moving back to the east coast. I'm a single mom with 3 small kids ages 6 and under..its hard.. but Carlos is my family and I will do whatever I have to do to make sure he has a fighting chance to kick cancers ass.. hes a warrior. Hes survived so much.. we fought like hell together and I'm ready for war against cancer.. I know he can beat it.. so please if you can help us or share this fundraiser so people can see that would be great too.. Like always I'm so grateful for all of you.. thank you for always helping us.. and loving my Carlos as much as I do.. #CARLOSSTRONG