This is the diagnosis and the solution. Sorry I has to upload it sideways, it wouldn’t fit vertically..

My sweet American Pocket Bully, Honey, needs this LIFE SAVING Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy (TPLO) procedure done on both knees or she’ll continue to deteriorate (She just turned 3 years old on April 8th) and will have to be put down because of the pain within a year :( 
Honey is our FAMILY! She is the sweetest dog and has turned even the most afraid people of her breed into lovers of it. My kids, myself and my family will be absolutely devastated to lose another pet to a vet bill we can’t afford. Here’s our crappy story from the last couple years :( ..

We rang in 2019 New Year having just lost our young dog Jet to Cancer (he just turned 9, he was very active, he had no signs of aging other than a little weigh loss and his naps increased). One Saturday he was zooming across the yard acting perfectly fine and the next morning he could hardly stand, he definitely couldn’t walk and he was very lethargic. I rushed him to the emergency vet. His numbers were low, they didn’t know why, but they were going to stabilize him and start doing test. He obviously had to stay the night so I paid 2k, beg for them to fix him as I ugly crying and scared to death cause my best friend is in the back dying and I feel completely helpless and I know he’s scared too :( I get in the car to make a couple phone calls in the vets parking lot when they called me 10 minutes later to say they did an ultrasound and he had a big tumor in his belly. What he’d have to go thru to even just get better just to try and do surgery to remove the tumor and then do chemo if it was cancer which they believed it was, wasn’t fair to him. So I had to say goodbye that day to my best friend and had to do the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do besides put him down was tell my kids and family the devastating news. Everyone that knew him, loved him. It was a loss a lot of people felt :(  I was beside myself.. The unexpectedness and the rapid decline was the shocking part about it which made it hard to except and come to terms with. I’m not going to sugar coat it, it was traumatic. Total punch in the gut and we were just feeling lost without him..

My friend had an eight month old puppy (Honey), who has separation anxiety and wasn’t doing good being alone all day with my friends work schedule. I had already babysat Honey for a week when Jet was still alive and I fell in love with her! We ALL did! Jet wouldn’t leave her alone <3 He was absolutely in LOVE! SadlyJet passed only a couple weeks after Honey went back home because my friend got back from vaca, but I truly believe that week with Honey here was one of the best weeks of Jets life!
When Jet passed, there was such a void in our home. I couldn’t replace Jet, but I missed my buddy so bad and wanted a dog to love again :( And so did my kids. Well, that’s when Honey came into our lives for good <3 My friends other dog she had before she got Honey, couldn’t stand Honey being all over him constantly and my friend just didn’t have the time for Honey. I know, sounds cliché right? Everyone always hears that and thinks “excuse!”.
No. When I tell you, Honey needs to be touching someone someone 24/7, I’m being serious. She is the most loving dog I’ve ever met! She also has anxiety and is the biggest scaredy-cat you’d ever meet.. Someone is almost always home at my house! We had that overwhelming void that needed to be filled with that overwhelming love that Honey gives and needs back <3 Awesome thing was Jet already gave his approval when he was alive. My friend knew Honey would get the attention and secure feeling she needed from having people around her constantly here, so she selfLESS’ly rehomed Honey to us!! My friend still gets to watch Honey grow and gets to see her whenever she wants and Honey is getting the special needs attention my friend couldn’t give her that Honey NEEDS to thrive, sadly because of her work schedule. We were a perfect fit!!
Sure in her puppyhood (1-3years old, the whole time I’ve had her actually lol) shes chewed up my $1200 vintage Victorian couch just cause I left her alone in the living room for 30 min to take a shower when I first got her. Anxiety! Sure she has a tiny obsession with eating crayons (at least her poop is pretty when I pooper scoop it out of the yard ), and sure she has eaten every pair of shoes we’ve ever left on the floor. Uugghh.. After about 3687 pees on the floor and thousands and thousands of dollars lost (im not kidding, literally thousands) to her teething stage (even tho she had a million toys), she is now fully potty trained and the chewing has gone down to maybe one thing every 2 weeks, give or take. I noticed if I bring something new into the house and i specifically tell her “NO Nibbles!” she will leave whatever it is, alone. She’s getting so much better!!! <3 She just turned 3years old on April 8th and she is absolutely turning into the most amazing young lady! She’s super smart! She’s loving! Always on guard, I can’t even tickle the kids without her investigating, making sure everything is ok and no ones getting hurt LOL also she wants in on playtime! I can’t even LOOK at or baby talk another living thing in my house without her whining for attention LOL She has brought the new life and love into our lives that we needed to help us heal from losing Jet so sudden.  
A year after we get Honey, spring of 2020, tragically! we had to put down our 4yr old cat Sierra, (who FINALLY just warmed up to Honey and was becoming best friends), because she got an infection  in her belly and within 3 days she went from normal to throwing up a couple times to dying! She had a habit of chewing on cords. All cords. Didn’t even matter if there were plugged in! We tried everything to stop the behavior. I even had everyone only charged anything in my room and I kept my door shut at all times so she couldn’t eat all our charger anmore. So stubborn her moved onto bigger and better things like HDMI cords and such. The emergency vet said a wire must have punctured her somewhere inside and got infected and because animals don’t show sickness a lot till it’s too late, by the time Sierra showed signs of being uncomfortable it was too late :( Just to TRY to get her healthy enough for surgery was over $2500 and IF she DID make it to a healthy enough state to do surgery, the surgery would’ve started at 4 thousand and range to 7 thousand because it was “exploratory” and they didn’t know what they would find or if it was fixable. So once again, because everything was so uncertain and she was suffering, I had to unexpectedly put down another super sweet, young animal that my kids loved tremendously, a little over a year after our Jet passed.. 

NOW Here we are a year after burying Sierra, we’re dealing with Honey needing life saving surgery at just 3 years old! :(

Unfortunately the situation now is, since last year Honey has been in a lot of pain which has led her to miss out on a lot of her puppyhood :(  After spending over 1 thousand dollars at her primary Vet, they misdiagnosed her with Hip Dysplasia and put her on meds she didn’t need. I was devastated thinking my then only 2 year old-almost 3 year old dog was in so much pain because of HIP DYSPLASIA, and pain meds were doing nothing!! I knew if I didn’t do something she wouldn’t live very long in the pain she was in. So I took it upon myself (since my vets only recommendation was to just keep her in meds till she died) to call every animal surgeon in New England, I made the closest appointment I could and drove over two hours to one of only three Animal Hospitals in New England that does Hip Replacements (which is also the only one out of the three thats even booking appointments right now) to get a second opinion. After actually sedating her (which her primary did not do), doing a thorough exam and radiographs, they found out she DOES NOT have Hip Dysplasia!! Its not even her hips that are bothering her, its her knees!! They are swollen and torn on the inside :( 
As frustrating as this was that her primary Vet completely dropped the ball on this one by not even suggesting seeing a surgeon and just putting her on a lifetime of pain meds and joint supplements with basically a death sentence of Hip Dysplasia.. and giving us all heart attacks cause I knew IF I didn’t get her a double hip replacement with this diagnosis (easily a 14thousand dollar surgery!) She wouldn’t last another couple years with the pain she was in.. I’m BEYOND grateful that life has given us a MIRACLE that she WAS misdiagnosed and the actual problem she has can be 90-95% FIXED with this surgery!!! Unfortunately it cost me another thousand to find out the correct diagnoses because the other Vet dropped the ball ;( 

The TPLO surgery is $9000 after everything :( 
but SHE CAN BE FIXED!! She can get her WHOLE LIFE BACK!! Its NOT a MAYBE!! its a 90-95% recovery that she’ll be a normal young active dog again without paying for it dearly with constant pain from doing one zoomy :( She is an amazing soul and DESERVES to live a long life! The happiness she gives others is worth every penny to save her life!!
Also.. I can’t bury another fur child guys :( and my kids don’t deserve to feel the heartache of another pet passing so close to the others :( 
Unfortunately though my savings has taken a HUGE hit between all these previous vet bills, life, raising 2 kids and being out of work last year due to Covid..  I just spent 2 thousand that I didn’t have just to diagnose her properly! :( I never ask for help, but I’m DESPERATE to keep my furbaby so I’m putting myself out there and asking for help!! Anything will help!! Even if you can’t donate, PLEASE SHARE! Maybe someone you know, can. We thank you in advance from the bottom of our hearts!! Please help me save Honeys life!!