Hope for Charlie
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I am trying to fundraise some money to help cover the costs and give as much hope as possible for Charlie to recover at the London Regional Veterinary Emergency and Referral Hospital where she is currently admitted and staying at. The bills are beyond what I can afford on my own and are accumulating and reaching the upper limit of my credit card. I desperately need help and charity from others to give her the best odds at recovering and having a good quality of life afterwards.
This all happened so suddenly. She was displaying odd behaviour monday night such as sitting calmly during her bath. Tuesday morning she was pacing back and forth in the bathroom while i was getting ready for work and wouldn't leave the bathroom. When I got home after work her head was going in circles and bobbing all around and at that time i knew she needed to get to a vet right away. I thought maybe she got into something as this all seemed so quick or maybe she had a stroke or something. I rushed her to her family vet who told me they didn't have the facilities to take care of her and to get her to the animal hospital right away. By the time I drove the ten minutes there her body was limp. When I handed her over I thought that was the last time I would ever hold her in my arms. When she was first admitted they had asked if it was at all possible she had ate something she shouldn't of and if her condition came on quickly or had been gradual. I told them she had been acting a little wierd and gradually exhibiting odder behaviour over the past 24 hours.
The hospital needed a $400 deposit just to look at her and get things going and it was estimated that it would be around 700 for the visit. They got back to me a couple hours later and told me she was in critical care and needed to stay the night as she was on oxygen and an iv and would die if taken off them. She wasn't able to breathe on her own or oxygenate her little body. They now needed $700 for a deposit and quoted me at around $1200-$1500 for the overnight care and stay. The next day it was strongly recommended that she stay at the hospital as they were still figuring things out and giving her treatment but that she was stable enough they would release her to me but would need carefull monitoring for the next 24 hours. I was quoted at 1500-1700 with a 75% deposit required upfront. I simply didn't have the money on hand and took her home.
With the help of some friends, she was carefully monitored and when things worsened, we took her right back to emerge. She was put back on oxygen and an iv drip and they needed a $900 deposit upfront and quoted me at $1700-$2000 for the next 24 hours of care or that she could be humanely euthanized. They told me that she was in a very bad condition, even with the care there was no guarantees she would pull through, recover or what her life might be like afterwards. They said they would know a lot more after seeing how she responds to care over the next 24 hours. The other option they gave me was to have her humanely euthanized. I just couldn't accept that as an option at that moment and felt she deserved a fighting chance and the doctor's more time to figure out what exactly was wrong. I didn't want money to be the deciding factor in whether she lived or died that night and so on the credit card it went.
After talking about things with my mom that night and hearing about how she had a scare of loosing one of her pups a few weeks back due to what she referred to as a covid like virus for dogs, i thought more about Charlie's situation. It occured to me that maybe it wasn't all of a sudden. Charlie had been having a lot of accidents lately, like a lot, and i attributed them to me being back at work and all the changes going on around her. She would passive aggressive pee to let me know when she was not happy. I immediately called the vet, shared my thoughts and concerns at which time they also told me that she had been diagnosed as having Kidney Disney and was currently in kidney failure but they had started treatments for that and they would see how she responds to it over the remaining 11 hours. She was currently on any antibiotics as they assumed this was simply related to ingesting something.
Friday night my mom came down to be with me as i knew hope and love wasn't enough for my baby girl and that my credit card had a limit. She waited with me for the update phone call i was to receive at 9:30 and to ask all the important questions i would probably not remember to ask given my emotional state. Well, Charlie is a fighter! They added antibiotics to the mix, were treating her for all possibilities of cause, she was responding to the treatment and had shown enough of a "significant" improvement that the doctors were hopefull that if i could find the means to keep her there, on iv treatment for 3-5 more days and she kept responding as she currently was (she finally started eating food again after3 days of not eating), she had pretty good odds of recovering as well as having a good quality of life afterwards but may potentially need medications/change in diet/exercise to maintain her quality of life. I thought 3-5 more days at 1700-2000...impossible. Then i thought, how can i go in there now that she is coherent, walking around and eating and then have her put down because of money? That was also impossible for me to do.
I asked if there was anything to lessen the cost because i couldn't do either. Maybe i could get iv stuff off amazon and have get a nursing student to do it?? Or, something like that? I thought i was going to have a panic attack. They informed me that she has shown so much significant improvement that she no longer required oxygen and as of right now i would only be looking at around 500-600 each additional day. That's way less, but i've still gotten myself way in over my head already and that was well far beyond what my credit card would allow. I also thought how horrible it would be to tell about Charlie being put down and then have people respond with "You should have said something, i would of helped out with whatever i could."
So i have told her story now. If you are able to help out with whatever you can, it would give a lot of hope and the very best odds at her recovering and staying in our lives. Sleepovers. Playdates. Nature walks with my Kindergarten class. Birthday parties. Days at the Beach. Receiving all the love and happiness she has to give. I appreciate anything at all. Financially, I am well in over my head. I understand she's a dog, but she's the closest thing i will ever have to having a child of my own, and i don't think another dog would be as loving and as perfect as her. Thank you so very much!
This all happened so suddenly. She was displaying odd behaviour monday night such as sitting calmly during her bath. Tuesday morning she was pacing back and forth in the bathroom while i was getting ready for work and wouldn't leave the bathroom. When I got home after work her head was going in circles and bobbing all around and at that time i knew she needed to get to a vet right away. I thought maybe she got into something as this all seemed so quick or maybe she had a stroke or something. I rushed her to her family vet who told me they didn't have the facilities to take care of her and to get her to the animal hospital right away. By the time I drove the ten minutes there her body was limp. When I handed her over I thought that was the last time I would ever hold her in my arms. When she was first admitted they had asked if it was at all possible she had ate something she shouldn't of and if her condition came on quickly or had been gradual. I told them she had been acting a little wierd and gradually exhibiting odder behaviour over the past 24 hours.
The hospital needed a $400 deposit just to look at her and get things going and it was estimated that it would be around 700 for the visit. They got back to me a couple hours later and told me she was in critical care and needed to stay the night as she was on oxygen and an iv and would die if taken off them. She wasn't able to breathe on her own or oxygenate her little body. They now needed $700 for a deposit and quoted me at around $1200-$1500 for the overnight care and stay. The next day it was strongly recommended that she stay at the hospital as they were still figuring things out and giving her treatment but that she was stable enough they would release her to me but would need carefull monitoring for the next 24 hours. I was quoted at 1500-1700 with a 75% deposit required upfront. I simply didn't have the money on hand and took her home.
With the help of some friends, she was carefully monitored and when things worsened, we took her right back to emerge. She was put back on oxygen and an iv drip and they needed a $900 deposit upfront and quoted me at $1700-$2000 for the next 24 hours of care or that she could be humanely euthanized. They told me that she was in a very bad condition, even with the care there was no guarantees she would pull through, recover or what her life might be like afterwards. They said they would know a lot more after seeing how she responds to care over the next 24 hours. The other option they gave me was to have her humanely euthanized. I just couldn't accept that as an option at that moment and felt she deserved a fighting chance and the doctor's more time to figure out what exactly was wrong. I didn't want money to be the deciding factor in whether she lived or died that night and so on the credit card it went.
After talking about things with my mom that night and hearing about how she had a scare of loosing one of her pups a few weeks back due to what she referred to as a covid like virus for dogs, i thought more about Charlie's situation. It occured to me that maybe it wasn't all of a sudden. Charlie had been having a lot of accidents lately, like a lot, and i attributed them to me being back at work and all the changes going on around her. She would passive aggressive pee to let me know when she was not happy. I immediately called the vet, shared my thoughts and concerns at which time they also told me that she had been diagnosed as having Kidney Disney and was currently in kidney failure but they had started treatments for that and they would see how she responds to it over the remaining 11 hours. She was currently on any antibiotics as they assumed this was simply related to ingesting something.
Friday night my mom came down to be with me as i knew hope and love wasn't enough for my baby girl and that my credit card had a limit. She waited with me for the update phone call i was to receive at 9:30 and to ask all the important questions i would probably not remember to ask given my emotional state. Well, Charlie is a fighter! They added antibiotics to the mix, were treating her for all possibilities of cause, she was responding to the treatment and had shown enough of a "significant" improvement that the doctors were hopefull that if i could find the means to keep her there, on iv treatment for 3-5 more days and she kept responding as she currently was (she finally started eating food again after3 days of not eating), she had pretty good odds of recovering as well as having a good quality of life afterwards but may potentially need medications/change in diet/exercise to maintain her quality of life. I thought 3-5 more days at 1700-2000...impossible. Then i thought, how can i go in there now that she is coherent, walking around and eating and then have her put down because of money? That was also impossible for me to do.
I asked if there was anything to lessen the cost because i couldn't do either. Maybe i could get iv stuff off amazon and have get a nursing student to do it?? Or, something like that? I thought i was going to have a panic attack. They informed me that she has shown so much significant improvement that she no longer required oxygen and as of right now i would only be looking at around 500-600 each additional day. That's way less, but i've still gotten myself way in over my head already and that was well far beyond what my credit card would allow. I also thought how horrible it would be to tell about Charlie being put down and then have people respond with "You should have said something, i would of helped out with whatever i could."
So i have told her story now. If you are able to help out with whatever you can, it would give a lot of hope and the very best odds at her recovering and staying in our lives. Sleepovers. Playdates. Nature walks with my Kindergarten class. Birthday parties. Days at the Beach. Receiving all the love and happiness she has to give. I appreciate anything at all. Financially, I am well in over my head. I understand she's a dog, but she's the closest thing i will ever have to having a child of my own, and i don't think another dog would be as loving and as perfect as her. Thank you so very much!
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Mandy Kantor
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London, ON