Lola Shamone Placko Needs Your Help!

A Letter from Lola to you all:

My name is Lola Shamone Placko, and I am the best girl ever. I greet everyone with the most enthusiastic wiggles, sweetest smile, and no one is more eager than me to be your bestest friend. I was rescued by my Mom, Kristen and my Dad, Ryan, and they love me more than anything in the world.

On March 25th, all of a sudden and totally out of the blue, I was in a lot of pain, I was very tired, and I stopped being able to use my back legs. My Mom and Dad immediately took me to the vet at Memorial Vet Urgent Care in Throop, Pennsylvania (thank you Dr. Wallis for being so nice to me!). They did an X-ray and discovered a problem with some vertebrates near my tail. I had to get to a neurologist ASAP. We took a car ride to Penn Vet in Philadelphia with my dad holding me the whole time so that I was safe and warm and to try to make sure I felt as little pain as possible. Once we got there, I saw a neurologist Dr. Burkhardt. (Thank you for telling me I am the sweetest dog Dr. B!) After I got an MRI, we found out that I have a ruptured disc and a bruised spinal cord from chronic disc degenerative disease. I had to have surgery ASAP. Dr. Burkhardt removed the ruptured disc material and put my spinal cord back in place. I am currently recovering in the Penn Vet ICU and will need to stay here until I am healed, which might be a while. The doctors told Mom and Dad that I have not yet exhibited any signs of mobile function in my rear legs since surgery, but they are not losing hope. Only time will tell how much function I will regain. I have a long road ahead of me, but I also have the greatest family, and they will do absolutely everything for me so that I can continue to have the best life ever, filled with my smiles and making new friends and being the awesome Miss Lola Shamone.

So far, my medical costs have been $13,000 for all my tests, surgery and care. That cost does not include future expenses for rehab, equipment that could be required for my care and other supportive care I may need. So, to help my Mom and Dad, our friends are helping me start this fundraiser. Can you help my amazing family keep me healthy with a donation and/or by sharing this campaign with others? They need your help, and so do I. Please consider giving any amount. No donation is too small or too large! Also, if we raise more than we need to cover my medical expenses, the balance will be donated in my name to the Dessin Animal Shelter in Honesdale https://dessinshelters.com, which is where I was adopted from.

Thanks for considering helping me!

Love and snuggles,

Lola