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Echo needs our help as she fights for her life.
Nine years ago, Doug and I visited Chicago’s Anti Cruelty Society and locked eyes with a gorgeous little pup hiding in the corner of a kennel. From the moment we met, we were bonded. We named the mixed breed with the kind eyes, bright spirit and “radar” ears: Echo. Although we technically rescued her, she has done more to rescue us than we could ever do for her.
Since then, Echo counts as family to a whole host of people, from the employees of Down Under Endeavours (where she greets all of our guests with a happy wag and a cheerful smile and where she offers reassuring presence to employees when the going gets tough) to our family members (where she is the official family pet in households as far flung as Ohio to Australia), and to our many friends all across the country from the sands of Florida to mountains of Washington. Echo has touched all of our lives in so many ways.
Starting in January, Echo’s back legs started shaking and trembling. The shaking gradually has worsened over the last few months. Through of all of this, she never once complained and still smiled at us every day, never missing an opportunity for a walk or a belly rub. In other words, it was business as usual in Echo’s world. By early March, initial medications were not working and other symptoms started appearing. She began experiencing a constant temperature, tender tummy, excessive drinking of water, and vomiting. At that time, our vet referred us to an internal medical specialist way out in the suburbs of Chicago. On April 21, we heard the heart wrenching news that “issues” were discovered in the lymph nodes in her neck, stones in her bladder, and an extremely large 8cm by 8cm mass on her liver. After another round of tests and aspiration of the mass, we learned that she needed immediate surgery. We will meet with the surgeon on Monday, April 27th, and Echo will receive a CT scan to see if it has spread. We hope it hasn’t, but we don’t know yet, everything is moving very fast.
This news couldn’t come at more challenging times in our lives. But we cannot and will not give up on Echo. Just as we fought through our own health battles, with the help of friends and family who did not give up on us, we are committed to helping Echo through this challenge. Echo, Doug, and I are asking for your love and any support you can spare at this already difficult time.
We will get through this, we are a family of fighters, but we need your help. We are so incredibly lucky to have mates and family like you in a time like this.
We will update this page as we progress further down this pathway before us. In the meantime, the morning walks with Echo are extra special, and we are feeding her far too many treats :). She deserves it, there’s only one Echo in this world and she has enriched so many lives.
Echo still has a lot of fight in her and she still has a lot of love to give. We appreciate from the bottom of our hearts any help you can offer.
Thanks mates.
Corinne and Doug
Nine years ago, Doug and I visited Chicago’s Anti Cruelty Society and locked eyes with a gorgeous little pup hiding in the corner of a kennel. From the moment we met, we were bonded. We named the mixed breed with the kind eyes, bright spirit and “radar” ears: Echo. Although we technically rescued her, she has done more to rescue us than we could ever do for her.
Since then, Echo counts as family to a whole host of people, from the employees of Down Under Endeavours (where she greets all of our guests with a happy wag and a cheerful smile and where she offers reassuring presence to employees when the going gets tough) to our family members (where she is the official family pet in households as far flung as Ohio to Australia), and to our many friends all across the country from the sands of Florida to mountains of Washington. Echo has touched all of our lives in so many ways.
Starting in January, Echo’s back legs started shaking and trembling. The shaking gradually has worsened over the last few months. Through of all of this, she never once complained and still smiled at us every day, never missing an opportunity for a walk or a belly rub. In other words, it was business as usual in Echo’s world. By early March, initial medications were not working and other symptoms started appearing. She began experiencing a constant temperature, tender tummy, excessive drinking of water, and vomiting. At that time, our vet referred us to an internal medical specialist way out in the suburbs of Chicago. On April 21, we heard the heart wrenching news that “issues” were discovered in the lymph nodes in her neck, stones in her bladder, and an extremely large 8cm by 8cm mass on her liver. After another round of tests and aspiration of the mass, we learned that she needed immediate surgery. We will meet with the surgeon on Monday, April 27th, and Echo will receive a CT scan to see if it has spread. We hope it hasn’t, but we don’t know yet, everything is moving very fast.
This news couldn’t come at more challenging times in our lives. But we cannot and will not give up on Echo. Just as we fought through our own health battles, with the help of friends and family who did not give up on us, we are committed to helping Echo through this challenge. Echo, Doug, and I are asking for your love and any support you can spare at this already difficult time.
We will get through this, we are a family of fighters, but we need your help. We are so incredibly lucky to have mates and family like you in a time like this.
We will update this page as we progress further down this pathway before us. In the meantime, the morning walks with Echo are extra special, and we are feeding her far too many treats :). She deserves it, there’s only one Echo in this world and she has enriched so many lives.
Echo still has a lot of fight in her and she still has a lot of love to give. We appreciate from the bottom of our hearts any help you can offer.
Thanks mates.
Corinne and Doug
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Corinne Goodman
Organizer
Chicago, IL