Donation protected
(Update: I believe in full transparency so I'm not editing the original post. You can see updated info at the bottom of this. Still need all the help we can get.)
This is my first time doing this. I've never wanted to be at a point in my life where I had to ask for help from others, especially financially. I've prided myself on independence values.
Sometimes it's just out of our control.
Our girl needs your help. She's too young to pass and her family/friends are not ready to say goodbye. We just want to do anything humanly possible to give her a chance at more life.
She has kidney failure, reasoning unclear till the ultrasound. They put her in for surgery, bleeding tumor in the spleen and something about blood on the mast. I'm no doctor, just relaying terms.
I can go on and on about how much she means to all of us but right now just really need your help. Please help if you can.
Thank you so much for your time.
(just sharing this link wherever you can will help so so much)
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Update: 5/17 - I would of updated this yesterday but I didn't know what to say yet, just lost in a void of emptiness.
Well it's with a heavy heart I bring you the news, Nuka is gone.
We knew the risks proceeding with surgery and even though it hurt our wallets and has us in deep in debt, we would do it again in a heartbeat.
She was our family, our best friend. I see so many things that remind me of her and the floodgates just open. Never had to make the decision to put any dog to sleep till yesterday. There was just nothing more that could be done to give her any chance at survival. As they were doing surgery to remove her spleen since it had a bleeding tumor, they discovered her liver was 95% cancer and her kidneys were basically failing her.
We drove over there after giving permission to put her to sleep and said goodbye, hugged her, cried in her fur, kissed her, held her cold paw. I can still see the mental image of her lying there.
This is gonna be a rough road ahead of us. Just emotionally dead. I miss her so fucking much. No dog ever had the kind of character she had, she was a 1/1 our og. I'm gonna miss all your silly antics, your vocal howl talk backs with your sass, your upside down fully belly up tongue hanging wide out goofy ass grin sleep positions, your stoop kidness, your sunbathing when shade is right next to you, just yeah. Fucking love you girl. I'm thankful you went peacefully and no pain. Thank you so much for giving me a new quality of life. I'm grateful I got to be apart of yours as well.
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Donation link is still up. I changed the amount 3k less since they never had a opportunity to do ultrasound and other procedures before the discovery of cancer.
PLEASE help if you can, spread the word. We need all the help we can get.
(I'm working on a memorial video in the meantime, finally figured out what track im gonna use after many hours of deep digging from the heart, we have tons of photos and memories to share with you all)
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Update: 5/30
Just wanted to say THANK YOU so much for those who have donated so far.
After checks, some PayPal payments, and gofundme itself we're 24% of the goal.
Still a long climb but I'm not giving up.
Organizer
Dan Moesel
Organizer
Long Beach, CA