Please help Lisa Adams Finlay Bring her Silkens Home!

Against all odds, I can bring my Silkens, Cher (age 11) and Una (age 3) home. All the cancer experts thought that my DLBCL cancer was going to be the end of me. Dealing with chemo and radiation and one trial after another of some toxic concoction, I made the hardest decision a person can make when, after 7 different failed types of treatments, the doctors pronounced me to be palliative. I placed my beloved Silkens, Cher and Una, back with Cher’s breeder, Keith and Jolene Hicks. Complicating all of this was that in 2022, Cher had a stroke, leaving her with serious mobility issues on one side. But she is a total love and a survivor. So I said goodbye to my girls, and a thousand thank you’s to Keith and Jolene for making Cher and Una a home. Then a miracle happened, and my previously aggressive cancer seems to have gone into remission. All the experts are baffled, but it’s a thing and here I am. I can bring the girls home. Being in a state of continuous intense cancer treatment has cost me my business and has hurt the family finances. Cher’s stroke means that we worry about the safety of flying her the 5 hours from Vancouver to Toronto. Keith took the girls to NW Fest, where Iola (thank you!!!) picked them up, and they await transport at Winsome Acres in Redmond. The consensus is that the safest way to get Cher and Una to Ontario from Redmond, is in a rental car. 2734 miles. 5 days and nights on the road. The cheapest quote (CAD) that I have is $2,995 for the rental minivan and about $1400 for gas and about $500 for really basic motels. Plus $1015 to fly to Vancouver and get this whole adventure on the road. That’s $5910 CAD. Anything you can contribute will be so appreciated. Any unspent funds will be returned to you and anonymous donations will be gifted to the ISWS Silken Health Committee and Silken Rescue.

Lisa Finlay