Life saving treatment to save Skye’s life

Anyone who knows me would know that this is something I’d never normally do, but I never in my life imagined that I would be in the situation I am in now. Yesterday, on 13th June, my world was absolutely turned upside down when my darling Skye, who I’ve had for all 7 years of her life, was yesterday on the 13th June rushed to the vets with suspected poisoning, after a night of vomiting and then very quickly deteriorating at home the following morning.

This is never something I ever imagined I would have to write. Yesterday, on 13th June, my world was absolutely turned upside down when my darling Skye was rushed to the vets with suspected poisoning, after a night of vomiting and then very quickly deteriorating at home the following morning.

I rang our local vets, who informed me to take her straight in, and who initially told me they suspected she had something called “Leptospirosis”, which is a serious bacterial infection spread though contaminated water or from rats.

After what turns out to be a mis-diagnosis, which meant that she continued to severely deteriorate throughout the day, the vets where she has now been referred to at Pride Park Veterinary Hospital think that she has been poisoned by a sugar called Xylitol, which is found in things like chewing gum or toothpaste. We have absolutely no idea how Skye has come into contact with this kind of thing.

Skye is still at Pride Park Veterinary Hospital, where she remains in the intensive care unit, on vital life support, fighting for her life. When we arrived with her yesterday evening, I thought she was going to die in the footwell of my car as her condition had so rapidly deteriorated, and I got told there was very little chance of them being able to save her.

By some absolute miracle, she is still alive, and made it through the night, but we don’t yet know what damage her brain and other internal organs have suffered from the effects of the toxic in her system and delayed lack of vital treatment, but until her condition can be stabilised we won’t be able to know the full effects. We already know that her liver function is severely impaired, and can only hope that with the treatment of ‘intralipids’ that it may still be able to save her. I am fully aware that her prognosis looking very poor. However, she is my absolute rock and life, and I am absolutely crumbling at the thought of having to live without her. She is too young to die. Anyone who knows me will know what a huge part of my life she is, and how much she means to me. I haven’t slept in the last 48 from the absolute horror and stress that I am facing.

Really stupidly, I never decided to insure Skye, instead I had a “savings account” for life emergencies such as these, which I always thought would be enough. Sadly, after less than 48 hours in intensive care, the bill for Skye’s life saving treatment is already over £5,000, which my life savings don’t stretch to. This is expected to double or even triple as she continues to receive treatment to try and save her. I am absolutely distraught and terrified of the thought of not being able to save her because of money, for I cannot put a price on her life. And whilst I am desperately trying to find a way to somehow raise the funds I need to save her, I don’t think that I am going to find the means to do this alone, or at least not in the time that will be required.

I would be so incredibly grateful if anyone has even a penny to spare to help the treatment to save Skye’s life, even sharing this post would mean so much to me.

I would just like to say that I feel so awful about having to go online to ask for other people to help fund Skye’s treatment but I am really at a loss on what else to do, and the thought of not being able to save her is crushing my heart.

Thank you so much for reading all this.