Please Save My Kitty from Cancer

Krys is a gentle, affectionate and brilliant rescue cat, I adopted her and her sister when they were 4 months old after they were abandoned in a box at the shelter's doorstep. She is the sweetest, most gentle cat I've ever met - on the rare occasions I've given her a bath, she's tried to climb me to get out of the tub without ever once using claws or teeth, she just tries to get out. She is incredibly affectionate and sleeps curled against my back or chest every single night. She's incredibly smart and has taken to opening closet doors in my home to go sleep curled up in the darkest place she can find. At present, her cat bed is under my desk - I had placed it in another room entirely, but she put it there because that's where she wants it and whenever I am working, that's where she is. She is always there to ground me when my work as a criminal defense attorney becomes emotionally difficult to cope with, right there to climb up beside my chair and rub her face on mine to make sure I'm ok.

I suffer from several painful disabilities and there are nights when the only thing that quiets the pain enough for me to sleep is this amazing little fluffball and her constant love. I genuinely cannot imagine life without her, I have no idea what I would do.

She has a growth that has cancerous cells in a small lump at the base of her tail and it needs to be removed. The vet tells me this is very slow moving, but that it causes constant pain that only increases over time. If it isn't removed, it will eventually kill her, but before it does that it will destroy her quality of life in a relatively short period of time. Additionally, if untreated it could metastasize and take her from me much more quickly, and with even more pain for this sweet, gentle cat that has never harmed anyone in her life.

I only recently started my own law firm, doing criminal defense and taking court appointed cases which the state barely pays for. I cannot afford this surgery and I cannot leave her to suffer without it. Please help me pay for the surgery needed to save this sweet girl from pain and suffering, and an early death.