Please help recoup Daisy expenses

UPDATE: Daisy is now home and recovering from pancreatitis and a gastric ulcer as well as neurotoxin poisoning potentially from her monthly topical. The bill ended up being $7,700. The grant I applied for was denied due to cuts and lack of new funding. I exhausted most of my savings, and what I had left after the sale of my home. Daisy will be on a special very restrictive diet and two medications for the rest of her life. I don’t go back to work until August when school opens, which is just as well since I am going to have to monitor Daisy closely through all this. I almost lost her. I will be contacting the manufacturer as well as filing a severe adverse reaction report for this medication. I should have known better. Please help me recoup some of this. My lupus flare ups impact me greatly in times of stress even more so. I had gotten in a place financially where I thought I could wait until school to start to work again and by then manage my lupus symptoms better. It’s been a long three years. I need a break from the back to back things. I see now how people become homeless with their dogs.

My sweet Daisy, my precious Yorkie and constant companion, has been admitted again to Blue Pearl Emergency Vet here in Fort Lauderdale — this time for pancreatitis and a possible bowel obstruction. X-rays show something that may require emergency surgery, but we won’t know for sure until the radiologist confirms. She’s also being tested for Addison’s disease.

This is the second time in two months she’s had to be hospitalized, and my heart is absolutely breaking. The current estimate for treatment — without surgery — is $5,235. If surgery is needed, the costs will rise sharply. I’ve already drained almost all my savings to keep her alive once, and I’m prepared to give every last dollar I have again. But if the total climbs beyond what I can manage… I don’t want to say it. Daisy may not make it.

Some of you know my past — how my ex destroyed my credit, leaving me unable to qualify for Care Credit or any financing. My car is also in the shop right now needing a new transmission. It feels like everything is crashing at once, and I’m doing all I can just to hang on.

But Daisy is my everything. She’s not just a dog — she is my reason for waking up each morning, my source of comfort, my family. She has saved my life more times than I can count, and now it’s my turn to fight for hers. I am shattered. I am scared. But I am not giving up.

If you can help in any way, even just by sharing this, I would be endlessly grateful. Blue Pearl can also be contacted directly for payment if you’d rather help that way.

Please — help me save Daisy. Help me keep my best friend. Help me not lose the only piece of hope I have left.

Love,

Lucy