Sadly, my ESA and furrever love of my life, Hopie, has polycystic kidney disease, and she doesn't have much time left... One vet visit already took $1k. With living paycheck to paycheck, the thought of having to spend more- to end my own baby's life- already hurts more than I can express in words alone.

The doctor says she has days - months left, and each day having to be awake and alert for anything out of the ordinary has already drained me physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Hearing the news alone gave me a Takotsubo cardiomyopathy episode, and as wise as it would have been for me to get that checked, I couldn't bear to be away from my baby girl for even a second after hearing her diagnosis (so I didn't go to a doctor for that. Needless to say, child before the mother imo).

If you can spare even just a little to have to pay for what I wish wouldn't come, it would mean the world to me and my husband, who already can't imagine our lives without her...

~Ashley; devastated mother