Support Oakley's Fight for Health and Recovery

Hi, my name is Kasey O’Connell & I’m raising money to help assist in paying for Oakleys medical bill. Oakley was starting to get sick Wednesday but didn’t show signs of pain or discomfort. He ate his food Wednesday night & passed his food through no problem, despite throwing up a few times earlier in the day. We went out to dinner & came home to find that ate part of our area rug for his water bowl. Continued to act his normal self, passed more poop, etc. at this point we decided to go to bed.

Thursday morning I woke up to find 6 piles of throw up throughout the house. He became real lethargic Thursday, refusing to eat, drink, really do anything besides go outside & lay down. As the day went on, he continued to throw up profusely. Wouldn’t eat or drink or do anything. We called the vet & they decided it was best to bring him in… so, we took him to the vet Thursday night - they medicated him, did x rays & sent home for monitoring. Woke up Friday morning more lethargic than he was on Thursday, covered in drool, barely walking, just not himself. I had Marc rush him back to the vet. They took more x rays & compared them from the night before. The “bubbles” they found the night before (assumed they were gas bubbles) didn’t move, leading to them thinking it was an obstruction. Rushed him in for emergency surgery… 4 hours later, he came out & was put into recovery. The doctor removed over a foot & a half of his intestine. It was bunched up like a draw string bag is when you tighten the top. Completely bruised/ dead due to no blood movement going through. Over a foot of string was removed from his intestine/ colon. Whatever they couldn’t get out that was already in his color will be passed at some point when he poops. He’s on IV fluids, as well as another IV set up with blood coming through to him since he lost a significant amount. His stomach was starting to bloat on-top of all of this.

The doctor told me he’s lucky he was brought in when he was because if Marc would have been working an AM shift, & came home at 1400 Friday afternoon, Oakley would have been deceased due to his intestines & internal organs being shut down. When she went in to operate, they were already in the process of shutting down. Come Saturday, minimal progress was shown. Come Sunday, he still was not eating or drinking & was becoming lethargic again.

Monday morning, an ultrasound was completed & free floating blood was found surfacing inside his stomach. A second round of emergency surgery was performed, resulting in another foot of his intestine being taken out. A drainage tube was placed inside of his stomach to get the excess infection removed from his stomach. He’s still extremely critical but is putting up a fight.

Venmo; kaseyoconnell24