Two Beautiful Babies Gone Unexpectedly

My name is Jayda Schulfer and my husband is Dylan Schulfer and unfortunately we have been through a lot in a year or two. About a year ago, our precious Karma (white with brown ears) we diagnosed with cancer in her nervous system. She had a golf ball size tumor growing on her back leg. She had surgery and got her tumor removed and it was a long recovery. After the recovery, Karma was back to her silly playful self and the cancer was behind her. Then about two months later, I was in a huge amount of pain. I was on my period and had covid at the time, but I was bleeding more than I usually bleed and was in so much pain. We found out after several tests that we had an ectopic pregnancy after 2 years of trying with only one tube not clogged shut, medications, procedures, etc. I had to go through chemotherapy to terminate the pregnancy because an ectopic pregnancy is extremely life threatening and it couldve killed me. The healing process was long and an expensive one. This was extremely hard with us on top of Karma heeling from her cancer and very expensive. 6 more months later (end of last year 2024 beginning of this year 2025), Karma's tumor grew back in the same spot but more aggressive. It was the size of almost a tennis ball and grew faster than the first tumor. We did another surgery to remove the tumor and the healing process was longer for her since she is 12 years old. Karma loved to run so taking her leg wasn't an option. The second surgery seemed to work because we did not have any tumor grow back. We checked her for naughty lumps (that's what we told her) every night and her energy came back and she was so happy. No more cancer we hoped. Fast forward to April 29th 2025, her sister Jinx passed unexpectedly. I found her in the backyard seizing and I had to drive her to the only emergency vet that could take her, which was 2 hrs away. (Eau Claire) She seized all the way up to the emergency vet. Once I got to the vet with Jinx they hooked her up right away and tried medications to stop her seizures. None were successful. I knew since she was seizing for a long period of time, that if she came back at all she wasn't going to be the same pup which the vet confirmed. After about 10 or 15 minutes at being at the emergency vet, they told me Jinx was no longer able to breathe on her own, her seizures couldnt stop, and they were 98% sure it was a brain tumor. After a couple hours of her being on heavy meds (they put her to sleep and numbed her to help her not be in pain) my husband met me at the emergency vet (he was at work when it all happened) and we had to say goodbye. Jinx was 11 years old and a beautiful Australian Shepherd. Jinx was the loudest barker out of the family, had a wiggly butt, and loved to play with her sister and her two brothers. This was extremely unexpected as she had no symptoms at all for her brain tumor and has never had seizures before. Grieving her has been so hard. Since we are having infertility issues, and you know our fur babies are our babies, this is extremely difficult for us. Obviously euthinizing Jinx and the emergency vet was very expensive and we sent her to get cremated. Our other pups and my husband and I couldnt believe that our little bear (Jinx) was gone. Two weeks later, May 15th we got a huge storm. Jinx and Karma are both terrified of storms and had the worst storm anxiety. While the storm was happening, Karma was taking it very hard and was having an anxiety attack which was normal for every storm. She toppled over and couldn't really move. She was awake and responsive but was so scared. After the storm passed she walked around slow but fine. She ate food, drank water, asked for pets and went and laid down in her bed. We had to leave home to go do something and when we came back, Karma was in her bed breathing heavily and Dylan noticed she lost control of her bowels and was very limp. He talked to her and she kept looking at him but she could not move. We picked her up and called every emergency vet we could: mosinee was too busy so appleton was the next closest and available to us (we are in Wisconsin rapids). During the drive to Appleton we were half way to Plover Wisconsin, Karma started gagging and kind of jerking. Then just nothing. Dylan performed CPR while on the phone with Appleton Emergency Vet until we got to Plover. Karma was gone. Appleton then referred us to UW Madison, where we can get her cremated and also an autopsy performed to see if it was her heart (which we suspect. We think the storm was too much for her since she was old and had cancer. We think she had a heart attack or stroke). We also want to make sure Jinx and Karma's passing weren't related or anything. The autopsy and the cremation again is another expensive bill. My husband and I are good people. We love our fur babies with our whole hearts and these babies mean the entire world to us. These passings of our two precious baby girls is so incredibly difficult on top of our own ectopic pregnancy and not being able to have our own. We never ask for help and are always willing to help others. We are setting up this gofundme to help with medical bills, cremation bills, and emergency vet bills. We know everyone has their own battles but any help is greatly appreciated. Our hearts are so heavy and will never be the same without two of our babies. We now have another vet appointment with our other dog Jarvan who is Jinx's twin to make sure he is healthy and the tumor that Jinx had isn't hereditary. This was incredibly hard to type this gofundme and I've typed it so many times while crying. I tried to upload 18 photos of our beautiful babies but it only let's me choose 5 and it's so hard to narrow it down to 5 photos. These puppies were so happy, so energetic, so playful, so protective, and the best companions ever along with their two brothers. We will forever miss our "Has a Tail" (Karma) and our Little Bear (Jinx). Please share our story and help us back on our feet. Losing our babies two weeks apart and losing them in general is the worst feeling in the world. Coming home without them and having their brothers look for them is heart breaking. Please help us. Thank you in advance to everyone who shares our story, donates, or sends their condolences. Rest in peace Jinx Schulfer and Karma Schulfer. We love you so much.