I woke up this morning to find my dog, Maui, unable to stand up or lift his head. I rushed him to the vet where he underwent many tests and a radiograph that eventually revealed that his bladder is full of stones, and a few of the stones were obstructing his urethra.

The good news is, they were able to push the stones back into his bladder to (hopefully) give us a few days until we can get him into surgery on Friday. The doctor said that if I hadn’t brought him in, he would have went into kidney failure and died.

The bad news is, I spent about $500 for the testing and small procedure, and it will be another $3,000 for the surgery.

You may be aware, I was recently hit with a lot of financial and personal hardships that I’m going through, and this is just one more stone on top of the pile. If you could donate even $1 it would help me so much!