Willow's Remembrance Page for Beardies In Need

Further to our initial collection for Willow huge vet bills we wanted to share a devastating update. It’s with great sadness we have lost Willow this morning At 2:30am we had to make the most difficult decision to say goodbye, unfortunately too many complications had set in and so quickly. As of 6 pm yesterday her bloods were ok and she seemed stable, however by early evening sadly things had rapidly deteriorated. The vet was called back in at 11pm, as the night staff who were watching her constantly were really worried. We received a call at 2 am after the vet had spent 3 hours with her. Sepsis peritonitis had set in. They think she had developed a possible ulcer which had burst. She had been sick twice, a raised temperature and heart rate. Sadly they also confirmed earlier that day that the replacement tendons in her left paw had failed partly due to a different infection that was also eating away bits of her skin. This would result in her having to have the the twine removed and she would have had to face both legs being fused on Monday, but first they were really battling with the infections and needed to get that under control first. The specialists confirmed they couldn’t just fuse one leg and they would have to do both as albeit the right was better than the left, there was too much flex in it, and with the other leg being fused it would put too much pressure on the joints on her right leg and it didn’t stand a chance. The right would have to over compensate and it would never heal. They would have had to carry out more emergency surgery at 7am today to find out what had burst and her lungs were also filling up, they think from the impact from the fall although all tests and scans to that point were and had been clear. There would have been a few more ops also plus her snapped lower K9 tooth to sort plus months of rehab. The vet explained Willow she now had only a 1 in 10 chance of survival of the emergency surgery and was critically ill. Sadly as we all do we always put our fur babies needs above our own, we took guidance from the amazing vet specialist and had to let her run free. We couldn’t put her through anymore as we all felt she had been through enough. To say we are totally heartbroken is an understatement. We wouldn’t wish this on anybody. The vet cried when calling us as they had also fallen in love with her in such a short amount of time and couldn’t believe how amazing she had been with all that she had gone through. She still wanted her tummy rubbing and they gave her lots of cuddles and kisses . We can’t put into words how devastated we are. Since we froze donations to the page last Saturday news has spread and we have received literally hundreds of messages from around the world asking us to open the page back up again so donations could be made. In light of the latest heartbreaking development we have decided to open the page again from the £16,135 that had aleady been raised so that donations can be collected on behalf of 'Beardies In Need' a charity who have been a huge support to us over the past 10 days. As we have always communicated any funds donated and surplus after Willow's treatments would be split to help other beardie collies who need help and a donation will also be made to The Guide Dogs To The Blind to support all the amazing work they do. Donations can also be made direct to The Beardies In Need via PayPal to: [email redacted] Thank you for all your kindness and support for Willow and ourselves over the past 10 days we have been left humbled and forever grateful. It's been totally impossible to reply to every message and everyone in person, but please be assured that we have taken the time to read them all. We now need to take this time to regroup as a family XXX