Yoshi's MCT surgery

Hello friends!

The short version:
Yoshi has a cancerous Mast Cell Tumor next to her right eye. Surgery will cost somewhere between $3700 - $4800. That is quite expensive! I would greatly appreciate any community support. Her surgery is scheduled for February 15th.

The longer version :
I adopted Yoshi about 5.5 years ago. She was almost a year old, 35 lb (the rescue center told me she wasn't going to get any bigger), wasn't house broken, wasn't spayed, was afraid of stairs, stress ate wallets and shoes and sunglasses (oh my!) and was the cutest puppy! The longer she was with me the more it became apparent she had quite a bit of trauma in her early days. She was/is reactive to new humans and creatures. With people and dogs she was comfortable with she was the sweetest, gentlest, giant dog. 
When Scramble,The Mitten (cat), Yoshi, and I all moved in together we had no idea how the dog-cat co-habitation would go. Well, it was a process. It took about 10 months of slow introductions, trying not to go over stress thresholds, and  now Yoshi and The Mitten are best friends! 
Anyway, one day Yoshi and The Mitten were playing and the humans heard a loud bonk and several minutes later the right side of Yoshi's face was super swollen!! We decided to sleep on it and see how it looked the next day (and also did much research on veterinary websites). The swelling went down a lot, but we kept and eye on it. About a week or two after that it swelled up a little again and so it was time to call the vet.
Because of Yoshi's reactivity, going to the vet is an even more stressful experience than one might expect (I've had to administer several of Yoshi's vaccine shots because she won't let the vets too close to her).  And because of the Covid times where humans are supposed to stay outside of the vet buildings,I expected it to be even more unpleasant and triggering for the Yoshi dog. 
So vet trip number one: I loaded her up on trazodone, set her up with peanut butter and her muzzle, had many conversations with the support staff and vet and waited outside. Five minutes after they took her in they brought her back outside and said she was too stressed for them to do anything and said we would have to bring her back another time when they could sedate her. Darn.

Wanting a second opinion, I took her to a walk-in clinic the next week(vet trip #2). Again she was too stressed for them to do any tests. But they gave us more trazodone and acepromazine to help calm her down. 
So vet trip #3, two days later, we went back again after taking much more of the calming drugs (as directed by the vet). And still she wouldn't let the vet touch her face. We had to sedate her (a huge ordeal with Yoshi and Alison both crying). 
The vet came back with the cancer diagnosis.
They had done a fine needle aspiration on the bump and tested the cells. She recommended we schedule a surgery to removed it ASAP.

I called around to many board certified veterinary surgeons and scheduled with Portland Veterinary Surgical Center for February 15th and 7:15am.  In the phone consult (so great they could do a phone consult and I didn't have to bring her in an extra time!) the surgeon acknowledged the tumor is in a tricky spot but sounded optimistic. Mast Cell Tumors are one of the most common cancers in dogs. They are categorized in grades 1-3. Ones are more benign and usually treatable with the surgery; threes are more aggressive and more likely to have metastasized. Our surgeon thinks Yoshi has a grade 2, which can kind of go either way. They will biopsy it after the surgery to see how quickly the cells are dividing and populating.
We are hoping its a lower grade 2 and hasn't spread anywhere!

For MCT surgeries, they cut with wider margins around the tumor to make sure they get all the cancerous cells. This is tricky for Yoshi because of the proximity with her eyeball. Our surgeon did her dissertation on MCT margins (cool!) and plans to cut diagonal to the eyelid to hopefully not impede its function, but if they get in there and do need to take the eyelid they will take some skin or something from elsewhere and graft it. That would be the more expensive option.

So we hope that this is just a one-and-done surgery on the 15th!
There is no pressure to donate, but any contribution to this big chonk of expensive vet bill would be so helpful.
Happy, healing thoughts are also greatly appreciated.
I also have Cash App, Venmo, Paypal and Zelle if those are easier forms of donation.
Thank you for reading!
I love this Yoshi dog very very much!!

Woof woof!