Ninja's Vet Bills

Hello and thank you for taking the time to look at Ninja's donation page. My name is Fred Maerkle, my friend's call me Derf, and This is my cat Ninja!

I got Ninja when he was a kitten about a year ago on Christmas. 


He is the love of my life and lights up my world!

Unfortunately late at night on November 23rd he was having difficulty breathing so I drove him to the only 24/7 vet around me for an emergency visit. He was put in an oxygen tank to help with his breathing and put through several tests to see what was wrong with my little nugget. 

Turns out he has Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Impossible to pronounce, right?

That means the walls to his heart have thickened and the chambers of the heart are having difficulty opening and can't accept accept blood properly. This results in a drop in blood pressure. The kidneys respond by retaining extra water within the body in an attempt to maintain adequate blood pressure. As heart disease progresses and water retention continues, there comes a point when the volume of fluid in the body is too great a work load for the heart, and fluid "spills over" from blood vessels into the lungs or other body cavities.

That is why he was having trouble breathing. 

With medication Ninja is back to normal for now but sadly this is a terminal illness and will eventually worsen to the point where medication won't help anymore. The veterinarian predicted he would live six to twelve more months. It has been about three months and I feel blessed for every day that I get with him.

His medical bills are quite taxing and If I can, I plan on raising the goal to cover his future medical visits. If you can donate anything I would be immensely
grateful!

Thank you again for taking the time to look at Ninja's donation page and thank you for supporting Ninja! I hope to have as long a life with him as possible and to keep taking pictures of this guy being a goofball!