My dog needs surgery and I need money to get it done.
Alright, I’m home from the vet so as I said; I’m writing a more definitive post about what’s happening and why I need help.
Here is the break down: Around 6:00 pm Eastern time, on today’s date of March 30th 2016 my dog began to act strangely. He was jerking his head around, his eyes seemed to be moving uncontrollably, and his back legs would not function.
Scared that he was having some sort of seizure, we took him to an emergency vet. We got a rather hefty diagnosis:
He has Cognitive Dysfunction Disease, which is basically doggy alzheimers.
He has a mass of….something growing deep in his ear canal that is pressing against his ear drum and causing him to have vertigo and seizure-like symptoms.
He may be developing a yeast infection on his skin, which has caused his hair to fall out (we thought it was fleas and thus treated it as such: with flea medication, baths, and medical rubs to heal the skin. While it did help the bleeding and scabs it didn’t treat the actual infection itself, unfortunately.)
The vet, thinking that the mass was a plug of hair, attempted to flush it out. Unfortunately this did not work, and whatever it is is still in his ear, meaning he’s still having those seizure-like symptoms.
It also means that he has to have surgery to have the plug removed from his ear. I don’t know if she means actual like cutting up surgery or just sedating him and jabbing tweezers in his ear but either way I have to follow up with our primary vet for bloodwork to see if the infection has caused anything bad or if there could be a possible other symptom causing the whole head turning seizure thing and the operation to remove the plug.
He is in pain. He can’t walk straight, and he is constantly disoriented. The vet said this will continue until the plug is removed. She said it is important that it be removed as soon as possible or the pressure may cause the symptoms to become permanent.
Now, I have no idea what this plug removal will cost. But I do know what the bloodwork will cost at the very base price. And that price is $170. That, however, is the price I got from the emergency vet care clinic which has lowered prices as it is charity run…from the main veterinary office I am pretty sure it’s going to be double or even triple that.
I cannot pay any of that. I don’t have any money. So, what I need is commissions. I need to make money, and quickly. I will draw anything–and I do mean anything–to help my dog. As long as you can pay in full and same day you order the commission none of the normal rules apply.
Donations, are of course, also more than welcome.
My commission sheet is here
the previous post I made about this is here
Even if you can only give like a dollar it still helps.
I don’t want him to suffer.
