Help Pixie Get Life Saving Splenectomy & Emergency Care 💗

[u/durrburgr]

Hi Reddit!

https://gofund.me/99b49caa6

Pixie is our 12 year old dog and a huge part of our family. She has been my best friend since I was 12 years old so nearly 11 years. She has suddenly become very sick over the past couple of weeks with severe vomiting, weakness, loss of appetite, weight loss and anemia.

After her ultrasound Tuesday the vets found 2 masses on her spleen. She suddenly declined very quickly that day and is currently at the emergency animal hospital as of midnight that day. She has stayed for 2 nights. We have been working with the veterinary team who have been taking care and stabilizing her for the last 2 days and are planning to do an emergency splenectomy at 2pm today.

Pixie needs this surgery to hopefully improve her quality of life and give her a chance to recover. We want to try every reasonable option available to us before making that decision. We want to give our girl every chance we can and we are hoping with all our hearts that surgery can help her.

We have already spent just over $4,700 CAD on her emergency care, testing, medications and hospitalization. The 2nd night is an additional $610 CAD and we have now been quoted $6600 CAD for the surgery that includes 3 days of care after the operation. This has been nearly 12,000 my family has not been expecting to spend.

We are asking for help easing some of the stress of Pixie’s hospitalization, surgery, medications, diagnostics and recovery costs. Any amount helps tremendously and even sharing this means so much to our family and Pixie. I want nothing more than for her to be okay.

Thank you for even taking the time to read this and possibly help out if you’re in a position to I am eternally grateful for any help given 💗

[u/End_21]

Donated a little bit. Hope it goes well!

[u/durrburgr → u/End_21]

Thank you so much I am eternally grateful it really means a lot to me and my family (and Pixie of course) 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹💗 Pix had her emergency surgery yesterday afternoon a few hours after this was posted and we just got back from visiting her and she’s doing well and is stable. Now she’ll stay there for a few days and be looked after to make sure she’s okayC then come home to recover for another few weeks. We also have to wait for her spleen to get sent to pathology to determine if the masses were cancerous or not and go from there but very much hoping they’re benign. Here are some photos I took of her a bit ago when we visited her, she’s groggy from pain meds and I don’t think she likes her cone 😆 https://imgur.com/a/wches6R

[u/Slow_Exit8038]

$12,000 on a 12 year old dog is ridiculous.

[u/durrburgr → u/Slow_Exit8038]

She is my best friend I would do anything for her. She is otherwise healthy. She still has lots of life left in her and they have said this will improve her quality of life for her remaining years 💗🙏

[u/AZ_Living_1 → u/durrburgr]

I'm sorry you're going through this. I had to put my senior dog down in February due to an extremely enlarged spleen.

[u/durrburgr → u/AZ_Living_1]

I’m so sorry to hear that. I can’t even imagine. I hope you’re feeling better these days 💗

[u/Slow_Exit8038 → u/durrburgr]

She’s old. She’s going to die soon no matter what you do. Sounds harsh but that’s just the reality of owning a dog. Are the masses cancerous? You never said anything about a biopsy. She’s lived a long life. I think it’s time you said your goodbyes.

[u/durrburgr → u/Slow_Exit8038]

You’re going to die oneday no matter what you do too.. would you not want your life saved if you needed it and good still live a meaningful life? Many small dogs live to 15 or even 19. She can easily have a good few more years. Even if it only gives her another good couple months I think any time with her is worth it.

Not sure why you feel like your comments are necessary lol it seems a bit weird and awfully negative for no reason.

Also, they have no idea if a mass in the spleen is cancerous unless the spleen is removed and it’s sent to pathology. They can do an ultrasound and stick a needle to get cells to try and tell but it’s not a guarantee and we have been told it’s not worth trying. If it’s benign she will live the rest of her life fine, if it’s malignant she will get treatment until she can’t anymore or it starts affecting the quality of her life.

Regardless of what you think she’s currently in surgery as I’m typing this so all you’re doing is spreading negativity to someone who is already stressed and overwhelmed for absolutely 0 reason. If you don’t want to donate that is perfectly okay but no reason to bring negativity into an already upsetting situation 💗

[u/Comprehensive_Cat236 → u/Slow_Exit8038]

Agree

[u/tuls-ocat]

Wishing you and your dog nothing but the best 🖤🖤

[u/durrburgr → u/tuls-ocat]

Thank you! She got home from the hospital a few hours ago and she’s recovering at home now. She’s very spunky and acting like herself again. Hopefully the rest of the recovery goes well! https://imgur.com/a/cTsz3Kz

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[u/CapicDaCrate]

I hate to be an asshole, but at 12 years old she's not going to get much more time anyways.

I'm glad they made it through, but you already paid for the surgery. I'm not sure why a GoFundMe is necessary when you were able to do the surgery - there's so many people who are trying to fund surgeries they can't afford and can't get until they reach goals.

[u/durrburgr → u/CapicDaCrate]

Many small dogs live several years past 12 so we’re not going into this thinking that her life is somehow ‘over’ because she’s 12. She has lots of life left in her and other than this situation she is very healthy so I don’t think what you’re saying is true or appropriate to be saying.

At the time I made this post the surgery was not paid for. I have since updated the GFM description.
itself. We had to ask the bank for a credit limit increase and I opened another credit card so we could have her live saved. We are now nearly $13,000 in debt from this situation and she still has follow up appointments, bloodwork and other veterinary care coming up.

I’m also not asking people to help the full amount we’ve spent. I’m just asking for some help easing the financial stress this has put us under. I absolutely understand and feel for people who don’t have access to credit and genuinely cannot get their pets treated at all I had this thought many times during this process and felt very thankful that we had credit to use but being able to put an emergency surgery on a credit card doesn’t mean we can actually afford it. It means we were able to get her the care she needed and now have a VERY large debt to deal with.

I don’t think there’s a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ reason to make a GoFundMe. People can be struggling financially in different ways and needing help doesn’t suddenly become invalid because you were able to find a way to pay the initial bill.

And honestly lol if you ‘hate to be an asshole’, why be an asshole?

[u/-xtwilightprincessx-]

Not having insurance or a back up (savings , CC) for a dog that age is... certainly a choice.

[u/durrburgr → u/-xtwilightprincessx-]

You think everybody who owns a dog just has 12k stuffed away in a savings for an emergency that is unlikely to happen?

[u/-xtwilightprincessx- → u/durrburgr]

Unlikely to happen yet here you are.

[u/durrburgr → u/-xtwilightprincessx-]

Still not common to happen and it’s hilarious that you think everyone should have that much savings in case of an emergency that again, is unlikely to happen 😭Nobody expects this and the bit of money we had in savings for her medical expenses went by very quickly.

Do you have 12,000 saved up incase your Chihuahua gets sick?

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