This is a guest post written by Jana Rade of Dawg Business.
You take your dog for a routine rabies vaccination. At first she just seems under the weather, which is not unusual for her. But then, the hell breaks loose. Your dog is hospitalized with high fever, extreme lethargy and inability to walk. Diagnosis? Vaccine-induced meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the brain the the lining around the brain).
A week in an intensive care, fighting to save her life. Finally your dog is stable enough to be released from the hospital, and you start on a journey of recovery, full of struggle and setbacks. The bills are piling up but you keep fighting for your dog's life.
Then, a half a year into the recovery, a major setback. Your dog is back in intensive care, at a brink of death. This time it is the brain stem which takes the biggest hit. She is totally out of it, high fever, cannot move much at all, heart rate is dangerously low.
With intensive care your dog makes it through again. However, you're told that the inflammation has set up a camp and drastic measures need to be taken to safe her life.
In addition to all the medications she is already on, she is going to need multiple courses of specialized chemotherapy in the attempt to get the inflammation under control.
Your finances are already drained. What if you cannot afford what your dog needs to survive? If she relapses again, before you can recover financially, she will either die or need to be put down. You don't even have any more money to afford the chemotherapy.
Your dog was perfectly healthy before that rabies shot.
This is what happened to Lilly of Champion of My Heart.
I've been in such situation; twice. The first time we did have to put our dog down, because we simply didn't have the money to save her life.
The second time, an online community of dog lovers answered our call for help. I have never been so thankful in my life! Today, this is a call for help to save Lilly. Can we be there for her?
You take your dog for a routine rabies vaccination. At first she just seems under the weather, which is not unusual for her. But then, the hell breaks loose. Your dog is hospitalized with high fever, extreme lethargy and inability to walk. Diagnosis? Vaccine-induced meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the brain the the lining around the brain).
A week in an intensive care, fighting to save her life. Finally your dog is stable enough to be released from the hospital, and you start on a journey of recovery, full of struggle and setbacks. The bills are piling up but you keep fighting for your dog's life.
Then, a half a year into the recovery, a major setback. Your dog is back in intensive care, at a brink of death. This time it is the brain stem which takes the biggest hit. She is totally out of it, high fever, cannot move much at all, heart rate is dangerously low.
With intensive care your dog makes it through again. However, you're told that the inflammation has set up a camp and drastic measures need to be taken to safe her life.
In addition to all the medications she is already on, she is going to need multiple courses of specialized chemotherapy in the attempt to get the inflammation under control.
Your finances are already drained. What if you cannot afford what your dog needs to survive? If she relapses again, before you can recover financially, she will either die or need to be put down. You don't even have any more money to afford the chemotherapy.
Your dog was perfectly healthy before that rabies shot.
This is what happened to Lilly of Champion of My Heart.
I've been in such situation; twice. The first time we did have to put our dog down, because we simply didn't have the money to save her life.
The second time, an online community of dog lovers answered our call for help. I have never been so thankful in my life! Today, this is a call for help to save Lilly. Can we be there for her?
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