Testing and Treatment for Finn
Donation protected
This is hard for me to do. So. Hi. Finn is sick and we need your help.
The shortest, simplest version of this story that I can give you is that over Christmas Finn ingested a toxic substance. Something in High Park. It may or may not have been put there intentionally by an evil person. Anyway, the point is that it nearly killed him and it totally destroyed his liver. Ever since then he has not been quite the same. The smallest things trigger a huge systemic reaction. If he eats something weird, he’s sick for days and gets dehydrated. He constantly has awful digestive issues. We have been in and out of the vet once or twice a month since his accident. I’ve emptied my savings and exhausted my resources.
I thought that things were starting to level out and get better but a couple of weeks ago I noticed a hot spot on Finn’s inner thigh, which turned out to be a skin reaction that we couldn’t quite diagnose but that went all down his leg. We treated it with a steroid cream and antibiotics (which he reacted to really badly with intense digestive issues, which we’ve been treating simultaneously). It seemed to be improving slowly until yesterday when it got much, much worse very suddenly. Now he is covered in mysterious scabby welts. He is hot, red all over his body, bleeding and impossibly itchy. He is not eating or drinking much, he’s visibly hurting and I can’t help and I don’t know what else to do.
Finn saved my life- honestly. He is directly to thank for my still being here today. I got him when he was 8 weeks old and I was in the first days of my recovery from a month-long stay in the hospital. He got me out of bed every day when I couldn't have done it for myself and he brought me more happiness than I knew was possible. He's continued to do this for me even when I've been in the darkest, scariest places with my health and I need to exhaust every possible avenue to do the same for him and somehow repay him for his incredible 6 and a half years of friendship to me. We are a unit and I love him more than anything else in the entire world.
I have reached a point where I may have to surrender him in order for him to receive the testing and treatment he needs and I am trying to find any way imaginable to avoid this so that we can stay together. So here I am, asking for help in a way that I could never have imagined doing.
Finn deserves treatment. He deserves a diagnosis and he deserves a happy, pain-free life. I want to give that to him and right now I need your help to do that.
The 3000 I am asking for will help to cover the following:
Exam and initial treatment of his wounds
panel testing for immune issues
panel testing for allergies
treatment when we discover how to fix whatever is happening
You have my word that if ANYTHING comes in over what I spend for Finn that it will be donated.
Thank you the most from both of us.
The shortest, simplest version of this story that I can give you is that over Christmas Finn ingested a toxic substance. Something in High Park. It may or may not have been put there intentionally by an evil person. Anyway, the point is that it nearly killed him and it totally destroyed his liver. Ever since then he has not been quite the same. The smallest things trigger a huge systemic reaction. If he eats something weird, he’s sick for days and gets dehydrated. He constantly has awful digestive issues. We have been in and out of the vet once or twice a month since his accident. I’ve emptied my savings and exhausted my resources.
I thought that things were starting to level out and get better but a couple of weeks ago I noticed a hot spot on Finn’s inner thigh, which turned out to be a skin reaction that we couldn’t quite diagnose but that went all down his leg. We treated it with a steroid cream and antibiotics (which he reacted to really badly with intense digestive issues, which we’ve been treating simultaneously). It seemed to be improving slowly until yesterday when it got much, much worse very suddenly. Now he is covered in mysterious scabby welts. He is hot, red all over his body, bleeding and impossibly itchy. He is not eating or drinking much, he’s visibly hurting and I can’t help and I don’t know what else to do.
Finn saved my life- honestly. He is directly to thank for my still being here today. I got him when he was 8 weeks old and I was in the first days of my recovery from a month-long stay in the hospital. He got me out of bed every day when I couldn't have done it for myself and he brought me more happiness than I knew was possible. He's continued to do this for me even when I've been in the darkest, scariest places with my health and I need to exhaust every possible avenue to do the same for him and somehow repay him for his incredible 6 and a half years of friendship to me. We are a unit and I love him more than anything else in the entire world.
I have reached a point where I may have to surrender him in order for him to receive the testing and treatment he needs and I am trying to find any way imaginable to avoid this so that we can stay together. So here I am, asking for help in a way that I could never have imagined doing.
Finn deserves treatment. He deserves a diagnosis and he deserves a happy, pain-free life. I want to give that to him and right now I need your help to do that.
The 3000 I am asking for will help to cover the following:
Exam and initial treatment of his wounds
panel testing for immune issues
panel testing for allergies
treatment when we discover how to fix whatever is happening
You have my word that if ANYTHING comes in over what I spend for Finn that it will be donated.
Thank you the most from both of us.
Organizer
Katie Desormeaux
Organizer
Toronto, ON