Disabled Veteran's Service Dog Veterinary Expenses

My priority right now is trying to raise funds to help pay for her weekly bandage, splint and cast changing. in total this is going to be between $820-1260 (6-9 weeks, once a week at about $140 each visit). I will also need assistance with physical therapy costs when shes ready for PT in april. If anyone can help donate past the amount needed for bandage and casting to help with physical therapy or towards my charges already incurred I would also be grateful as im not sure how im going to be able to afford physical therapy or even keep up with payments on such a large bill from her care already received.
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Update: 02/15 - Today Luna was released home with me.  I had no choice but to max out my credit card for surgery and hospital costs. It was $5479.83 and i was able to overpay by $75 so that this can be applied to paying for some of her re-bandaging/splinting and incision cleaning and checks.
I Need to be able to bring Luna in every 7 days for the next 6-9 weeks in to have her bandage replaced, incision cleaned and a new splint and cast applied. The cost of every visit is going to be $140.00 weekly. This is going to be an additional $820-$1260. I am at a loss of how i am going to manage this with my income when my card is all maxed out. I am in desperate need of some financial assistance to help cover these costs so that she can heal properly without the risk of infection.  After her splints are removed she will also need physical therapy. 

To read my original posting and what happened to luna, about my situation and how luna is so important to me as a service dog, please scroll past the pictures below.

Here is proof of $ amounts and highlighted is the information on cost to bandage and how often it needs to be done. I apologize that they are sideways its the only way it allowed my to position them without cropping the photo too much:






Feb. 14, 2020

Hello - My name is Kayla and I am looking to raise funds to help pay for care that my service dog needs.  I am on a fixed low income and am struggling financially. 

This is whats going on with Luna and how she is so important to me as a service dog.
The estimate for her surgery and meds, hospitalization, etc is $5500-6500. this is not going to include any follow up, post op care, physical therapy etc that she is going to need, or whatever else may come up. Anything for a donation is greatly appreciated.

On 02/13 Luna and I were playing in the living room. She jumped up in the air and when she landed, she did so clumsily and ended up breaking her back leg. She is currently still there at the vet. they did xray and confirmed it was a break and casted it and held her overnight to wait for the surgeon.  

02/14 - She is in surgery now as i write this at 9:45pm.. A little bit of her tibia is broken and most of the break is in her fibula. (by her ankle). The ortho surgeon is hoping that the collateral ligament isn't torn and that the bone simply was just pulled off when it broke. He wont be able to tell until he gets in there to look and puts the bones back together (most likely going to need 2 pins and a wire). If it its torn then he will need to reconstruct the ligaments as well.  She will need to be restricted in activity and in a splint for 6 weeks , changing splint weekly. followed wearing a soft pad for 2 weeks then some range of motion therapy as she is going to be very stiff after being non-weight bearing and splinted for so long. 

I am currently waiting for the surgeon to call me back when she gets out of surgery to hear more of whats going on. 

Here is a little about me and the importance of Luna and her job as my service dog. 
thank you for taking the time to read this if you make it to the end. This is hard to just put out there for the world to see, but i dont know what else to do to paint a picture on just how important she is to me.  If i cannot provide her with the appropriate medical care i am scared that i will have to surrender her to a rescue or worse -  euthanize her if i cannot place her in a rescue or new home that is capable of taking care of her medical bills that are stacking up from this injury. as devastating as it would be to give her up, it is simply not fair for me to keep her if i cannot give her the medical care she needs. I am terrified.

I am a service connected disabled veteran and Luna is my SD who is actively engaged in a veteran service dog training program local to me in Massachusetts called Company 2 heroes. I am unemployed due to my disabilites and employment is not an option at the moment. Luna has been absolutely perfect for training and i couldnt ask for a better battle buddy / service dog to aid me with my impairments. During my time of service, i sustained an injury to my left foot and ankle that caused deformity and still impacts my day to day living. It has caused secondary problems in my alignment in my knee, hip and spine accompanied by some other conditions. Physical pain is something that I have just learned to deal with. I have adapted fairly well with my physical impairments although Luna is definitely helpful with retrieving items for me. Where Luna is more of my savior though is with my psychiatric disability of C-PTSD, severe social and general anxiety. While i was in service, I was a victim of MST (Military sexual trauma).In my childhood I also endured sexual trauma repeatedly, psychological abuse by various caregivers that I lived with and was in a few scary domestic violent relationships not too long ago, one of them was so severe that it was physically life threatening. The impact that these traumas have has on my day to day living is severe. I of course am engaged in therapy but Luna has been my saving grace, she is my lifeline. I do not know what i would do without her. She gives me a sense of independence, purpose, hope and security that therapy could never provide.
Some tasks that she has either already mastered or is still working on learning are:
-by turning on lights when i have nightmares so that i can see that nobody is in my room and that i am safe, this helps keep my anxiety and panic down tremendously upon waking from a nightmare.
-To block/watch my back in public places. She can stand behind me as a buffer so that i dont need to panic as bad and feel as hypervigilant that someone is going to come up behind me and hurt me. Knowing she is there as a blocker to keep people from getting too close is something that sounds simple, but this gives me a huge freedom. some days it is extremely difficult for me to leave the house even to just get groceries. i am embarrassed to admit that i even go without food for a couple of days at times as it is simply just too difficult for me to feel safe outside. With luna being able to block (and will be learning crowd control as well) this has drastically increased me being able to leave the house. I am working on also teaching her to lean into me when someone gets too close behind me to let me know. 
-Interrupting or alerting (pawing) to repetitive anxious behaviors (picking at my skin, bouncing leg, fidgeting, pacing), panic attacks, crying, nightmares. i dont always realize when i do these behaviors and it is helpful to have her interrupt them because the longer they go on, the more it feeds my anxiety or panic
-a response to the alert for those things listed above by helping me ground by licking my hands, tactile stimulation of allowing me to pet her, or laying across my legs or chest for pressure therapy (similar to what a weighted blanket would do) to help me come out of my episodes. 

there are a few more things that we are looking to add into her tasks that will only continue to increase my quality of life and independence.

I know it doesnt qualify as a task but just having her with me makes me feel safer because even though she is such a sweetheart with not a single mean bone in her body that would bite anyone, i feel as though i am less likely to be chosen as a victim for attack if i have a dog with me so this even helps on things like going to check my mail, bringing out the trash, doing laundry. I am constantly in fear of being revictomized any time I leave my house.

I wanted to provide this photo below as some confirmation of my story (ive blocked out personal info of address and phone numbers of emergency contact on her SD training organization card and my ID).  I will also be attaching veterinary documentation on dollar figures, procedures and f/u care needed tomorrow. I have a care credit card but it is going to be maxed out very fast and i dont even know if it will cover everything needed when it is time to pick her up from her hospitalization. it is highly unlikely that i will be able to keep up with all the payments with my income. i dont know what to do. i called and asked for an increase on my card and got a little bit of one after lying about my annual income just so I can try and cover some of the expenses immediately but it just simply is not going to be enough. i am absolutely torn and feel as though this is my only hope.