Luca Needs Surgery

So, this is really outside of my comfort zone...but I am faced with a difficult situation. Up until a couple years ago,  I was on the other side of this conversation and doing what I could to help other dogs and cats in need. Over the past couple of years, my financial life has drastically changed yet I am rich with quality time with my children, working on my terms for myself helping others and supporting my husband fulfill his dream. Soon, I pray that I will begin to live out my own dream of building an animal sanctuary on my land...but I digress...all in due time.
The reason for this call for help is our dog Luca, our rescue Doberman. Luca has a large mass on his right side that the oncologist vet has said needs to be removed. They (several doctors at facility and my own vet) agree that it appears to be a sarcoma with what the results have shown so far. Mostly, Luca is still in very good health, and runs and plays with his dog pack multiple times a day, including his little human brothers, Knox and Juda. Surgery is what is best, to remove the possibility of it spreading.  I have no way of affording radiation (quoted at $6000), the sooner we remove the tumor, the better his chance of survival and it not spreading...
So, I have been given the estimates and they are below. This is step one. And I am only asking for help because I am at a really shitty crossroads-making a decision based on what I can afford...and that just really sucks. He is a member of our family...but I can't put his needs above my own children's security. And unfortunately right now, that is what I would be doing. We are in transition and I know it is only a matter of time before I can GIVE again and not ASK....this is uncharted water for me. And I am humbled already at the experience of just writing this letter...
I am not expecting to meet this goal but if I was able to raise a portion of the total bill, we would be incredibly fortunate and beyond GRATEFUL.
My goal is to schedule surgery for Monday, June 29th. Here are the invoice estimates:


I have already spent almost $1000 between two facilities to determine that surgery is his best shot of being able to live out the rest of his life cancer-free. There are no guarantees with anything of course. I am keenly aware of that dark truth. But I would be devasted knowing that I did nothing...so, here I bear my vulnerable self in the hopes that I might give our dog a few more years...because that's what he deserves and that is my obligation. Thank you, from the deepest part of my heart, for reading this. And for anyone that is able to give, there are no words for our gratitude. May you all be blessed by the Grace of a Spirit larger than yourself. And may you share it with the world.
In LOVE, HUMILITY and LIGHT.
Ellie and her family