This girl goes in for her surgery on Monday 1-26-15. We wanted to have her get her umbilical hernia fixed at the large hospital Access with all the bells and whistles, but it was going to be $4000.00. Quite the number which took a while to sink in. Our local vet has a surgeon who comes around to do harder surgery for local hospitals for about half the price. That put the cost more in the range of something we could afford. We had wanted to offer this girl at a discount, but we are already taking a huge financial loss to give her a normal life so she will go at the normal price of $500 for straight eared white kitten.

She such a sweetie and we’ve been hoping every step of the way that she would make it to the weight needed to even have surgery. My husband took the call on the cost of the two options and started crying when he got the news. He had thought the cost was too much to even consider and thought we’d have to give her the best life possible with the short time she would have before the hernia presented a complication. I simply texted him back from work that we’d unfortunately have to use the cheaper surgeon and hope he’s skilled enough to get her through it. It was devastating news, but luckily with the money from the siblings (which most of the money from this litter will go to save this kitten) we can afford the surgery as long as it doesn’t become complicated and the price start to go up exponentially mid-surgery.

We’ve been bombarding her with canned food to help her put on any extra ounces she can to make surgery just a tiny bit safer with atheistic. And we’ve been giving her lots of attention just in case she doesn’t make it. Here’s hoping for a quick and successful surgery to give this little angel a full normal life ahead of her.