I've never done this before, and God willing, I hope I'll never have to again.
My youngest child's cat, Baby Girl, has an aggressive tumor on her leg.
(for some reason my child has not managed to get a shot of her face...)
She is a very pretty young tortoiseshell, 4 years old as of this October.
The fucker is ginormous. It didn't look quite this awful before the vet shaved it, but Jesus Christ. This poor cat is hobbling around on a leg that looks like it's mutating like Tetsuo in Akira.
The vet says they're going to have to remove the leg. Fortunately, according to x-rays, there's no sign so far of metastasis, but who knows how long that will last?
Here is the problem. I have been unemployed for four months.
I have (had?) a business. It doesn't even pay for itself anymore but I have contractual obligations through the end of February. I had a job, which ended in July -- not a layoff, it was a temp job and I got two more months out of it than I expected -- but I did not expect that I would still be jobless four months later.
The surgery is going to cost $2500 and I don't have it.
My child, like almost everyone else on Tumblr, is autistic, queer, and depressed. They've already lost pretty much their entire teens/high school years to a fatigue disorder that might be long Covid but absolutely nobody has been able to give us a diagnosis. I don't know how badly it's going to fuck them up if the cat dies of a disorder that would have been preventable if I'd had the money.
If anyone out there is able to help save this cat, please. My god. I never thought I'd be in a position to have to ask people on the Internet for money, but my credit is tanked right now due to trying to keep the failing business alive for the past year or so, and it being almost Christmas I am very pessimistic about getting a job before the New Year.
I had a ko-fi but apparently it's hung up on I do not have a business website (because I am a writer, not a business; my business has a website but it is in IT and not connected to my writing life. JFC.) I have a paypal and can provide it to anyone who wants to help me.
I can get my kid to take cuter pictures of Baby Girl; she really is a beautiful cat when the picture actually shows her with her eyes open. :-) My child has hand-raised this cat since she was born, on my child's bed, ruining the sheets :-). I'll pay whatever anyone can lend me back once I have a job, which for fuck's sake I really hope is at least January. But please, if there is anyone out there who can lend me something toward being able to save the cat... it's bad enough she has to lose the leg, but at least she'd be alive.
