She’s In A Race Against Time To Save Her Best Friend Koda From Cancer
A woman named Sarah is asking for help after her sweet dog was recently diagnosed with cancer. Sarah Sabatino from Chicago, Illinois, recently created a GoFundMe page for her dog, Koda.
“If you know me, you know Koda,” writes Sarah. “She’s my heart dog, my child, my best friend.”
Sarah adopted Koda back in 2020 and describes her as “a pure bundle of love and happiness.” Suddenly, Koda and Sarah’s lives were changed when Sarah noticed a tiny growth on Koda’s lip.
Sarah had to wait a while to get Koda into her usual vet, where she was told not to worry about the growth.
It was a manageable size, and the vet dismissed it. A few weeks later, Sarah found another lump on Koda’s neck.
After not being able to schedule an appointment with the first veterinarian, Sarah immediately booked an appointment with a new one. The new vet didn’t like the look of the growths and ordered multiple tests from Koda.
Not long after, Sarah received the heartbreaking results. Both of the lumps are aggressive, cancerous tumors.
The one on Koda’s lip had spread to a lymph node, creating the tumor on her neck. Sarah writes that the prognosis was dire and that she had to act fast to save Koda’s life.
GoFundMe; pictured above is Koda
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“I’m now in a race against time to do what I can to help my best friend,” Sarah said.
Sarah discovered an amazing organization called Live Like Roo, which provides support and financial assistance to owners of pets that were diagnosed with cancer. Through them, she was able to find proper specialists and surgeons to help Koda.
Because the cancer had not spread further than her lip and neck, Koda was eligible for surgery to remove both tumors. After her surgery, she will follow a treatment plan picked out by her doctors.
Sarah created Koda’s GoFundMe page because she is struggling to pay for the surgery, which is around $5,000.
That doesn’t include the cost of further treatment and medication. Although she received some funds from Live Like Roo, it is not enough.
“I have been hesitant to share this information or ask for help,” Sarah noted. “But I’m setting aside my insecurities to ask my community for support.”
Koda’s surgery was scheduled for April 11th, and although no official updates have been posted to her GoFundMe, we can only hope everything went well for that sweet pup.
To read more about Koda, visit the link here.
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