Emergency Surgery for Xena
Fundraising campaign by
lok kee siu
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HK$9,530.00raised of HK$70,000.00 goal goal
No more donations are being accepted at this time. Please contact the campaign owner if you would like to discuss further funding opportunities
Campaign Story
Xena is our precious little local Hong Kong cat adopted 4 years ago. She has always been a very sweet and playful cat whose resilience has always impressed us.
For some time she has been having very serious breathing issues and we always thought it was due to feline viral rhinotracheitis (FVR) as she has been tested positive with this when she was little and the vet suspected it was likely this reason. Several months passed and she was getting worse to the point of not being able to breathe much at all and constantly struggling with inflammation. We also found some blood in her nostrils which had me super worried.
We immediately took her to the vet again and insisted on doing more tests to get to the bottom of this. We did all tests imaginable and our suspicions were proven right, she had a polyp that was causing a massive infection inside her ear and nose and unfortunately she required a more serious surgery known as a bulla osteotomy, this involves the complete removal of the ear canal and tympanic bulla (middle ear). If left untreated the polyp could grow pressing into her brain and causing the bacterial infection to develop into meningitis which is deathly.
The cause of it is unknown though it may be congenital, and the vet said it could even be recurrent though if the surgery is done well, the probability should not be so high.
Thankfully the surgery went well but the costs of all of this was unexpectedly high and continuous to grow upwards to over 75,000 HKD as we have to continuously monitor and do more frequent vet checks and a variety of medications.
We would be eternally grateful if we could receive any help or if you could share this post. This really means everything to us as we would do anything to save her.
Organizer
- lok kee siu
- Campaign Owner
- Hong Kong, HK
Donors
- Donald Edgar
- Donated on Nov 10, 2021
- Donald Robb
- Donated on Nov 10, 2021
- Kathleen Hauser
- Donated on Nov 03, 2021
Xena needs a feeding tube
Update posted by lok kee siu at 01:47 pmSo unfortunately since Xena came back from surgery she has not been eating at all and we’ve had to force feed her both food and medication. Since she isstill very weak and losing weight, they vet decided today to put a feeding tube which meant another round of general anaesthesia
Xena finally pooed today !!!!!!
Update posted by lok kee siu at 12:39 pmI know it may sound silly I’m celebrating a poo but it had us sooo worried cuz she was not able to poo since last Thursday so it’s basically been a week!! And she still has low appetite so we need to force feed her but the fact that she
Receipts
Update posted by lok kee siu at 12:36 pmJust sharing some of the receipt for full transparency but we are sososooo incredible thankful for all the donations so far ! We have no words to express how grateful we are and just Hope Xena can recover as soon as possible
Donors & Comments
- Donald Edgar
- Donated on Nov 10, 2021
- Donald Robb
- Donated on Nov 10, 2021
- Kathleen Hauser
- Donated on Nov 03, 2021
- Tif
- Donated on Aug 09, 2021
- Kiral Lam
- Donated on Aug 07, 2021
My best wishes and a speedy recovery
- Heily C
- Donated on Aug 06, 2021
Get well soon Xena!
- Grace Brown
- Donated on Aug 05, 2021
Good luck Xena ❤️ 💪🏽
- Alice Zhang
- Donated on Aug 05, 2021
Get well soon Xena 💪
- Anonymous
- Donated on Aug 05, 2021
- Anonymous
- Donated on Aug 05, 2021
Stay strong and get well soon~