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Update 1/6/09: After a long battle with lymphoma, George passed away on November 29, 2008. Please read his story below and please donate to the Magic Bullet Fund if you can to help other dogs just like George fight cancer. This is a wonderful organization with an amazing director, Laurie Kaplan. The Magic Bullet Fund is helping dogs fight cancer everyday and they could put your financial support to good use.
George's fight: Hi everyone! This is my absolutely wonderful dog, George. He is a three-year-old American Bulldog and he was diagnosed with lymphoma on Friday, Sept 19, 2008. He was so bad by the time we finally got a diagnosis that the doctors told us he probably would not make it through the weekend...but he did! He went into the hospital on Sept 8, 2008 because he stopped eating. We had him in there for about three weeks battling dehydration while they ran test after test trying to find out what was wrong with him. Then they found a mass in him stomach that Friday and determined that it was lymphoma and that it was most likely lurking in other organs as well.
Right after that first dose of chemotherapy, he did a complete turn around clinically! Medically, he still has a way to go. But, he is eating and gaining weight, and loves to run and play again. He really seems to be in good spirits and after four chemotherapy treatments, he is responding really well to the drugs! I can only hope that he will stay in remission!
But to do this, we really need yours and everyone else's help. Chemothreapy is very expensive and our family is living on a budget already. I am a recent college grad and just started my first job with a very modest salary and my husband is in the military and currently seeking full time employment. We have a two-year-old son, Taveon, to take care of, too. With day care costs, car payments, bills, student loans, gas, ect. I just cannot afford the chemothreapy treatments (which run about $300-$500 p/week for 12 weeks! or $1000 every three weeks!) If I had the money, trust me, the cost would be no object to save George's life. I simply just don't and I think if we all pull together we can make it work!
I have so much faith in George! He is doing so well! All he needs is to just keep pushing and pushing and hang in there and he will make it! That's what I keep telling him. And so far (like always) he's listened.
George is just a great dog with and awesome spirit and enough charisma to fill a room. I wish that each and every one fo you that visits this page could meet him in person! He is my love and my life and my everything and he's everything to our family, too. He is my husband and I's "first child" and my two-year-old's best friend.
George loves to run outside, chase sticks, watch football, do 360's, wrestle, tickle little kids, eat Dingo Bones, drool, sleep in the middle of the bed and take up all the room and he really likes to give love and get love back. Lets hope and pray that we can come together financially and continue making life possible for George! He deserves a fighting chance! If you can help George pay for chemotherapy, we'd greatly appriciate it!
George thanks you for reading all about him and we look forward to hearing from you!
Erica, Jason, Taveon and George Cameron