 SOPHIE
Sophie is a blue
coat, blue nose pit
bull, which is very rare. We got her when she was 2 days old and
weighing just barely 4 oz and we bottle raised her. She is a precious
member of our family and she loves to sing to us.
My husband,
daughter and I were all devastated when we found out 2
weeks ago that Sophie has cancer. We really couldn't believe it
because she was only 1 year, 7 months and 22 days old! Age is obviously
not a factor. Sophie was diagnosed with chondrosarcoma in the right
front scapula. We took her to a surgeon, Dr. Dew, and he suggested that
we allow him to amputate from the scapula down.
Of course, this had to be performed in order to save her
life.
This was not
a hard decision to make, just hard to have to believe. The
day we found out about the cancer, my wonderful sister (Sophie's
wonderful Aunt) Holly researched on the web. She came upon the
awesome Magic Bullet Fund website as well as a wealth of other
information about canine cancer. We were amazed about the fund and
immediately started submitting our information
about Sophie and her diagnosis. We prayed that God would
lead us in the right path with everything concerning this journey we
were about to take. And we were accepted by the fund!! We felt
overwhelmed and very, very thankful!
Jenny, Daryl, Baylea and Sophie Swearingen
Springdale, AR
* Read more
about Sophie on the Featured Dog of the Month page!
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 LACY
Our dog Lacy a beautiful
girl. She is our 9 1/2 year old yellow lab and she is currently being
treated for cancer. She has just undergone successful surgery to remove
a tumor in her left rear leg around the hock area.
The most wonderful thing about
Lacy is her sensitivity. She is attuned to everything and everyone, it
doesn't matter who it is. This is true also of other animals. If
there is something wrong or if some one is feeling under the weather,
Lacy knows it. It's as if she feels it too! On the other hand, when
something great is going on, Lacy is right in there
enjoying life right along with you. She is a soul
mate to the world.
You can imagine how devastated
we were when we learned that the slight limp that she developed was not
arthritis, but a cancerous tumor growing in her leg. I just wanted to do something to
take this burdon and awful thing away from her. Being that Lacy is so
sensitive to everything and having read that some dogs can actually
smell out cancer in humans I worried that Lacy new she had cancer. I
even asked myself the question did she know and she was unable to tell
us. That thought broke my heart. When I told my two sons her diagnosis
they immediately said, "Mom we have to do something."
Something,
YES! But what? We are struggling to make ends meet after my
husband was laid off for more then 9 months. He worked
with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Ironic that this big drug
company also manufacturers many of the drugs used to treat animals. He
has recently returned to work but the time off has put us in financial
ruins and his new job pays less then half of what his old position
paid. Michigan is a state that is currently in a very bad depression.
We started circling the wagons and in my
search for answers, I accidentally came across the site that Laurie
Kaplan had started the Magic Bullet Fund- or
maybe not accidentally. I
like to
think of it as divine intervention! I had
already placed a few
emails to some other sites and did not get any reply so that is why
when
I received a response from Laurie, I think within 24 hours, I was
in awe! All I can say is that there really are wonderful people out
there. The people that support this site - we thank you all for
what you do to help us keep our friends, our companions, the
furry
members of our
families, our dogs who we love so much - to stay with us for as long as
it is
God's will.
Our home
would be a very lonely place
without Lacy!
Ronda
Jenkins &
Family
Grand Blanc, MI
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 ROOKIE
Rookie enjoys the simple
pleasures in life: the sun on his face, cuddling under the covers when
it's cold and having his chest scratched. Without a doubt, when the
weather is beautiful, you can always find Rookie outside on the lawn
chair, sunning himself.
One day, while scratching
Rookie’s chest, I felt that all of his lymph nodes were swollen. It
happened overnight. There were no other signs that anything was wrong
up until this point. I immediately took Rookie to the vet for tests,
and a few days later he was diagnosed with lymphoma. I consulted a
veterinary oncologist and we began chemotherapy, even though I
hadn't yet figured out how I would pay for the treatment. That didn’t
matter, I would find a way.
After starting
Rookie’s treatment, I set about finding a way to cover the whole series
of 19 weeks of chemo treatments. Purely by accident, I stumbled
upon the Magic Bullet Fund web site. I read the home page
and realized that we might be able to get assistance from the
Magic Bullet Fund. I told myself not to get my hopes up, but I was
very excited and hopeful. Within hours, Laurie Kaplan responded to
my plea, saying that the fund would provide financial assistance
for Rookie’s cancer treatment. The sense of relief was
overwhelming. The Magic Bullet Fund has restored my faith in humanity.
Sometimes
the breaks in life come our way and sometimes they don’t. Thanks
to the Magic Bullet Fund, Rookie got his break!
Jennifer Rendfrey and Rookie
Boynton Beach, FL
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 RILEY
This precious
10-year-old
girl was taken in by Kirstie and Glenn
Dean as a
foster dog. Surprise, surprise - she stole their hearts and found her
forever home right there with them and Gizmo and Scout, both Shelties.
Riley has lymphoma. She completed a chemo
protocol for lymphoma in Georgia in November 2006 , but came out
of remission a week later. At that time, Riley's family moved to NJ for
Glenn's new military
asgnment,
and the Deans' finances were depleted. Kirstie asked the fund to help
Riley try for a second remission with another chemo protocol.
Riley is in chemotherapy at the Red
Bank Veterinary Hospital in Trinton Falls, NJ and she is in
remission.
Kirstie and Glenn Dean
Lake Hopatcong, NJ
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