{"id":4655,"date":"2026-04-05T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:17:05","slug":"an-astounding-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/an-astounding-success\/","title":{"rendered":"An Astounding Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The past couple weeks have been full of ups and downs and amazingly wonderful things. It actually all started back in December 2025 when I noticed a lump under Abbey’s skin on her tummy. By February 2026, the lump had become bigger and was now bulging out. In mid-March I took her to her vet who took a sample from the lump and looked at it under a microscope. A few of the cells looked unusual and she couldn’t identify them. She then diagnosed it as a fatty tumor and that it needed to be surgically removed as it was likely to keep growing and could be cancerous. They gave me a cost estimate for the surgery topping around $800. That particular vet visit cost over $300. The next vet visit was $100 plus a $250 fee for a full blood workup which was all good news except that she had a high white blood cell count which could also be a sign that the tumor was cancerous. We live on a very small, fixed income. It just so happens that the house insurance and a couple other huge bills are also due in March. We were in dire straits. I posted about Abbey’s health issues on Facebook and my friends there suggested I start a Go Fund Me to help out with Abbey’s vet bills. So, I did even though I wasn’t really expecting any but a few people to actually donate money to save my little buddy. Wow was I wrong!<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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I posted the\u00a0<\/span>link to the Go Fund Me<\/a>\u00a0on my Facebook where all of my artist friends are and also on my\u00a0<\/span>Simularity Patreon<\/a>\u00a0where all of my Sims mods fans are. The day I started the Go Fund Me page was also the very day that we had to say goodbye to Pixie. I was so afraid that I was going to lose Abbey too. Then something wonderful happened, people started donating… several people and they were making sizable donations while others were sharing the link so that more people would see it and potentially donate. It literally made me cry tears of joy. Thanks to those donors, we were able to pay for Abbey’s surgery to remove a potentially cancerous tumor from her tummy! So far, it has raised $1,192 which will cover most of her recent vet bills. I am so grateful to everyone who helped out!!<\/span><\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Abbey had her surgery the morning of March 30th and it was an astounding success! During the surgery they discovered that it was just a fatty mass on her umbilicus and not a tumor. They also discovered she had a small hernia that needed to be fixed (which they did) before it could become a bad problem down the road. When I got the call explaining all of this and that she made it through the surgery with no complications, I was so incredibly relieved. She is currently asleep on my lap and doing great. Now if I could just get her to stop scratching at the stitches with her back foot…<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abbey needed surgery to remove a possibly cancerous tumor; a surgery we couldn’t afford. That’s when my friends and fans came together to see us through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,90,4,71],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-chihuahua","tag-health","tag-life","tag-pet","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"builder_content":"

The past couple weeks have been full of ups and downs and amazingly wonderful things. It actually all started back in December 2025 when I noticed a lump under Abbey's skin on her tummy. By February 2026, the lump had become bigger and was now bulging out. In mid-March I took her to her vet who took a sample from the lump and looked at it under a microscope. A few of the cells looked unusual and she couldn't identify them. She then diagnosed it as a fatty tumor and that it needed to be surgically removed as it was likely to keep growing and could be cancerous. They gave me a cost estimate for the surgery topping around $800. That particular vet visit cost over $300. The next vet visit was $100 plus a $250 fee for a full blood workup which was all good news except that she had a high white blood cell count which could also be a sign that the tumor was cancerous. We live on a very small, fixed income. It just so happens that the house insurance and a couple other huge bills are also due in March. We were in dire straits. I posted about Abbey's health issues on Facebook and my friends there suggested I start a Go Fund Me to help out with Abbey's vet bills. So, I did even though I wasn't really expecting any but a few people to actually donate money to save my little buddy. Wow was I wrong!<\/p>\n

I posted the\u00a0link to the Go Fund Me<\/a>\u00a0on my Facebook where all of my artist friends are and also on my\u00a0Simularity Patreon<\/a>\u00a0where all of my Sims mods fans are. The day I started the Go Fund Me page was also the very day that we had to say goodbye to Pixie. I was so afraid that I was going to lose Abbey too. Then something wonderful happened, people started donating... several people and they were making sizable donations while others were sharing the link so that more people would see it and potentially donate. It literally made me cry tears of joy. Thanks to those donors, we were able to pay for Abbey's surgery to remove a potentially cancerous tumor from her tummy! So far, it has raised $1,192 which will cover most of her recent vet bills. I am so grateful to everyone who helped out!!<\/p>\n

Abbey had her surgery the morning of March 30th and it was an astounding success! During the surgery they discovered that it was just a fatty mass on her umbilicus and not a tumor. They also discovered she had a small hernia that needed to be fixed (which they did) before it could become a bad problem down the road. When I got the call explaining all of this and that she made it through the surgery with no complications, I was so incredibly relieved. She is currently asleep on my lap and doing great. Now if I could just get her to stop scratching at the stitches with her back foot...<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4692,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions\/4692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}