Roscoe E.

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œWe couldn’t have afforded to keep Roscoe in the ICU for days while he recovered from this emergency. I honestly believe that the donors of Ellie’s Rainy Day Fund saved Roscoe’s life and we will forever be grateful. We can’t thank you enough for your help through all of this, you have brought us so much relief, and a lot of happy tears. Thank you!
Roscoe’s Family

Roscoe E.

On one of the best days of my life, my wife surprised our family with baby Roscoe. My daughter was 6 years old then and she was over the moon with excitement.  I had always wanted a Yorkie”they’re so tiny cute have such big personalities. Though he was the runt of the litter, he did not disappoint. 

Roscoe is the first thing I see every morning.  I look at him and know he loves me more than anyone else ever could. I in turn adore him.

What’s not to love?  He licks all of us and constantly wants to be held.  He gets very anxious if he can’t be with us.  He impatiently follows us until someone sits down and gives him a lap. He wrestles with our cat.  He makes us laugh when he throws his toy bone in the air and growls at it ferociously.  Oh, and he loves his pupachinos at Starbucks!

He does all this even though he’s had various health crises all of his life.  Possibly because he was the runt, he was born without proper œplumbing to urinate.  So he came into the world needing surgery.  Since then he’s needed teeth pulled and struggled with a collapsed trachea.  We’ve always done what we could for our boy.

But when we discovered he was in a ketoacidosis crisis from diabetes AND had acute pancreatitis, we were panicked!  Without being hospitalized in the ICU, he had very little chance of making it.  After all we’d been through together, we couldn’t lose Roscoe now.  Plus cancer had just taken my father-in-law in May and none of us felt we could take one more loss.

We couldn’t have afforded to keep Roscoe in the ICU for days while he recovered from this emergency. I honestly believe that the donors of Ellie’s Rainy Day Fund saved Roscoe’s life and we will forever be grateful. We can’t thank you enough for your help through all of this, you have brought us so much relief, and a lot of happy tears. Thank you!

–Roscoe’s Family