{"id":3160,"date":"2015-05-21T19:50:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T02:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2023-04-19T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:44:27","slug":"bulldog-gets-knee-surgery-with-help-from-ahf-angel-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/bulldog-gets-knee-surgery-with-help-from-ahf-angel-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldog Gets Knee Surgery  With Help From AHF Angel Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Hades-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Hades-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hades 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>In January, 2014, Juli Bill was struggling to make ends meet. She was a nursing student at Long Beach State and paid the family bills with a part-time job at Disneyland and child support payments. Juli has two children \u2013 an 18-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son. An animal person, she has two dogs \u2013 an American Bulldog and a Weimaraner \u2013 and a horse that is boarded in Whittier.<\/p>\n<p>So it was not welcome news when she learned that Hades, HHa 130-pound bulldog, needed knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI noticed that he was having some issues standing up in the morning when I took him outside,\u201d she said in an interview. \u201cI thought at first that he was just a little stiff. But when he had to go out in the middle of the night and he couldn\u2019t get up and started dragging his rear end \u2013 that really concerned me. That\u2019s when I took him to the vet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She went to Los Alamitos Animal Hospital. \u201cIt was actually both of his knees,\u201d she said. \u201cWe did one and now we have to do the other.\u201d But that first cruciate repair surgery was more than Juli\u2019s budget could handle. Her daughter was about to graduate from high school and there were extra bills to pay. She set up a website about Hades and got about $1,000 in donations from friends \u201cand a lot of different people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Claudia Horvath, the hospital\u2019s medical director, told Juli about Angel Fund. \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for them (Angel Fund), I don\u2019t know what I would have done,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was no way I could afford the surgery on my own.\u201d Angel Fund and the hospital each contributed $500. The staff at the hospital, Juli said, was fantastic. \u201cThey did everything for me. Everyone was so helpful and informative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the surgery, she said, Hades had to be sedated before she could take him home to her house in Lakewood. Today, he is a happy dog \u2013 but he limps because the other knee is still unrepaired.<\/p>\n<p>Juli is now planning his second surgery. She put her nursing education on hold and has left her Disneyland job, which paid just a bit more than minimum wage, for a full-time job at the California Department of Motor Vehicles. \u201cIt\u2019s a good job. I have fun there, although it\u2019s not my calling,\u201d she said. But it pays the bills and she has been saving for Hades second surgery. She will do it when she can take vacation time so she\u2019ll be at home during the initial stages of his recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, 2014, Juli Bill was struggling to make ends meet. 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