{"id":3827,"date":"2019-10-31T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T07:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2023-04-19T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:36:00","slug":"angel-fund-helps-trojan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/angel-fund-helps-trojan\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Fund Helps Trojan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One day last October, Yolanda Magallanes, took Trojan, her four-year-old pit bull mix, to get some exercise in the park across the street from her Fountain Valley home as she frequently does.\u00a0 All went well until it was time to go home.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t want to walk,\u201d Yolanda said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t want to go anywhere.\u201d And when they entered her house, he defecated on the floor. \u201cThat was not normal for him. I figured he had a little tummy ache.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she went to bed that evening, Trojan did not come in to sleep with her. \u201cHe has done that since day one. He just wanted to lie on the tile floor.\u201d He was lying in the same spot when she got up in the morning.<\/p>\n

Before leaving for work, Yolanda called her sister, Irene Caudillo, and asked her to come get Trojan and take him to see her veterinarian, Dr. Mark Malo at Garden Grove Dog and Cat Hospital. \u00a0She met her sister there.\u00a0 Dr. Malo did not have good news: He said that the dog was in bad shape and might be dying, she said.\u00a0 He wanted to take x-rays and install an IV.<\/p>\n

When Yolanda returned a couple of hours later, Dr. Malo said that the x-rays showed a large mass and that Trojan needed surgery.\u00a0 He asked her to take the dog to a specialty hospital.<\/p>\n

After what she described as a \u201croyal\u201d welcome for Trojan, the specialty hospital did an MRI and \u201cput me in a room and said the doctor would be in soon to talk to me.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 When the doctor entered, Yolanda said, she was told that her dog had a large mass and needed surgery immediately.\u00a0 There was a 65% chance that the mass was cancerous, the doctor said.<\/p>\n

The doctor told her: \u201cYour choice is either emergency surgery now or put him down. \u00a0If you\u2019re keeping him alive, it\u2019ll cost you $6,000 to $8.000 for the surgery.\u00a0\u00a0 And with the cancer treatments [that follow], you\u2019ll continue to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yolanda asked: \u201cWhere am I going to get that kind of money? \u00a0I don\u2019t make that kind of money.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have that kind of money.\u00a0 The doctor said, you might want to consider putting him down.\u00a0 And I said, putting him down is not an option.\u201d<\/p>\n

She asked for a few minutes with family members, who were at the hospital \u201cto figure this out.\u201d\u00a0 But the doctor told her, she said, that \u201cwe need a decision within the next few minutes.\u201d\u00a0 She felt pressured.<\/p>\n

Yolanda began to sign the paperwork that would permit the hospital to euthanize her pet.\u00a0 \u201cBut I just couldn\u2019t go through with it,\u201d she said.\u00a0 Irene offered to lend her $4,000, the sum the hospital wanted before the surgery would be performed. After the credit card transaction, Trojan was taken into surgery.<\/p>\n

Following the operation, Yolanda was told that the mass was not malignant and that her dog had suffered a ruptured spleen. Today, Trojan is a happy, healthy dog and Yolanda is \u201calmost done paying the money, little by little, that I borrowed from my sister and from my bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she asked the specialty hospital about finding help for the surgery bill, they mentioned Angel Fund.\u00a0 Yolanda called the fund and was impressed with how she was received.\u00a0 \u201cAngel Fund was very good to me,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cThere was no waiting period and the lady I talked to was very nice and very polite.\u00a0 She was great.\u201d\u00a0 She was granted $500.\u00a0 After a call from Dr. Malo, she said, the specialty hospital reduced her bill by 10 percent, more than $800. \u00a0She also received a grant from another charitable group.<\/p>\n

Yolanda did not see her relationship with the specialty hospital as one of trust.\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t feel that they were communicating with me,\u201d she said.\u00a0 The day after she took Trojan home, she took him back to see Dr. Malo.<\/p>\n

She is a single mother who has raised two sons, 19-year-old Edward and Michael, 18, without help from their father.\u00a0 Both still live at home.\u00a0 She works for Advance America, a short-term loan company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One day last October, Yolanda Magallanes, took Trojan, her four-year-old pit bull mix, to get some exercise in the park across the street from her Fountain Valley home as she frequently does.\u00a0 All went well until it was time to go home. \u201cHe didn\u2019t want to walk,\u201d Yolanda said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t want to go anywhere.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grant-recipients","category-dogs"],"yoast_head":"\nAngel Fund Helps Trojan | The Animal Health Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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