Lily is an 11-year-old Domestic Shorthair in Maitland, FL, who needs $2,000 for Lomustine chemotherapy.

I adopted Lily a little over 10 years ago from the animal hospital that my mom works at on Long Island. Lily was abandoned on their front porch, in a small bird cage, with her four kittens. Lily was just a kitten herself at the time, but all of her kittens had been adopted and she was left behind. When I first saw her, I knew we’d be best friends.

Lily is the queen of the housebound and she knows it. I have two labradors and they know she’s the boss, but she has a soft spot for the male lab. Lily moved across the country with me in 2017 when we moved to Colorado. She loved the porch in our condo where she would lie upside and allow the sun to beat down on her. In true cat fashion, she would always find warm sunlight to bask in.

I’ve spent close to $25,000 on Lily’s cancer treatments, surgeries, and vet visits. Despite, owing over $10,000 on credit cards, I would do it again if Lily had the ability to be cancer free.

August of 2019, I noticed a hard mass on Lily’s left thigh. I took her to the vet and her biopsy indicated fibrosarcoma. She had her leg amputated on 10/30/19, and I sent her off to Blue Pearl in Tampa for radiation treatment for a month. Unfortunately, in May the cancer returned. She’s currently be treated with chemo by Dr Evan Sones at the Animal Cancer Care Clinic in Orlando, Florida.

Lily is my everything. She’s been with me through a lot; break ups, new relationships, family loss, graduate school, and moving across the country and back. She’s so incredibly smart, and I swear she’s my spirit animal. She’s feisty and a fighter; strong-willed and knows her boundaries. She’s talkative and will meow and chirp to communicate with me.