Lucy is a 13 year old Mix-Breed in Vernon, CT, who needs $5,000 for Surgical Biopsy.

Back in 2013, I was fostering for a cat shelter and a box of orphaned kittens were left on the steps of a church not far from where I live. These kittens were about a week old with no mother, so I became their mom until it was time to adopt them out. I was able to find good homes for them all, except Lucy. She was adopted out by one of the other volunteers, but the home she went to was inadequate.

After Lucy dealt with living in a cigarette-smoke-filled home, she was finally taken away. After that I adopted her, and she attached herself to me as if I was her lifeblood. She remembered that I raised her. I was mom. Since, she has remained attached to me and only me. If I sit or lie down, she curls herself up around my neck and sometimes on my face.

Lucy hates cat food. I have to make her a special home made dish of food every day because she won't eat it unless it's freshly cooked. And she only likes dark meat chicken, so every day I cook up a chicken thigh or chicken leg and mix it with special cat vitamins and minerals with taurine. But, lately, she hasn't been eating well. My vet found a mass on her liver and thickening of her intestines.

As it turns out, Lucy needs surgery, a biopsy, and possibly more depending on the diagnosis. I am on disability for autism, and I am older now, so I cannot afford the surgery. Lucy is all I have left. I've lost so much in the past couple years, I can't lose her too.