Boo
Boo was a sweet boy the shelter took in shortly before Christmas 2003. He was not in the best of shape and his belly was HUGE, full of tumors. He went in for emergency surgery on the 22nd. The doctor found a HUGE masse in his abdomen, attached to his colon.
Dr. Karen Purcell visited the shelter and donated her time and energy to perform surgeries on many of the ill shelter kids. Boo was one two of them. When Dr. Karen opened him up, she was originally really optimistic that she could remove the tumor. Then she saw the tumor (which was the size of a baseball) had grown straight through the entire vena cava (main heart artery). The tough decision was made not to wake Boo Bear up and he crossed the Rainbow Bridge.
