From what I've read here, Giardia can be hard to get rid of. It can hang around and apparently it sometimes takes several rounds of antibiotics. But that doesn't mean your puppy will never be healthy. It's just going to take some determination on your part to keep at it.
The first thing I did when we got our puppy, having had a few vet visits with our cat already, was to sign up for health insurance through VIP insurance. Just google VIP pet insurance and you will find it. Their monthly rate is around $12 for the standard plan and about $19 for the premium plan. The standard covers illnesses but no regular visits and the premium plan covers all illnesses as well as regular check-ups and precedures. So far, in my experience, I've gotten about %50 of the cost of vet bills reimbursed by the insurance. Since I have the standard plan, I don't get reimbursed for check-ups and vaccines.
Also Petsmart has an onsight vetinary clinic that you can get a plan for and that covers all costs of the regular check-ups plus a fair percentage of the costs of visits for illnesses.
Unfortunately, the Giardia probably won't be covered by any of them since it has been diagnosed and now is considered a pre-existing condition. But for everything else that may come up, I would definitely sign up for the insurance right away before anything else comes up. On the VIP website, you can look up their rate sheet of just what each plan covers and how much you get back for different diseases and illnesses. |