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Originally Posted by katelin  Wishing you the best of luck. I've never heard of a vet that wouldn't assist a sick animal, payment or not. Be sure the vet understands that you have a very limited budget, and they should take any treatment one step at a time.
Since it is almost Sunday, I would suggest waiting until Monday for the vet. Off hour consultations are very expensive. Do you have him on as bland a diet as possible? Rice, baby food chicken meat, lots of water (put a little Karo syrup in the water to make it more attractive to him and so he will drink it and not get dehydrated.)
Hoping for the best possible outcome here. |
Thank you so much! I had never imagined a vet not helping a sick animal either, however, a couple of years ago, I had to take Max to the ER clinic here b/c he was sick...it was pancreatitis but it happened to be of course, on a night when my dh was out of town (he works out of town and is gone all week), on his way home, but he had his credit card and checks...and even if I'd had them, the clinic wanted 2 pieces of HIS ID if I were to use one of them ANd my dh had (as usual) left his cellphone charger at home and his battery went DEAD while I was at the clinic nearly hysterical (it was AWFUL).....in addition, for them to let me leave him there overnight with IV's (this was after they'd done the blood test and x-rays and whatever else they did in the 5 hours I sat there, scared to death), they wanted the ENTIRE amount upfront. That was over $1000. And I, of course, didn't have anything to give them. They made me sign an IOU (b/c my dh would be home later that night and I promised to bring them a check the next morning), and I had to take Max HOMEwith me and just hope that he made it thru the night til I could take him to my own vet the next morning and leave him for the weekend. I'm still not over that experience.
The kicker to this is that two of the vets who work at my own vet (in fact one of them IS my vet, although she wasn't there this night and the vet that we saw, I'd never seen before at all) are the vets at the clinic
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Which, even though my vet wasn't involved, it kind of put a bad taste in my mouth. But.....I am taking him into my vet tomorrow, God willing nothing bad happens today! I was just so worried that this would escalate over the weekend and I'd have to take him back to that place!
Thankfully, it looks like I won't!
I am giving him just boiled white rice that's been cooked with a small amount of ground turkey and just small (like 2 Tb at a time) amounts. He's taking water now without any problem, and I picked up some nutrical yesterday, for just in case. Although, when he's not eating, he refuses everything, but I wanted to have it anyway. At least he's eating now and keeping it down! Again, thank you!