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anniernc · 04-09-2009, 05:50 PM

I lost my little Abbey 3 yrs ago due to a severly collapsed trachea. She also had an enlarged heart and due to the many episodes she had with her difficulty breathing she had lung damage. I did not know until our first visit to the emergency vet on the night we lost her that she could have a procedure done to put rings down that would keep her trachea from collapsing. They do it with a endoscope. I will never forgive the vet I had at the time for not telling us about this procedure when she was first diagnosed. She suffered with this for 2 years and on the last night when I was told about this procedure the emergency vet said that she would not make it through the procedure. I would give anything if I would have taken her to have it done because maybe she would have made it. I don't know how much this procedure cost.

04-09-2009, 05:50 PM	#2
anniernc YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Brooks, Ga. Posts: 1,003	I lost my little Abbey 3 yrs ago due to a severly collapsed trachea. She also had an enlarged heart and due to the many episodes she had with her difficulty breathing she had lung damage. I did not know until our first visit to the emergency vet on the night we lost her that she could have a procedure done to put rings down that would keep her trachea from collapsing. They do it with a endoscope. I will never forgive the vet I had at the time for not telling us about this procedure when she was first diagnosed. She suffered with this for 2 years and on the last night when I was told about this procedure the emergency vet said that she would not make it through the procedure. I would give anything if I would have taken her to have it done because maybe she would have made it. I don't know how much this procedure cost.