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12-03-2011, 09:05 AM | #31 | |
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12-03-2011, 09:12 AM | #32 | |
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I couldn't believe it. I knew she would be positive when i took her in for the blood work. | |
12-03-2011, 09:15 AM | #33 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Kentucky
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| I so sorry for your loss, losing a pet is never easy but add rude and uncaring people at this very sad time in your life is just so wrong. |
12-03-2011, 09:21 AM | #34 |
Resident Yorkie Nut Donating YT 20K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas
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| First of all, I am SO sorry about your loss. I am also sorry about the way you were treated. As for the vet saying they are not at fault, maybe not legally, but I can tell you that a back to back treatment like she got is not really recommended any more. Some vets still do it, but it is terribly rough on these pups. Nothing that can be done now, but I would probably be looking around for another vet if this one is doing such things. Is he AAHA accredited? If not, again, I would start shopping for one that is. My vet gives four months of Heartgard...then one injection...and the other is one month later. That is the recommended protocol now! There are other things done, but that is just a quick explanation. Here is a link with information about heartworms and treatment: American Heartworm Society | Canine Guidelines Hope was lucky to have had someone in her life that tried to help her in the best way she knew.....poor baby...it is so sad that she even got heartworms. A cheap monthly dose of heartworm preventative would have prevented it. I am so sorry.
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12-03-2011, 09:50 AM | #35 |
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| I'm sorry for your loss. I think you should take a few days to collect your emotions and gather information and write a very direct letter. This is obviously a case of not only an upset individual over the loss of the dog but moreso coupled with a classic case of lack of office management. You should write down the dates of visist and the reasons you are upset what happenet each visit leave out your emotions until the ned. Just note on (example) 12-2-11 we came in for a 3:45 apt. waited a reasonable 5 minutes to check in and then while checking out were left standing at the desk another 5 minutes while I was completely ignored and then told by the receptionist"..." I find this attitutde highly unprofeswsional and think you should be aware of this issue in your offie I'd write the letter to all owners of the practice since this effects all of them there after you note the examples or incidents especially the constant misscommunitcation over the phone etc... At the end I'd say "after talking with multiple people in the community about these instances I was assured my displeasure with your office's service wasn't just me but other's said how they would not be interested your practice if they had been treated this way because it is unacceptable." Just don't mention the specific community is YT... I'd not go too into how you feel about the loss of Hope it will detract but I might say something like how in such an emotional time the last thing someone needs is to have a bad experience with office staff acting unprofessional and the office management being so lackign in effiency also make me rethink the aspect of the veterinary care received there as well. Sometimes a letter really is sucessful-you just might want to tgive ourself the time to put it together in a way that will bennefit the future relationship there. I'm thinking with your persona I see here you'd much rather see they have a positive change than to just rant to them.
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12-03-2011, 09:56 AM | #36 | |
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I posted on facebook about the whole thing and a member of a resuce that i am friends with ,called me to let me know that they had already checked all of the okc surronding areas and farther out for the medication because they had a couple yorkies with heartworms. They knew of one vet who had one vial left but it expired in just a couple days. So if I wanted it was available and she would let the vet know that their resuce was declining it. So that is how it came about that her not getting the pre treatment. She did okay during that first month for crate rest. she did have coughing episodes and then inflamatory pneumonia. But showed great signs of improvent. But Nov. 12 she started these episodes of staggering and collasping. We were in and out over thoses last weeks on lots of different meds but our vet kept saying that that it was complications to the treatment but she should recover. I asked about the staggering and falling and even specificlly asked this is something that would kill her because sometimes it was really bad i would go pick her put and she would be awake and breathing but lifeless she couldn;t even hold up her head. The last week. On nov 19 she didn't eat for 2 days and she would vomit most times she drank up they said it was the enalapril mixed with the Theophyline (spelling) so to stop the Theophyline. she started eating and made such great inprovement i truly thought we were in the clear. Thanksgiving she woke up and wouldn't eat but i thought it was cause i tried to sneak alittle dry food in her chicken, rice, and broth. she collasped for the last time that night and it was a bad episode so i put her in her crate to drink and she vomited again that was when she stopped breathing and we started CPR after she was gone I just sat an held her for over an hour. | |
12-03-2011, 10:33 AM | #37 |
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| We are so sorry for your loss.
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12-03-2011, 01:34 PM | #38 |
Resident Yorkie Nut Donating YT 20K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas
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| Very sad...she must have had a very bad case of heartworms.
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12-03-2011, 01:36 PM | #39 |
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| I was kind of suprised to read how they treated you! Shame on them!!! But I am soo sorry for your loss!!! May beautiful little Hope Rest In Peace.
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