JessiKate
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The paragraph after the first break is the main part if you want to skip to it!!
So if anyone has seen my other threads kickin' around you may know already that my chin, Darrell, had to undergo surgery for this mouth issue. Anyways, the vet I've been taking him too isn't in town-(it's so hard to find a chin doctor!)-so we took him down Thursday night and he spent the night there and had his surgery yesterday morning. We went and picked him up last night and the bill was pretty insane. I talked with the vet to see what all went on and got the bill knocked down (they were giving me MORE buprenorphine even though I already had enough and a new med to switch with the metronidazole). Anyways, I didn't take the extra Buprenorphine nor did I take the other med to switch. (I can't remember what it was called but it started with a Z). It was to help with any pain. Instead they told me I could lower the dosage of the metronidazole so he hopefully wouldn't get the 'drunk' effects from it. (nerological issues)
Anyways, they brought him and his meds out to me (they gave me the refilled/new buprenorphine by accident but I'm not complaining). Darrell was all mopey looking but I thought it was just from the surgery and he always looks mopey when going to/leaving the vet.
So I pay my bill and head home. I didn't give him any meds because I wanted to wait until this morning so I could get him on a good med schedule and I had no clue when they gave him meds last. But during the night before I went to bed I noticed he was being weird. Just sleeping a lot, looking kind of dead, you know? And I kept checking on him and what not and figured again, it was a long day and he was out from the surgery.
But now this morning I got up at 4am with my boyfriend (he was going to work) and noticed Darrell was laying kind of weird and so I picked him up and brought him out and now he's laying on me but he's laying REALLY oddly. Again, the only way I can describe it is he looks dead. (he's breathing, don't worry!) I gave him his meds thinking maybe he's in pain and that's why but it's been an hour and no change. ALSO his nose is runny now and he's kind of sneezy. He doesn't fight me at all, his ears are down, his tail is down, I laid him on his back for a minute so I could get a look at his mouth area and he didn't protest at all and just kind of flopped into position.
Every time i have taken him to the vet he has come back worse. In all honesty it feels like he's going to pass on me today (as weird as it is I've had several cats pass on me and they've all looked pretty much the same as my poor Darrell). I feel like I've been ripped off and like they really have made things worse.
The first time I went in he was acting pretty normal except for not eating hay, losing weight, and having his penis stuck out but then of course they told me what was ACTUALLY going on so they gave me the 3 meds. I put him on the meds right away and he gradually got worse. I took him back and they told me to keep giving him the meds and that he'd lost more weight. blahblahblah, foodfoodfood medsmedsmeds. Took him back and now this.
I just feel like I paid $600 (that I do not by any means have) for them to basically speed up my chin's death. Has anyone else had any similar experiences to this? Where you take them in and they come back worse?!
I wish I would never have had to put him through all of this
So if anyone has seen my other threads kickin' around you may know already that my chin, Darrell, had to undergo surgery for this mouth issue. Anyways, the vet I've been taking him too isn't in town-(it's so hard to find a chin doctor!)-so we took him down Thursday night and he spent the night there and had his surgery yesterday morning. We went and picked him up last night and the bill was pretty insane. I talked with the vet to see what all went on and got the bill knocked down (they were giving me MORE buprenorphine even though I already had enough and a new med to switch with the metronidazole). Anyways, I didn't take the extra Buprenorphine nor did I take the other med to switch. (I can't remember what it was called but it started with a Z). It was to help with any pain. Instead they told me I could lower the dosage of the metronidazole so he hopefully wouldn't get the 'drunk' effects from it. (nerological issues)
Anyways, they brought him and his meds out to me (they gave me the refilled/new buprenorphine by accident but I'm not complaining). Darrell was all mopey looking but I thought it was just from the surgery and he always looks mopey when going to/leaving the vet.
So I pay my bill and head home. I didn't give him any meds because I wanted to wait until this morning so I could get him on a good med schedule and I had no clue when they gave him meds last. But during the night before I went to bed I noticed he was being weird. Just sleeping a lot, looking kind of dead, you know? And I kept checking on him and what not and figured again, it was a long day and he was out from the surgery.
But now this morning I got up at 4am with my boyfriend (he was going to work) and noticed Darrell was laying kind of weird and so I picked him up and brought him out and now he's laying on me but he's laying REALLY oddly. Again, the only way I can describe it is he looks dead. (he's breathing, don't worry!) I gave him his meds thinking maybe he's in pain and that's why but it's been an hour and no change. ALSO his nose is runny now and he's kind of sneezy. He doesn't fight me at all, his ears are down, his tail is down, I laid him on his back for a minute so I could get a look at his mouth area and he didn't protest at all and just kind of flopped into position.
Every time i have taken him to the vet he has come back worse. In all honesty it feels like he's going to pass on me today (as weird as it is I've had several cats pass on me and they've all looked pretty much the same as my poor Darrell). I feel like I've been ripped off and like they really have made things worse.
The first time I went in he was acting pretty normal except for not eating hay, losing weight, and having his penis stuck out but then of course they told me what was ACTUALLY going on so they gave me the 3 meds. I put him on the meds right away and he gradually got worse. I took him back and they told me to keep giving him the meds and that he'd lost more weight. blahblahblah, foodfoodfood medsmedsmeds. Took him back and now this.
I just feel like I paid $600 (that I do not by any means have) for them to basically speed up my chin's death. Has anyone else had any similar experiences to this? Where you take them in and they come back worse?!
I wish I would never have had to put him through all of this
