Psychotomy

So, dropped K off for his comprehensive exam this morning at the vets. We have the pet insurance, and so everything I was dropping him off for was covered. Except they wanted to give him some antibiotics with the teeth cleaning, they wanted to run an EEG (EKG?) to check his heart so they could do a bang on job with the anaesthetic, some anti-inflammatorys … those weren’t on the coverage. I declined most of them :o

Then I get a call, he had a lot of bacteria in his mouth, and since they did the cleaning, the doctor REALLY wants he should have the antibiotics, so OK. And they want to run a skin test because he has a rash on his stomach (I think it might be from the weeds I was pulling yesterday, but to be safe). And they want to give him some anti-inflammatories for the rash. And do an ultrasound on his bladder …

Bladder’s fine, but run the other tests. Then they want to give him about 3 more meds to clear up the rash an’ stuff. So I agreed to that too. Because he’s my pups!!!

All told, the 100% covered appointment is costing me 150$, and that’s with me declining another 50-100$ of stuff.

Of course, just thinking about K not being OK has me in tears, so it’s worth it. He’s my puppy !!!

Posted in: k-line by attriel /