Thanks for the well wishes everybody. It is very comforting to know you can count on your riding buddies to grieve with you and take part of the load in a time such as this. I am so glad my Boy is not suffering anymore.
If I thought it would do any good i would go dot that vet's eye for all the bad information he doled out.
I know what you mean. I had a Yorki that my vet mis-diagnosed and treated for an inner ear infection for about two months. He kept deteriorating until one night he finally crashed and got so bad he was on his death bed. In desperation, as my dog was slipping away, I rushed him the the Texas A&M vet hospital in College Station at 11:00 PM. After five hours of working on him, they were able to save him that night. The next day they did a CT Scan ($1,100.00) and they determined and corrrectly diagnosed him with a rare deciese called GME. I wanted to kill that SOB vet because he had allowed the deciese to damage my pets brain for two months. After the correct diagnosis we fought it for 16 months until it finally took him. I always knew it would but my pup and I wanted to fight it, reguardless of the hugh price tag that came with the fight. (I stopped counting at $20K). He was a "GME case study" for both Texas A&M vet college and Angel vet college in Boston and he now has a memorial plaque in his name at both campuses.
It's been just over two years since he died and I forget how tiring those 16 months were until I talk about and re-live it again.
I'll always miss him and now............. I only remember the good times with him. I hope that you get to that point very soon.
It is truley unfortunate that a lot of vets are not as good as you would want or need them to be. Same goes for human doctors. If you find a good one.........you need to stay with him because they really are hard to find. There are many that are not worth thier deplomas.
