Bad Medicine
Apollo had a stroke the other night.
I was feeding him when I noticed his good eye (the other one has a tumor pressing against it and makes it squint) started pulsating and moving from side to side quickly. When he tried to run away he stumbled over ad went sprawlng and when he recovered his head was lolling side to side like he was drunk.
I thought he was dying.
We frantically packed him i his carrier and took him to the emergency Vet hospital where he was being treated. When we got there a nurse came out and checked him out and despite my telling him three times to not stick his fingers in his mouth since he was recovering from oral surgery.
THings that were in his medical chart that the nurse refused to look at. Then he asked what medicines he was on...again, thing in his medical chart.
THis is were things became infuriating.
We waited an hour. And no doctor came to see us. No one came to explain anything to us. We thought our poor boy was dying and were made to sit there. This is the place where we brought him to treat his bad mouth and his cancer. and they were now ignoring him.
Wen I asked the receptionist all she told me was that someone would be in shortly. Something we'd heard 3 times before when we checked. Te woman wasn't feeling well and i was a nervouse wreck and fuming. I packed up the boy and we stormed out.
The Woman called a friend of hers who is a Vet Tech and describd his symptoms and for her advice.
When we got home i finished feeding the boy and then the phone rang. It was the doctor. He wanted to know if anyone had seen Apollo and that he apologized but they were busy ( I should point out that here was only one other patient in the hospital at the time) and that if we wanted to come back they were free now.
It was now 10 pm and the Hospital was 30 min away.
It took everything i had to not tell him to o fuck himself.
Yesterday I called our regular vet and told him that I anted to transfer Apollo's care back to him and that we needed to come up with a pain management program to make him comfortable. He agreed with me and was unhappy at our treatment at a place he referred us to.
I was feeding him when I noticed his good eye (the other one has a tumor pressing against it and makes it squint) started pulsating and moving from side to side quickly. When he tried to run away he stumbled over ad went sprawlng and when he recovered his head was lolling side to side like he was drunk.
I thought he was dying.
We frantically packed him i his carrier and took him to the emergency Vet hospital where he was being treated. When we got there a nurse came out and checked him out and despite my telling him three times to not stick his fingers in his mouth since he was recovering from oral surgery.
THings that were in his medical chart that the nurse refused to look at. Then he asked what medicines he was on...again, thing in his medical chart.
THis is were things became infuriating.
We waited an hour. And no doctor came to see us. No one came to explain anything to us. We thought our poor boy was dying and were made to sit there. This is the place where we brought him to treat his bad mouth and his cancer. and they were now ignoring him.
Wen I asked the receptionist all she told me was that someone would be in shortly. Something we'd heard 3 times before when we checked. Te woman wasn't feeling well and i was a nervouse wreck and fuming. I packed up the boy and we stormed out.
The Woman called a friend of hers who is a Vet Tech and describd his symptoms and for her advice.
When we got home i finished feeding the boy and then the phone rang. It was the doctor. He wanted to know if anyone had seen Apollo and that he apologized but they were busy ( I should point out that here was only one other patient in the hospital at the time) and that if we wanted to come back they were free now.
It was now 10 pm and the Hospital was 30 min away.
It took everything i had to not tell him to o fuck himself.
Yesterday I called our regular vet and told him that I anted to transfer Apollo's care back to him and that we needed to come up with a pain management program to make him comfortable. He agreed with me and was unhappy at our treatment at a place he referred us to.
posted by Rafael at
9:29 AM
1 Comments:
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope Apollo is now getting the treatment he deserves.
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Passionista, at 2:51 PM
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