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They Saved My Dog's Life
As some of you may recall from previous threads about dogs in public places, I have a service dog. Last Saturday she snuck out of the house while we were doing a kitchen renovation and got hit by a car. We were very lucky that the lady who hit her stopped and came looking for us, since my dog may have died of shock before we ever realized she was missing. Anyway, her back leg was broken into three pieces, but there was nothing else wrong with her (no internal bleeding or head trauma). Still, the emergency vet was telling us it would cost $3,000-$5,000(!) to fix her leg.
Well, I couldn't put a young dog down over something as stupid as a broken leg, so the ER vet gave her lots of meds to keep her pain under control and Monday morning I hit the pavement with her x-rays to see if someone would work with me. Every place I went the response I got was basically "That's going to be expensive. Have you applied for a credit line to pay for the surgery?" $3-5k was an impossible amount for me to come up with... there was no way I could get credit to pay for it, either, especially at the 19% APR the vets were offering me. If I couldn't find someone willing to help me I was facing having to have her euthanized. I was getting desperate and it was only 9:30 in the morning.
Then I found the people at James Landing Veterinary Hospital. Their first concern was that my dog was comfortable and the first thing they wanted from me were her x-rays. They promised that they would do everything they could to take care of my dog, and they have. Because she's my service dog they cut the price to a third of what every place else was quoting: a difficult price to pay but not impossible with the help of friends and family. They sent me that day to their sister clinic, the Thomasville Veterinary Hospital. She got her surgery Tuesday and is doing well. We expect to have her home late next week and the vet says she'll have a full recovery! They even think her leg will be strong enough for her to perform her mobility work of helping me get up off the ground if I fall.
I am so glad that I didn't succumb to the shock of the amount her surgery would cost that first day and fought to keep her alive. There are still people out there who will bend over backwards to help those who need it.
Thank you Dr Milliren and the staff at both James Landing and Thomasville Veterinary Hospitals for saving Goldie's life!!!
Well, I couldn't put a young dog down over something as stupid as a broken leg, so the ER vet gave her lots of meds to keep her pain under control and Monday morning I hit the pavement with her x-rays to see if someone would work with me. Every place I went the response I got was basically "That's going to be expensive. Have you applied for a credit line to pay for the surgery?" $3-5k was an impossible amount for me to come up with... there was no way I could get credit to pay for it, either, especially at the 19% APR the vets were offering me. If I couldn't find someone willing to help me I was facing having to have her euthanized. I was getting desperate and it was only 9:30 in the morning.
Then I found the people at James Landing Veterinary Hospital. Their first concern was that my dog was comfortable and the first thing they wanted from me were her x-rays. They promised that they would do everything they could to take care of my dog, and they have. Because she's my service dog they cut the price to a third of what every place else was quoting: a difficult price to pay but not impossible with the help of friends and family. They sent me that day to their sister clinic, the Thomasville Veterinary Hospital. She got her surgery Tuesday and is doing well. We expect to have her home late next week and the vet says she'll have a full recovery! They even think her leg will be strong enough for her to perform her mobility work of helping me get up off the ground if I fall.
I am so glad that I didn't succumb to the shock of the amount her surgery would cost that first day and fought to keep her alive. There are still people out there who will bend over backwards to help those who need it.
Thank you Dr Milliren and the staff at both James Landing and Thomasville Veterinary Hospitals for saving Goldie's life!!!
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