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$420 cat vet bill today. Potential $1000 anesthesia ear cleaning in the future.. already spent over $500 treating her initial ear infection/micropchipping and shots (I caught the ear infection literally two days after she was brought home). Starting to get the feeling why the original owners decided to 'rehome' her and were not honest about her health history. Vet says her chronic possibly middle ear infection might very well have been *never* resolved when she was with her original owners. my husband is extremely upset that treatment has not helped, though it sounds like the anesthesia ear cleaning is what she needs to have a fresh start..
I feel so exhausted this week, normally I would offer sketches but I am so backed up on commissions currently I just can't do it. I have been suffering from insomnia, and that coupled with my new job and juggling some urgent freelance on the weekends, I feel like the wind has been completely knocked out of my sails. I don't feel like I can even put up a gofundme. "Can't pay the vet, don't get the pet", but this is entirely too unfair. She's too young to be having senior animal level financial bills, but surrendering her to the humane society might very well be the only reasonable decision, at least she'll have her medical needs taken care of.
I just really hate the idea that she might end up with people feeding her some purina cat chow crap like her original owners did. I saw her old medical records, and get the sense they were holding back medical care due to cost. I'm glad we got her out of that house, her old vet records that we finally obtained noted the husband wanted to declaw her and that she always had ear problems, that very well might not have been resolved because they refused further treatment, and now it's blown up to this. Well, this is Mugi. I'm not allergic to her. I was hoping to introduce her in a more positive way but I don't know what her future will be with us any more. :( I have never ever condoned giving up an animal for financial reasons, but I'm just in no financial state to tackle a potential $1000 deep ear cleaning bill and the projected six months of further treatment the vet predicted, especially of each visit averages $200.
I am so exhausted.
I feel so exhausted this week, normally I would offer sketches but I am so backed up on commissions currently I just can't do it. I have been suffering from insomnia, and that coupled with my new job and juggling some urgent freelance on the weekends, I feel like the wind has been completely knocked out of my sails. I don't feel like I can even put up a gofundme. "Can't pay the vet, don't get the pet", but this is entirely too unfair. She's too young to be having senior animal level financial bills, but surrendering her to the humane society might very well be the only reasonable decision, at least she'll have her medical needs taken care of.
I just really hate the idea that she might end up with people feeding her some purina cat chow crap like her original owners did. I saw her old medical records, and get the sense they were holding back medical care due to cost. I'm glad we got her out of that house, her old vet records that we finally obtained noted the husband wanted to declaw her and that she always had ear problems, that very well might not have been resolved because they refused further treatment, and now it's blown up to this. Well, this is Mugi. I'm not allergic to her. I was hoping to introduce her in a more positive way but I don't know what her future will be with us any more. :( I have never ever condoned giving up an animal for financial reasons, but I'm just in no financial state to tackle a potential $1000 deep ear cleaning bill and the projected six months of further treatment the vet predicted, especially of each visit averages $200.
I am so exhausted.
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She's gorgeous, and I understand your anxiety and the stress and insomnia you're feeling. I have three special-needs cats and I've been sleepless more than once trying to plot every outcome and funding decision.
You're doing the right thing trying to take care of her. Let me know how I might be able to help.
You're doing the right thing trying to take care of her. Let me know how I might be able to help.
Thanks so much! I'm trying to see if the dermatologist will quote us for a scoped ear canal cleaning. Our vet recommended a few places so we will shop around, but we should probably go with her top recommendation... quality of care between vets vary greatly, and I feel like if we had seen her first we might have gone straight to culture and scoping. I appreciate the bedside manner of the first vet, but a frank diagnosis like our most recent vet gave would have served us better in the beginning/in the long run. Though I cant blame the first vet, his diagnosis came around before we got ahold of her old records. :/
https://www.gofundme.com/mugimeow We finally got her an appointment with a specialist. At our last followup the vet sadly confirmed that she was days away from another full blown ear infection, the antibiotics just did not help. This vet's schedule is so tight, if she needs surgery she is getting it inmediately the day after. The quote runs $1400-1500 for the surgery alone, $150 for the first visit, and I don't know how much for pallitive care afterwards. :( Each vet visit has averaged $250 for just medication. If you guys can share the gofundme link I would really appreciate it!! T-T I feel so winded every time the vet gives us the bill.
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