Friday, October 13, 2006

Why is it so hard to find information on your vet?

Our poor little puppy has to have another operation. Well we went to the vet place that we have started to take her to, it is just up the road from where we live. We get a random vet as we don't really know any of the vets there, and Bunty needs her distemper jab. The vet we saw looked like she was just out of college! She wanted us to have cytology done on a lumpectomy. Which is plain dumb because we know that Bunty's tumours are malignant, she has had mammary tumours for several years and this will be the sescond op that we have put her through for them! I asked what the advantage of having cytology was, and she said that way we would know if the tumour was malignant and if they should take the whole mammary gland out. Excuse me? Put the dog through two operations? I don't think so, so we said it is more expensive to take the whole gland out? She said no! So why would be have a lumpectomy with the risk of needing another op, if we can just have the whole gland removed? Less trauma on the dog for sure. Well she went away and did another quote (why we needed a quote I am not sure) and once again she had included the cytology!!!! I told her I would take the tissue to work and do the cytology myself (LOL!) she said I could if I wanted to! ARGH! So anyway, I just phoned the vet clinic to ask who their best surgeon was and this woman was one of them!!! LOL So I said, oh, well, who else? LMAO! Anyway we are scheduled for a consult with one of the top three on Monday, we will see if they will just remove all the remaining mammary glands, and thus prevent Bunty from keep needing to have these ops. But when I went to look the vet up on the internet, there was no information about her anywhere! So now I am wondering why you can't find information out about your vets the way you can about your human doctor. I mean for some of us it is just as important that we have a good vet and a good doctor! Esp after the last butcher did so much damage to our poor little puppy.

BTW the seamonkeys are doing well, they have settled down now and there about 12 left, swimming around in their little island paradise.

Later.

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