VCA animal hospital. Bad vet, no cookie for you!!

Baye bear is the love of my life. This Dog brings me so much joy and happiness that i cant describe to you with out sounding weird. We adopted baye in august. Healthy handsome man. Smart, beautiful German shepherd. I was in love before he got to the house. Well in september i told eric i wanted to take him to the vet because his breathing just wasnt right. Eric knowing i wouldnt let him say no, said sure babe make an appointment. We had no pets prior to baye so i did a search on vets in the area, read reviews and called a few places. VCA university animal hospital was the one we picked. Near the university on island. 20 mins away from home. We set up the appointment and that was that. the night before his appointment i was getting worried. What if this and What if that. So many things could be the problem. Or i could just be being a worry wart. Well the next day baye got in the car with ease and enjoyed the trip there happy as can be. When we were in the exam room with baye's vet, Dr. Leeloy, I told her i was very concerned of bayes heavy breathing. Also that he was just adopted and i wanted vaccines and tests done, fecal and heartworm included. So shot after shot he took it like a champ. By the time it came to leave he was happy to get in that car. In the mind of a human this is just another day, i wonder what baye thought was going on, I wonder how he perceives these things. Well anyways we arrived home and that was that if we get a call back then he has intestinal worms or heartworms if we dont get a call, hes good to go. The vet expressed to me that his heavy breathing was due to him being a bigger dog. A few days went by and we hadnt received a call back. My heart is calming down by now the thought of heart worms in boo boo would break my heart big time. Months go by and baye is healthy as can be . We start fostering a puppy. Penelope (penny) The sweetest pup ever. Baye and her would play for hours and hours. Happy as 2 dogs could be. January arrives and i feel a bump on bayes ear. Well sure enough a little while after i first found this mystery bump His ear is HUGE. Like a pillow. Like pillow ear. Also known as a ear hemotoma. Oh boo bear you have a boo boo. So i start calling animal hospitals to find out how much this surgery will cost to repair his ear. I called dozens of veterinarian hospitals and it looks like its going to be anywhere from 600 dollars to 1000 dollars Damn vets on their high horses thats what that is. So i call bayes vet and tell them i need an appointment because he has pillow ear. After being on hold for ages they made an appointment for the next day. I was kinda surprised because usually it is like a week till you can be seen. So now im nervous his ear could be more serious than it seems. So the next day I get dressed take baye for a walk and then head to the vet. When we got there it was sorta full. I sign in and im about to sit when they call baye and i in. In my head im like crap this is bad. "Exam room one please. Do you want some water? does baye need some water?" said the tech. I said " im fine baye would love some though im sure, Thank you." So we sit and Water comes in sure enough baye wanted some. Ive never had an experience like that where they ask if we want water. im super worried by now and notice there is a unopened box of tissues sitting in the room. Now im getting weirded out. its just a hematoma... Its fixable why in the world are they being so nice to me. Faye the hospital manager comes in and says sorry for the long wait (a whole 5 minutes if that) Dr leeloy will be right in. and she left. WTF WTF WTF is going on. Im seriously at this point freaking out. Leeloy comes into the room and opens bayes chart. She says oh wow his ear is very inflamed and i said yeah.. it kinda popped up outta no where. She then says well Just to recap, His fecal sample came back negative but unfortunately he is heartworm positive. WHAT THE F@&$. My heart sunk. My head spun and I nearly passed out. "hes what?" is all i could get out of my mouth. "Im sorry for the mix up but hes heart worm positive and has been since your last visit" WHAT THE F&@%. ARE YOU SERIOUS. "No hes not check the charts, You guys didnt call me, He was negative, You never called. He cant be heart worm positive. You didnt CALL!" Im sorry Mrs. Robinson, there must have been a mix up, The chart must have been filed prior to you getting a call back we are really sorry. With his condition though there is no way for him to have surgery on his ear. "So what now then." i said. "Well, you have a few options, one is you can leave it be, Causing pain and a slow but sure death."No," i said. Well two, We can treat it with 3 shots and hope for the best but these shots going in at one time could cause serious complications and possibilities for clogs in the veins and arteries leading to his heart, Causing death. Or the last option is we do the shots over time. It would be a 4 month treatment and it has a high rate of survival." She said. "How much"i asked" "Well Mrs Robinson, The price of the treatment is almost 1000 dollars." I died. I lost my mind. We didnt have that money. We were going to lose baye. My love, The one thing that was keeping my head held high when times were rough and i wanted to just stop caring i couldnt because this dog, This pound dog gave me hope and love. Even though he had been through so much. So much pain and heartache and so much confusion all he gave me was love and because i didnt call to make sure he was negative he had been suffering for months. WOW way to go chrys, you so get the mommy of the month award. So what do i do, I cry. I wasnt just crying i was sobbing. And honestly there wasnt anything i could do other than cry. My brain was so overloaded my heart was shattering and all i could do was cry. Leeloy stood there opening up the tissue box. Staying silent with ease. Im sure she was worried of what i would do next. Starting to pull my thoughts in, I start thinking wait a minute you a holes didnt call. You talk about the best service. YOU DIDNT CALL. HE COULD HAVE DIED. With a sniffle i said "Well, Im not paying 1000 dollars. You guys are incompetent. You should have called me and you did not. You should have noticed i didnt make an appointment for this. You should have realized i wasnt informed, AND YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED." Well Mrs Robinson let me go talk to someone and well see what we can do for you. She left. She left baye and i in this cold small room. This room that was so blank and empty to me, Just baye and I. Baye sat down next to me placed his head on my lap and waited. Waited for a pat of "its okay boo bear" The pat was coming but the encouragement behind it was fake and i know he knew it was. He got up and went to the door. Looked at me like alright mom Lets go your sad and we should go for a car ride those always make me super happy. "Its okay boo, Everything is okay. Its okay Its okay its okay."I said. Still crying Faye entered the room. Hi Mrs Robinson Im faye the hospital manager, Im really sorry for this mix up but im not sure what it is you want us to do. she said. Im not paying 1000 because you guys effed up. your all absolutely incompetent and had this been a real hospital and baye was my son. My son with cancer that was left unnoticed by me because the hospitals staff failed to notify me You would be sued and serious consequences would arise. I dont have the money and i cant pay 1000 dollars. I will not allow him to suffer any longer you, you will find a way for him to get this treatment," I said. Well Mrs robinson this hospital excepts the pet credit card if you would like to fill it out you will be able to afford the treatment if approved."she said. OMG ARE YOU SERIOUS? I said"No, I want this price cut up. I want to pay little or nothing. This is your hospitals fault and you need to realize it." Well mrs robinson please wait and i will see what we can do." she said. I waited, I waited longer than long. i waited in this room. My brain was like scrambled eggs, And my heart was as if it were a fine piece of crystal thrown against a boulder. I felt my body was dying and my soul was shriveling up. The thoughts in my head were, Im going to lose him. The love i have for him doesnt make a difference im going to lose him. Faye comes in at just the right time and says we can do it for 400 dollars. I said ok um i want to pay that per visit so 1oo dollars each time we bring him in. And i want the number to your higher up. This isnt over. Im so upset with how you all run this business and i will bring attention to you and this one specific incident. I will not lay down i will fight for the rights of animals and all animal lovers, your hospital was incompetent and absolutely negligent. "Okay mrs robinson ill get you that number, doctor leeloy will be right in. She left im starting to get angry. The anger i held wasnt i wanna hit something anger it was more of a fire burning deep within me. He could have died was basically all i had circling through my head. I want everyone to realize that i am a pro-life fighter. Every life on this earth is precious(except bugs ick) I will fight for life, Dog abuse is unacceptable and veterinary hospitals being incompetent is unacceptable. I was and still am fighting. Well long story short lol, We set up an appointment for the next day for him to start treatment. Take xrays and whatnot. The treatment was 3 shots of Immiticide, An arsenic based shot given in the lower lumbar muscle. Painful yes. More painful was that he is on restricted activity no more walks and penny my love had to be given back to the program in which we fostered from (pawprintsrescue.net) No more playing with baye no more fetch nothing we basically had to pretend he didnt have legs and need to sleep all the time. The first shot was given the next day the next 2 shots a month later. The month after that he was given ivermectin a liquid given orally to kill the larva of the heart worms and this is where were at. January 21st he received his first shot. In five days he is tested for heartworm. And by god i am praying for that test to be negative. There are possibilities that it isnt. That he still has it and then we would have to go through treatment again. My worry and hopes are meshed together. This is my baye bear. please please make him okay please find his life precious to live please help me find the strength to handle a positive test. My heart slowly is breaking. The thought of a positive test is so scary and i dont know how to handle that. Eric leaves soon how do i handle losing baye if that were the case. How Do I deal? I am a catholic. I will pray to god, I will find the strength for baye and for myself. He will make it. And he will be negative. VCA university hospital of Honolulu SUCKS and once were done with treatment with him there i believe we will be switching vets.

Thanks for reading my rants on this. Had it swimming in my thoughts and needed it out and about.

Dog park Mayhem.

This happened last year. Baye and I went to the dog park. I was really excited for him to get a good run in. He loves the dog park. Well when we got there no other dogs were there. He ran around and peed on everything there. twice. When i was getting ready to pack up another dog came in. What looked like a white german shepherd. I grabbed baye by the collar and waited for the lady to get her dog inside and shut the gate. she smiles and said hi as did I. What happened next totally flip floped my day. Her dog attacks baye. We broke them apart and I get my leash out. She said would you like to try that again. I dont think they got to properly meet. i said sure and i only said sure because baye is a lovey dog. His best friend for gosh sakes is a small dog that has loads of energy. Takes lots for him to get annoyed and still he wont hurt a fly. So We let them sniff each other. Baye is good and happy smelled the white dog and was ready to just run around. So i took him off his leash she let go of her pup and i figured things were good. Her dog ran up to baye and attacked AGAIN. This time was a more aggressive. baye wasnt biting her dog he was just growling as if he was the wiser of the 2 and knew that this type of behavior wasnt acceptable. Well i was the first to step in. I grabbed baye and went to push her dog away when it bit me. And im not talking nip i mean full blown bit me. I threw my brain for a loop. Baye went insaine. It was like a switch being flipped. im guessing he saw it and instantly went into protection mode. Id never seen him like that before and honestly never want to again. We separated the two dogs and she says to me. Im sorry he tends to be aggressive. HELLLO STUPID ITS A PUBLIC DOG PARK. No aggressive dogs aloud. Apparently that rule doesnt apply to her dog. I hook baye to his leash and notice blood on him and alot of it. This was when my heart sunk. All i could think of was boo boo is hurt and its basically my fault. I do a quick check to see where all this blood was coming from. When i noticed it was all over me too. but wait it wasnt his blood all over me, No it was my blood all over him. When her mutt bit me it bit me hard and deep. Threw my muscle and caused loads of bleeding. I grabbed our junk and start the walk home. The lady said nothing. Im almost positive she saw i was bleeding lets not mention the blood drops that landed on the concrete. by the time i got home my adrenaline was pumped up i was shaking and scared that if i was bleeding that meant baye must have too because he took the brunt of it. Not caring about my wound i check baye. He had some cuts and some blood but nothing too bad. i threw on some peroxide and tripple antibiotic, and then came the time for my boo boo. I grabbed some rubbing alcohol, paper towels, and head for the bathroom. Sure enough this thing was deep. And pretty bloody. I put rubbing alcohol in the hole. Dabbed up the blood around it and notice all the bruising surrounding the bite. In my head im thinking, Well i can wait to see if i need to hit up the ER letting infection set in and maybe cause more issues than needed or i can just go. Who knows maybe all i need is a band aid. I dont like hospitals and i dont like doctors. But this was something i figured i should head in for. Lets not mention the pain setting in around my arm. I text my dear friend and tell her i think i might need to go to the hospital. Her knowing how i am with docs says shed be right there. And she was. I had enough time to kiss baye on the forehead give him a treat and tell him i love him I Head outside to smoke a cigarette and half way through there she was. Eric was on duty and had no idea what was going on with his wife. We head for trippler and it was pretty packed sat there for ten minutes and instantly got moved to my own place. I was set to have xrays taken to see if my bone was chipped or fractured. No issue there. So then im sent to get some pain killers up stairs from the pharmacy that was close to closing. I get them and head back down to be cleaned out. They numb my arm up and clean the wound. im told that if stitches arnt an absolute necessity they wont do them due to the bacteria that festers in a dogs mouth. So i got stitch tape and and loads of gauze. The place some pads on my arm. Wrap it with gauze wraps and then place an ace bandage on it. Im told my muscle has a nice hole in it and that limited movement of my arm is best so it can heal quicker. its been probably about 6-7 months since this happened and my arm has healed very well. only thing i have is a Gnarly scar. Thanks to my friend becky it wasn't as bad as it could have been if i waited and let the bacteria take control of my insides. And thank you to baye who protected his mommy. Love him!!!

Snuggle Bug

So the other night Eric and I had just walked baye. We were so ready for bed. It had been a long day and sleep was looking so good. We laid in bed and sure enough I couldn't for the life of me fall asleep. POGO TIME. I snagged the lappy and hopped on pogo for some card games with becky. After the last scare of bed bugs I am super paranoid I feel like i have bugs on my skin whenever I'm in bed. So sure enough as I'm playing bingo (lol grandma in training here) I feel like i have a bug on my thigh. "don't look don't look don't look there isn't anything there your paranoid silly willy" I tried to calm my nerves but after a persistent annoying crawling feeling on my bare skin on my thigh i feel that i have got to look. I pull back the blankets and AHHHH BBBBBBBUGG on my leg. I cant tell you how funny it must have looked throwing the lappy down doing a silly dance on the bed before leaping into the bathroom and hitting the bedroom light on. My dear husband being how he is stays in bed. While I'm spazzing out in the bathroom unable to control my mind and body Eric is so confused he has no idea what is going on. The only words i could say were "Bug in the Bed" with the last time with the scare of bed bugs And it being nothing, I'm sure he was thinking "woman will you get in bed and stfu" I love my uncontrolled mind telling him about this bug because looking back it made no sense. it was basically like a combination of bug, bugs, bed, bu bu bu in the, and there are. I love my husband he puts up with loads of hysteria from me. So He was probably thinking this was just Chrys freaking out. finally Eric moved my laptop and there was nothing there. I told him to get the heck outta bed and that we had to search for this monster of a bug. Poor Eric Because he had to get up early for work the next day its already 11 or so at night and I was spazzing out. We remove and check each blanket from the bed. Eric being so tiny there are many. The bed was striped of everything except the allergen blocker mattress cover. I lifted the bed and the boxspring and there was nothing. I left the bedroom. I went into the bathroom, shut the door sat on the toilet shaking thinking OMG I'm freaking crazy! I saw it tho. There was def. a bug. So at this point i feel that Ive lost my damn mind. I thought up a bug, Placed it in bed and lost complete control of my mind and body. I left the bathroom and all i could tell Eric was I saw it, You can think I'm crazy but i saw and felt it. "I believe you babe but its not here now, Come to bed." Eric said with complete compassion. I couldn't bare the thought of sleeping in this room let alone the bed with this potentially real or made up bug. The search was nearing completion, I was feeling absolutely crazy with each second that clicked by. Eric was replacing all the blankets and i just kept saying I'm not crazy and no way in hell am i sleeping in this damn room i saw a bug, it was on me. Eric had put on all but 2 blankets When all i hear is a mixture of ewww and ugh, Here's the lil effer (he swore i wont lol) I looked where he was looking and i see a fast moving big bug. It crawled under another blanket, I moved the blanket and sure enough i see the snuggle bug that made me feel like i was losing my mind. Gotta love Hawaii cause the nasty thing was a centipede. Lets not mention i was wearing Just short shorts so the thing was on bare skin and in my "safe spot" I through a glass candle on top the thing and continued my freak out. I was so glad though that i wasn't going crazy. I truly had this nasty thing on me and it was real. threw on a shirt told Eric to get a paper plate and continued my hysteria. We placed the paper plate down next to the candle i scooted the thing on it and trapped it with the candle as before. Now came the hard part of getting it down stairs. Eric didn't want to do it so i took his man cards grabbed my snuggle bug and headed for the garage. Eric in combat boots and boxers and me wearing short shorts and a baggy tee shirt get the thing in the garage. I grabbed hairspray and Eric grabbed an old flip flop. Then we debate who has to kill it and how. Eric kindly let me do it. I take the flip flop remove the candle and squish it. But wait its still moving, No legs now but trying as though it were a snake to escape. Eric took his foot moved the flip flop back over it and stood on the flip flop with a few wiggles back and forth with his foot he killed it. Now before my neighbors told me all about these things how they are poisonous and that they needed to be burned after killing due to the fact they release a pheromone that attracts more. so i hair spray the MF and torch him. Combat boots and boxers Eric opens the garage and threw the thing in the dumpster. I HATE BUGS. I hate being paranoid but i hate bugs more. So now Ive been having the worst luck ever with falling asleep. We sprayed the house with ortho so we wouldn't have any other issues like that again but i still feel freaked. I make myself a little safety barrier with a fleece blankey and a sheet. Eric laughs but its the best way for me to get some sleep. And when i say sleep I'm only getting a few hours each night. Which is making me more and more paranoid with the lack of sleep. Eric having duty doesn't help at all. Because then i have to sleep alone. or with baye which is a pain sometimes. Ive tried sleeping aids but they don't help. the only thing that helps is my oxycodone from when i was bit by a dog last year. Left over because i didn't like how i cashed out anytime i took it. before i was freaked out thinking i was losing my mind, Made up a bug that didn't exist. Now i know I'm losing my mind because i cant fall asleep because I'm scared of bugs. Stupid hawaii and ur stupid bugs.