Tsuki is not doing well, guys.
The day I brought her home, she scratched constantly - so much so that she bled. She couldn’t sleep through the night, I couldnt sleep at night. After 2 months of diagnostic work ($1500), we found out she was atopic (inhalant allergies manifested in dermal itching). Now I give her allergy shots every three weeks ($240 a year).
For awhile everything was fine, until about a week before my India trip. Tsuki could barely walk three steps without plopping down soon after. I took her to the vet and he tells me she has degenerative disk disease - a condition usually affecting dogs twice her age with long backs (i.e. dachshunds!). The vet told me it would get worse and she would need a $2000 spinal surgery. Upon my return from India, Tsuki was very, very, very bad… she was panting and whining constantly and could barely walk. I was not informed of her condtion when I was away. I took her to the emergency vet that night, where they pumped her full of pain meds and suggested I look into the surgery.
A few days later (while breaking up and trying to find a place to live) I make an appointment with the neurosurgeon - without even looking at the x-rays (convieniently forgot to have them transferred), he decides that its not her back… its a tick-borne infection. He gives me antibiotics and codeine. I get the bill, $550 - and my dog is literally unchanged. She is in so much pain, I have no idea what I’m supposed to do. I cannot keep throwing money at the vet if they aren’t going to actually fix her. I feel like such a moron for letting him charge me $200 for a PCR - I bet he didn’t expect me to know what that ish is, I do it for a living.
So on top of everything (in case you hadn’t noticed, I’m single now, and my mother disowned me), I am wondering how the hell I can afford to keep Tsuki alive without completely destroying my own future. I didn’t expect this much, so SOON.
I just transferred more money out of my savings for the next vet trip, I just hope they actually EFFING HELP HER THIS TIME.
So basically FML. I can basically forget about ever getting ahead in life.
I didnt want to resort to begging.. but here it is
http://tsuki.tumblr.com/
April 06, 2009, 8:53am Comments
