Did you ever feel that the
world has too many sneaky or stubborn concepts up their sleeves?
Most decent people know
enough to give information clearly before asking for consent of an innocuous
although expensive procedure even on a dear pet.
Let me give you the scenario,
since I must have totally confused you by now.
A month before Skipper, our
lovable canine, is due for his yearly checkup needing his shots and heart-worm
test and license; we make an appointment with his same doctor’s office since he
has been a pup that we had done for his predecessors as well.
I do ask periodically for the
cost, since that has gone up in the past, and so when I called this year I was
given the same price as last year of $137 and of course the additional charge
of his heart-worm and flea protection meds. (And we put aside that amount yearly
when we know, being on a small set income.) That the woman who I have known all
of Skipper’s life stated, since she was his puppy school teacher, she said that it
would actually be less money, about thirty or forty bucks less to buy the combo
meds. this year and I said that’s great remind Hubby!
You see, this is the first
year that I did not go with them, since Hubby cannot figure out how to push me
in the wheelchair with my compromised eyesight not allowing me to be left to my
own devices, since I bump into things, and he walking Skipper on the leash,
since Skipper is not good on a leash to begin with, he’s our free spirit! (So
much for puppy classes…He is used to a fenced-in backyard anyway and never runs
out of the front door and when he has he never has left the property, any
further than my ramp.) Any-who, so after Hubby called me at 11:40 A.M. to tell
me they still had not gotten in to see the new doctor who took over the
practice and that their appointment was for 11:00 A.M. it sounded not so good
to me.
But unbeknownst to me it
would get even worse from there when Hubby came home from his 11:00 A.M.
appointment at the vets office at 12:15 P.M.
We always enter our bills in
to our account online, especially when on our debit, it goes right to our
checking account with our bank, which we do now that we decided to stop using
the Signature for everything and now only used it for the two and three percent rewards
that we get on groceries and gas. Hubby says he doesn’t know why the bill was
so high, I said what? He showed me the bill for $359.63! I looked at it and
besides the medication, which actually was higher than the others, not lower!
They charged him for a geriatric wellness profile, $125!
The tech, the same one who
answered the phone, his old puppy teacher said that he needed it and Hubby did
not ask how much or really anything, at age nine for a small breed, geriatric?
A large breed yes, but not a small breed that weighs 15.8 lbs, which is
just right for his breed and they had just determined from the comprehensive
wellness examine that he was fine, ears, eyes, teeth everything, stool,
heart-worm was negative!
So it was all her doing!
I called there and asked her
why she didn’t tell my husband the cost, and her answer was because he didn’t
ask!
I said some dreadful things
about that and then I told her that we did not ask for it and she said that she can
remove the vile of blood from the fridge and refund our money! I said fine, do
that! She said they could cut us a check, and the reason became clear when I
called back later, they so nicely do not keep our card numbers according to law
for safety, okay that makes sense, but I should have given them to her over the
phone, although I did not trust them any longer. And so what was
instantaneously removed from our checking account and could not be put back the
same way!
Meanwhile, I contacted the
local Animal Welfare League and Humane Society for names of good vets that were
reasonably priced.
One name kept coming up and so I
called them… and they will be our new vet for next year. In the interim though
Hubby felt I should call a few others and since I had the bill in my hands with
the breakdown I compared apples to apples and they were all less for every procedure.
And when asked about charging someone without explaining what the test was for
and each item it entailed and the total cost, they all said before I asked what
goes into a geriatric test and how much they charged, there was an ala cart charge with
the client giving informed consent once all explained! The medications varied
in price but even that is five bucks cheaper for the combo at our now
new vet!
Moving on…
I guess I was still riled and
so I did something I shouldn’t have…
I went to the site that is a
secret and poo pooed a procedure that I truthfully feel cannot cure MS, but
many do believe it can.
This particular woman who
believes in it so emphatically, this procedure, and said that her driver was bed
ridden, but now drives her around! But why can’t she drive herself, I do wonder.
I checked this woman's timeline and she is an
advocate for the procedure, indicating her job and her educational background is from the life.
Good enough for me! LOL!
But she wasn’t even as old as
me and I attended college that is not to say that I learned anything... This
blog is tangible proof that it might not have been the case
And so I riled her enough to encourage
her to call me names, saying I was like a sock puppet, never heard that one
before, but it sounds vile!
Also that I must live in a
vacuum; not a Dyson, can’t afford one of those, plus we have mostly ceramic
tile and we sweep and mop, Hubby does these days, rarely vacuum our one carpeted room or throw rug.
All in all I made her go
poof, by not allowing her to insult me anymore and closing her nasty name calling comments to me.
And I did that to another woman who
I used to be friends with, but apparently, now I know why she has been married
seven times; it was after she posted one of those too sexual comments, but from
her over seventy year old addle apparently brain!
Not all those men could have
been at fault, hmm?
Oddly enough, she is not
rich, according to her,who would have thunk it?
But that one was before the vet
incident.
Anyway, I have done my deeds
for today, bad or good.
Looks as if it's going to be a bumpy year!
On that not too nice note,
allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and
ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages
with you know who and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear!