For The Love Of Sydney

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     People may ask after reading Sid's story, "Why didn't we take her to the emergency room?"   There is two answers for this question.  The vet informed us on, Thursday that if she needed surgery for this, ( so called blockage)  it would be costly, around one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars.  We were more then willing to pay this to save her life.  The emergency room is around five hundred dollars,  for the office visit and blood work.  Two hundred was spent on Thursday, to add another five would have taken half the money we needed for her surgery.

     The second reason is six years ago we had a another bad experience.  This time it was with the emergency room.  Our world was turned up side down after taking our beautiful, Sweet Pea to the emergency room.  He was a one year old brindle pit bull.  We loved him dearly, just as we did, Sydney.  He passed away four hours after bringing him home from the emergency room.  So, clearly dealing with the emergency room was out of the question.  At this time we were still under the understanding that we were dealing with a blockage, not Pyometra.  In the end the amount spent trying to save, Sydney came to the amount of $537.00.  Pretty crazy, am I right?  

     One week ago, today we lost our girl to Pyometra and yes I'm coming to terms with the horror she suffered.  Today, I bought a thank you card.  It will be mailed out tomorrow to the second vet who did his best to help.  He was so kind and understanding with our distress that day,  that he didn't bill us for the Euthanasia of, Sydney.  In my eyes, that is a doctor who truly cares.