What a frieken night. I get home from work at 10:30 tonight to find my dog covered in pink streaks. What the hell could have caused this, I thought. I walk into my computer room and see a pile of vomit on the floor. I clean up the vomit, and then try and figure out what this pink mess all over Odie's is. Then my roommate comes upstairs and shows me the pink highlighter pen he chewed up and destroyed. That explains the pink mess. While I was wiping him down with a wash cloth I realize that he's holding his left eye shut.
I opened his eye manually and saw that it was fire truck red. I thought maybe he had got some highlighter ink in there, so I tried to flush it out with a little water. No improvement. So off to the emergency vet I went. It's the only vet open 24 hours around here.
They weighed him, took his temperature, and put dye in his eye to check for scratches. Sure enough he had two large scratches which were easily visible with the green dye. So they give me a tube of ointment and an e-collar. Then they give me a bill for $200.
I had this same exact procedure done by my own vet in early 2008 when he had irritated eyes. They only charged me $80 including the medication.
I knew I had to take him in as soon as possible. I don't want my dog to go blind because I procrastinated or couldn't afford it, which I can't. But whatever. I'm relieved that the situation is being resolved, but I'm pissed about the money. I couldn't pay for it, so I had to charge it. I've been really trying hard to pay down my credit cards, but it seems like every time you take a step forward, you end up taking two steps back. ****
Oh, and he probably scratched his eye on the chewed up plastic highlighter pen.
I opened his eye manually and saw that it was fire truck red. I thought maybe he had got some highlighter ink in there, so I tried to flush it out with a little water. No improvement. So off to the emergency vet I went. It's the only vet open 24 hours around here.
They weighed him, took his temperature, and put dye in his eye to check for scratches. Sure enough he had two large scratches which were easily visible with the green dye. So they give me a tube of ointment and an e-collar. Then they give me a bill for $200.
I had this same exact procedure done by my own vet in early 2008 when he had irritated eyes. They only charged me $80 including the medication.
I knew I had to take him in as soon as possible. I don't want my dog to go blind because I procrastinated or couldn't afford it, which I can't. But whatever. I'm relieved that the situation is being resolved, but I'm pissed about the money. I couldn't pay for it, so I had to charge it. I've been really trying hard to pay down my credit cards, but it seems like every time you take a step forward, you end up taking two steps back. ****
Oh, and he probably scratched his eye on the chewed up plastic highlighter pen.
