Cheap Trip to the Vet

As many of you know, Dave & I have spent enough money on our dogs in the last several years to buy both of us our dream cars, plus some. Of course, we would rather have the dogs (most of the time, anyway) - but it really is amazing how much we've shelled out trying to keep these furbabies healthy. We've been to the vet's office so often that we're on a first-name basis with the vets, and I've wondered at times if they suspected us of having Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome for Canines. The office manager even told me recently that she really liked us a lot, but she'd just as soon we drop in some day only to say "hi" - without bringing either a sick dog or a checkbook!

Well, we'd actually gone six whole weeks without having to take either one of them in. I had even considered taking Ina up on her offer to just stop in & chat, but Fattie LaBelle decided she didn't like that plan. Yesterday, her neck started bleeding inexplicably. We knew she & Riley hadn't been fighting, but we didn't know whether she had another one of her mysterious volcanic cysts or had impaled herself on an Agave needle. Either way, we figured she'd need antibiotics - so I drug out the ol' credit card and headed back to the vet once again.

Fortunately, it appears that the dumb-dumb managed to gouge herself with an Agave needle (or some other unknown pointed object in our yard), but at least she doesn't have a cyst that requires excision, stitches, checkup visits, and all the other associated costs. She only needs antibiotics, AND she's lost 12 pounds since we put her on her thyroid meds two months ago. WOO HOO!

All in all, it was one of our more positive visits - and I actually got out of there for under 100 bucks :-)