$970 Vet Bill Today for Emergency Surgery on one of my Dawgs [View All]

[dawgmom]

I sure am glad that I know Obama's not going to raise my taxes.

So last night at around 2:00 a.m. when I was finally getting ready to go to bed, Buddy starts having these horrible jaw spasms, clicking and clicking his jaw together at a horribly fast pace, drooling everywhere, and rubbing his nose and mouth against the floor. It was awful. I was up all night with him, took him to the vet this morning and he just came out of surgery. He had two broken back teeth that needed to be pulled, and he had unhinged his jaw somehow so that the vet had to re-set it. *shudder* I have no idea how this happened, and I am absolutely filled with guilt that I didn't notice the teeth -- vet said they were really rotten, and it probably happened a while ago. *guilt, guilt, guilt* He didn't give any signs of being in pain, and he's always hated having his teeth brushed, so it wasn't unusual that he tried to get away when I did that a couple weeks ago. Yeah, he had bad breath -- but he's an old dog, and old dogs are kind of smelly in general.

I'm picking him up in a couple of hours. He will have good drugs, but I need to hold cold compresses to his jaw for 10 minutes, two to three times a day.

The money is painful, but the idea that he was probably suffering.....aww, jeez. I can't think about it.