Confused and Overwhelmed-Diagnosed Anal Sac Carcinoma (Woody has passed)

Gads Trish that is expensive, I thought our prices here were high, but compared to some on the forum the Uk are pretty reasonable. I was lucky Woody only took the heart tablet and that was £60 per month, although Craig never charged me for consultations which should have been £25 every time, but I don,t think he charged me any off them ;)

I got Woody,s final invoice in the other day, so I decided to tally up all of them from the hospital whoa it was a lot but luckily the insurance paid most of it.

Mike is the same, he does not charge me for some checkups either, and never for the many phone calls he makes just to check up on us. Some of these vets are worth their weight in gold... literally!

I am too scared to tally everything up for Flynn, I think it would equal the deposit for a small house! Yep I am paying more for Flynn's monthly meds, than power, internet, phone and cable TV combined!

Sh1t, thank god I had insurance. Bruno my old dog was the same it cost me £10k over his last 2 years with me, with surgery and his many meds and he wasn,t insured. I learned my lesson with him and so Woody was insured as will any other furry friend I have, its a godsend specially for surgery and specialist.

When is your dad expected out of hospital. I had mum at the eye clinic on Friday, goodness her surgeon is easy on the eye lol They have discovered that one of the dissolving stitches on the underside of the lid hasn,t properly dissolved and this is causing her the pain and problems as its rubbing on the eye, she has a bandage lens in to help but may need another little op to get it out. Always something

Wish I had insurance, it did not even enter my mind until it was too late. I have learned my lesson too and any future pets will have it.

Oh ouch, a rubbing stitch on your eye would hurt like heck! Scratch the cornea too I would imagine. Hope she is OK Tracy and does not need more surgery.

Once this last load of washing is through I am heading over to the hospital with Mum, Flynn will stay behind today. I really wish the anaemia could be addressed, it is not low enough for transfusion but it is making him a little dizzy at times.. but he does have menieres too so hard to say what is causing it. Plus he is a teeny bit breathless, maybe I will get the registrar to come talk to me today if he is on call. I cannot see the Drs in the morning as I am working a 2 hr drive north of here tomorrow. So we will see how he is today. Generally doing pretty good, I set him up in the dayroom before I left yesterday so he could watch the horseracing on tv which is a favourite pastime of his!

Speaking to the register would be a good idea Trish, not to keen on the breathlessness. Hospitals are so boring when your a patient, our hospitals have done away with most of the day rooms now and have installed TV units over the beds which can be watched with headphones but you have to pay for them. When mum was in it cost me £10 per night for her to watch 3 hrs of TV its a rip off.

Anyway best wishes to your dad and hope he is home soon, I,m heading to bed see if I can sleep. Good to catch up

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Have a good sleep Tracy, glad your getting there a bit earlier. Sweet dreams! x

Hey you

Hope your ok? How's things going?

Did you hear back yet re the job?

Mel
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Hey Mel

Things not to bad, not heard back from job yet :(

How have you been, how was work ?

Typical, hopefully you will hear in the next couple of days...

Not great. That's why I have been absent, things keep cropping up!

How you been doing? Have you been cooking for yourself?

I thought that,s why you had been absent, you just have to keep plodding on.

I,ve been not bad, suffering a lot of headaches, so went to doctor today and its as I thought tension headaches, she has given me a relaxing cd to listen to at bedtime to help me relax. She reckon my not getting much sleep is my body has forgotten how to sleep, so I have to teach myself how to sleep again lol :) Suppose it makes sense as I,ve not slept properly since April last year.

Not been really cooking much, haven,t really felt up to it, but have been eating :)