Generally toenails don’t cost any money. This changes when its the toenail of a dog.
Yesterday when I got home all was well. I had to call a teacher to do a screen share at 5:45pm. I let the dogs out and started cooking some popcorn chicken. When I let the dogs back in I noticed some blood on the floor. I tracked down which dog was bleeding and finally found out where the blood was coming from.
Apparently Akasha somehow broke the end of her toenail off all the way back to the quick. Ouch! I was so screwed! Jeremy was heading over to drop off Sadie, I had a screen share at 5:45, the vet closed at 7:00pm and the screen share wouldn’t be over until 8:00pm.
I called Dusty to see what she thought about the whole situation. She called her vet to get some quick advice and see how late they were open. They told her it was a pretty simple thing but there would be some antibiotics and some pain medication. Total…maybe $100.
No Freakin Way!
After some heated debate with the voices in my head, I decided to run on over to Dixie Animal Hospital. I didn’t want to cut the toenail off myself out of fear of her bleeding. I also didn’t want to have to fumble around causing her pain the whole time. A Dr. could do it ten times faster than I could.
I was lucky they didn’t have a lot of people in line. I wanted to get in and out quickly so I could get back to the screen sharing. The Dr. took Akasha back and chopped that booger off. Then she came out and told me Akasha needed some antibiotics and pain meds. Surprise. I declined. Come on people, does anyone remember the days when we waited to see if there was a problem before fixing it? Besides, the meds were going to be like $75. They told me Akasha would probably get a staff infection which would go into the bone and she would die.
WTF? I paid 8K for Icarus’ leg. If she gets some type of infection, I’ll just have to pay to get her better.
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