109 for surgery and a night's stay, that is an awesome price. I love my vet, simply because he loves my dog. That's all you can ask for.
On 1/19/07, Mike Tangorre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > how's the little guy doin? > > He is finally feeling better and pretty much back to his old self. He was > on > more medications than my grandparents! The shitty thing was that one of > the > meds gave him tremors which was frightening to witness... fortunately they > only lasted a couple seconds, about 30 minutes after he took his meds. > > I will say this much, the staff at Main Street Animal Hospital in > Reisterstown, MD is awesome. The vets are all about the animals they are > entrusted with, especially Dr. Molesworth who absolutely loves English > Bulldogs. The vet we use locally is all about the $$$$... The local vet > wanted $600 to neuter Herb and claimed the anesthesia was the reason > behind > the high cost... they also charge for EVERY little thing. They are also > not > our vet anymore. > > Main Street Animal Hospital charged us $109 for the surgery and $14 for > the > medications. That $109 included a 1 night stay with round-the-clock > monitoring. When Herb got an abscess the day after he came home, which > caused a fever of 104.5, they really proved themselves as awesome vets > when > they told us to bring him in immediately. Herb wound up being in the > hospital for a full week! He had an IV for a couple days. Then, as his > fever > broke and his infection was brought under control, they kept him for a > couple more days to ensure he was OK. > > They didn't charge for the week in the hospital nor the medicine while in > the hospital. The only thing we had to pay for when we picked him up was > his > take-home meds... $56 worth (5 prescriptions). The entire cost was under > $200... not that it mattered... we would have gotten second jobs to make > sure he was OK. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:225139 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
