READ THIS: This review will give you EVERYTHING needed to prepare yourself to avoid this place as much as possible. I truly can't tell you how long it's taken to write this without getting as disturbed and angry at what I witnessed first hand and via family members involved.
A family dog ,13yr, that is extremely active and plays as hard as any other dog. Recently discovered to have diabetes, and was put under Vet script and ordered routines with great results.
One day, said dog had a seizure over the weekend. Not having a way to measure glucose on hand, and knowing she usually ran high blood sugar. They were given a half doze of insulin. Which we matched with the time pasted since the previous dosage. They come to, but started to show signs of a 2nd seizure. That is when we rushed our dog to this emergency clinic.
They received our dog and she crashed for a 2nd time in the back. I explained as much as I knew and explained that I pushed a measured doze of insulin in response. They tested her (Our dog was critically LOW blood sugar) and got her I.Vs quickly and everything SO FAR was a normal response as one would expect from a emergency clinic.
THIS is where things get OUT OF HAND:
First off, Myself and Family member involved are EMTs with higher ed.
We understand exactly what was going on after the results came in. To save the detective work. We figured that Our dog was given a normal doze in the evening the day prior, but chose not to eat very much. Then was given another normal doze in the morning. Then again, must not have eat as much as we thought.
Now, knowing that our dog was dealing with a high saturation of insulin. We knew that we had to stabilize her to a point to get some food in her.
We are then approached by a tech with 12hr stay ($2350-ish) and 24hr ($4890-ish) stay. We have the money to do so, but knowing what is going on and needing time to dilute the insulin. We felt that it was best to do an hour by hour situation, because we knew that we just had to ride out the insulin high with fluids till we could get food in her.
So we deny the recommended 12hr and 24hr stays in favor of hour by hour. SHORTLY after turning that down, the Female Vet on shift comes into the room and immediately brings up that we turned down their recommendation. I explain that we would like to do an hour by hour till we could beat the crash. She asked if we had any events or expenses coming up? After explaining said events like a My wedding coming up in 2 weeks and have other animals that need to be seen soon. She leaves.
Time goes on and now the other family member has arrived. They ask to see the dog, and our dog is brought into a small room. IMMEDIATLY our dog looks at us and is excited while visibly in better condition. Family member wants to try to give food now that our dog looks well enough to try to eat small amounts of wet food, since it has been some time since the last seizure and since our dog has eaten.
The female vet tells us... "When you take a diabetic to the hospital after a crash. You don't try to give food till their blood sugar is stabilized." YES YOU DO AS SOON AS THEY ARE SAFE TO EAT. WHICH IS USUALLY LONG AFTER THE LAST SEIZURE (recommended 30 mins after)!!!! We had already been there 3-4 hours... no attempt to feed her. We knew that they keep getting LOW readings due to only pushing fluids. The female vet doesn't agree and wanted to hold off.
We are approached again after 4-5 hours of being there.... The female vet tells Us that she doesn't want to do hour by hour anymore. She believes that it will not make a difference with such little time and not buying for 12 hrs. We ask why COULDN'T we pay hour by hour? Then the Female vet says, "we can... but its... going to cost XYZ..." You can see the Female Vet is ANNOYED!!!
THIS IS WHERE I COULDN'T BELIEVE MY EARS.... The Female Vet says, " Well I know you have a wedding coming up soon, and you have animals that need to a vet follow ups on their own, but if you aren't willing to change those or finance them...It's best that you just put her down now and save her the pain of dying at home.."
WE REJECTED HER OUT RIGHT!!! We demanded to feed her!!! After this, she never comes by, and sends a tech Andrew ( VERY HELPFUL). He actually tries to feed her and LOW AND BEHOLD our dog eats like a madman small amounts.
We get a MUCH IMPROVED readings 15 MINS LATER after giving food. Took our dog an hour later back to the house. Since she kept improving.
I TRULY believe, if We weren't so strong-willed and knowledgeable of the event at hand. Our dog would be dead...but she is ALIVE AND DOING GREAT... I can see how people could be held emotionally hostage when someone treats you like this.
Straight up, be prepare to have be emotionally blackmailed to the extreme. The female Vet, UNREQUESTED sent in her tech with a quote for another Clinic, because I had told the Vet I'm not putting my dog down over a $5 glucose bag. read more