I was not talking about ventelators OR feeding tubes OR even chemotherapy! Find me one place in my post where I mentioned either of them??Originally Posted by farmgirl
What I said was viable options, which is doing everything reasonable, not everyone can afford chemo for their dog, not every dog is a good canidate for chemo, and not all people want to put the dog through that, however there are other things people CAN do as far as reasonable treatment from pain meds to antibiotics to control secondary infections.
My post was not waiting to seek a vets diagnosis in the first place because you're afraid. I can see where you obviously missed the point of my post (as you obviously waited 10 years for a surgery for yourself). Obviously in your 'hundreds of times' in your career you must have never encountered someone who is now in organ failure because they never were diagnosed early enough for something that was curable when caught early???
You also totally missed my comments on euthanasia, which is TOTALLY different than ventelators or feeding tubes. Euthanasia is an option people have with their pets to spare them the pain you've obviously witnessed in people. That was why your previous vet suggested it for the other dog.
I should have guessed you were in the human medical field, some of our WORST clients are human nurses, they think just because they know something about people diseases and treatments that they know sooo much about animal diseases and treatments, WRONG. Most (not all) of our clients that are human nurses tend to wait the longest, try more quack home remedies, and try to tell the VET how to do his job. You think vets are pushy and arrogant, well, who has the degree in animal medicine, the vet or the human nurse???? And BTW most vets don't take too kindly to being told how to do their job from someone without a degree in veterinary medicine!!
So if I'm uncompassionate because I hate to see animals suffer for human ignorance and stubborness then fine. And if you don't want your dog to go through anything you wouldn't go through, you must really like pain and suffering yourself, you did wait 10 years for a surgery (I'm wondering if your husband was having a mild heart attack if you'd go on a message board seeking advice rather than going to the hospital?). You know, you do at least have to go to the vet to get pain meds for this 'supposed dying naturally' thing right?? Maybe someday YOU'LL have a broken leg and don't get taken to the dr. until a week later. Maybe someday YOU'LL have horrible diarrhea and vomiting and someone just feeds you some more cuz you must be hungry for not keeping your dinner down. Maybe someday YOU'LL have out of control diabetes for 6 months before someone takes you to the dr. and find out that now instead of diabetes you have kidney failure from waiting too long!
Sorry you can't handle the truth.
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