Prayers for my Pidgelet, please! *Update 11/23*; she's losing weight; post #285

[Emeraldgreen]

I'm so sorry. It shouldn't be this hard. I'm praying that she will be comfortable through the night and that you will be able to get the meds with the correct prescriptions tomorrow morning. The news is devastating and made so much worse when things are going wrong with meds and communication. I think it might be as you once said, that he is such a good vet that he has taken on so many clients but perhaps has taken on too much. I don't blame you for being angry but I pray that this will all somehow work out, that she will make it through tonight and get onto the meds tomorrow and... with LOTS AND LOTS OF PT PRAYERS, that she will go on to live with you for many, many more months and longer. I know Dr. Lee said that she could die at any moment and it is overwhelming. But she also could live on and it could work out. Please hang in there, keep the faith and know that we are with you.

[pomtzu]

Mary - like so many others, I just don't know that there is anything I can say to make you feel any better. You know that you and Pidge are in my prayers.
This whole situation is so distressing for you, but then to have Dr. Lee add to it is just totally inexcusable.
And lately it seems like so many of the PT pets - dogs, cats, young, old - have gone to the Bridge or are very sick. What's going on??? - I wish I knew. Every day anymore, it's just one sad story after another. Some days I don't even really want to read anything on PT!
Please remember the verse I sent to you before: "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." No matter what happens with Pidge, I hope you can find peace and comfort in this.
A gentle pat to Pidge and hugs to you Mary.

[Medusa]

Well, Dr. Lee just called. He did not apologize but he did acknowledge that it was his responsibility to sign those Rx's. He said "I misunderstood. I thought you had enough meds from your local vet and I was simply writing down how you were to administer them". I said "I told your vet tech that I had none left and that it was imperative that Pidge get a Lasix at 10:30 AM" and he replied "She made it sound as though you didn't bring any w/you". I said "No, I told her that my vet gave me enough to get me through the weekend and that was it".

He called me on my landline, which annoyed me, because I specifically stated to call me on my cell and I gave him the number. Then he said "I'll call your pharmacy at ______" and I said "NO! That's MY number!" See, this is what I mean. Not enough attention to detail is being paid. We're all human and we all make mistakes but this is a biggie. Pidge needs that Lasix to keep the fluid out of her lungs. If you're not breathing, you're dying! My mother missed one dose of her Lasix and she died that night. And still, I feel that I need to keep coming to Dr. Lee's defense because he gave me years w/Puddy and Yodie that I never would have had. But he's got to have a staff meeting and stress the importance of paying attention to detail, no matter how busy the day, no matter how stressful the situation. It shouldn't be up to the client to be the watchdog. I had just gotten devastating news and if you had asked me my name at that moment, it's doubtful that I could've answered you.

[GILL]

Dear Mary I and the CREW are so so sorry.

[Anikaca77]

More prays that you can get Pidge the meds by 10:30

[Medusa]

More prays that you can get Pidge the meds by 10:30

I meant by 10:30 AM yesterday when she went in for the ultrasound, etc. I had no more Lasix and she needed to keep the fluid out of her lungs and from around her heart in order to breathe and for them to be able to get an accurate reading. I even called and double checked that they had given her the Lasix and they assured me that they had but it's what transpired afterwards that had/has me so upset.

[Medusa]

In my haste to report how the situation w/Dr. Lee was rectified, I forgot to mention how Pidgelet is doing, the most important of all. Obviously, she made it through the night. At one point, I had finally drifted off to sleep, only to be awakened by her wailing. She went downstairs into the living room, stood in the middle of the floor and just wailed. I picked her up and took her back upstairs w/me where she spent the rest of the night and wailed intermittently. She ate w/the rest of the Fur Posse this morning, went back upstairs and laid on my bed and began wailing again. I think it may be anxiety or whenever she exerts herself perhaps her chest hurts and that's why she wails. This is the saddest time I've had in years.

I'm trying to stay positive for her but after she gets all these meds in her, she's to go back to Dr. Lee on Wednesday evening to be retested to see how they're working. If there is no improvement and she continues the wailing, I may have to help her to the Bridge. She's had too long and healthy a life for her to suffer now just because I want her to be w/me for a little while longer. W/Puddy it was different; she lived 4 1/2 years less time than Pidge and she had one challenge after another, so I felt I owed her. W/Pidge, I feel as though I owe her, too, but in a different way. I owe her peace.

[jenluckenbach]

Here's praying that the meds work. My Shilo is on the Lasix, Enalapril and aspirin too because of heart problems (and he's a baby! 5 years old, or so). And I pray HE stays well, too. Supposedly the meds will help him, and they should help Pidge too.

[pomtzu]

I'm trying to stay positive for her but after she gets all these meds in her, she's to go back to Dr. Lee on Wednesday evening to be retested to see how they're working. If there is no improvement and she continues the wailing, I may have to help her to the Bridge. She's had too long and healthy a life for her to suffer now just because I want her to be w/me for a little while longer. W/Puddy it was different; she lived 4 1/2 years less time than Pidge and she had one challenge after another, so I felt I owed her. W/Pidge, I feel as though I owe her, too, but in a different way. I owe her peace.

Hopefully there will be some improvement, but if there isn't and you do decide to let her go, just keep telling yourself what you have told all of us......that she was fortunate to live a very long and healthy life. You don't need to go thru the pain and torment that you did trying to save dear little Puddy, and you'll be able to remember Pidge best thru all those good years, not her last weeks of decline. Of course, we're still praying that you can have at least a little more time together before you have to say so long for a while - it's never really good-bye.