Visit to vet #2
Friday morning was the appointment with Dr. Dunn, the vet I like who has just moved from Dr. Walton's practice to "Pets Are People Too", owned by megacorp Veterinary Corporation of America. ( The office, and starting the exam... )
( Hypertension, or how *do* you take a cat's blood pressure? )
Agatha has lived with the kidney disease at a stable level for a long time, but it looks like we're now starting to slide downhill. The goal is to make the slide as slow as possible while keeping her comfortable.
I've rambled long enough, I guess, but the bottom line is vet #1 was right about the retinas, wrong about the lenses, and was seriously wrong when he failed to look at anything beyond that. Was he making his own call that no more efforts should be put into a 17 year old cat, or did he just fail to look at the chart and see the kidney disease, or is he completely unaware of the connection of detached retinas and hypertension? I don't know, but I'm sure I will not take another pet to see him.
( Hypertension, or how *do* you take a cat's blood pressure? )
Agatha has lived with the kidney disease at a stable level for a long time, but it looks like we're now starting to slide downhill. The goal is to make the slide as slow as possible while keeping her comfortable.
I've rambled long enough, I guess, but the bottom line is vet #1 was right about the retinas, wrong about the lenses, and was seriously wrong when he failed to look at anything beyond that. Was he making his own call that no more efforts should be put into a 17 year old cat, or did he just fail to look at the chart and see the kidney disease, or is he completely unaware of the connection of detached retinas and hypertension? I don't know, but I'm sure I will not take another pet to see him.