Hi MIke,   
      
   On Wed 2011-Oct-05 19:23, Mike Roberts (1:261/1381) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
      
      
   RW> They even took her post dated check.   
   RW> YEs they're spendy, but worth it.  We're glad to have our loving    
   RW> Rottweiler back acting normal again.   
      
   MR> Richard it is good to hear a good outcome of what sometimes sounds   
   MR> so very serious. I thank goodness for the emergency vets. Not to   
   MR> long ago, one of my boys started flipping out and acting like he was   
   MR> tripping on something. Scared the ehck out of me when he finally   
   MR> collapsed and defecated on the floor. I ended up having to take him   
   MR> to the emergency vet and he was checked and some blood tests etc,   
   MR> and at the time they said take him home and keep Your eye on him.   
      
   Glad that worked for you too.  I'm glad they were there.   
      
   MR> The sad thing was, while I was waiting for all this, the things You   
   MR> see in abundance that You don't see at the regular vet is a bet   
   MR> overwhelming for an animal lover. In the short time I sat there   
   MR> waiting I saw 3 families put their dog to sleep. One bring in his   
   MR> dead dog that died on the way, and a poor little lab pup with a huge   
   MR> fishing lure snagged in his lower lip. Some pretty sad stuff, but I   
   MR> was glad things worked out for simon. I am glad things worked out   
   MR> for your dog too.. It is amazing to see those emergency places at   
   MR> work.   
      
   THere was somebody else with a cat in another room, don't   
   know what its trouble was but I could hear it crying out   
   once in awhile, but the waiting room was deserted except for me and SChotze   
   until Kathy got the van parked and joined us, which took a bit for her to get   
   out, get her walker   
   together, oxygen pack and purse slung and inside.  WAs just   
   as glad, I was in no mental shape to deal with that, but   
   then it was almost MIdnight on a SAturday night.  I was so   
   scared I'd lose her to be honest.  The vet tech and I   
   unloaded her but I got her to stumble in on her own power.   
      
   I'd had to put my last dog before her down about 6 years ago after two   
   strokes, and that was a pretty tough day for me,   
   was afraid we were going to get the same outcome, and I was   
   a little bit angry with first vet who didn't look any   
   further than what he assumed the problem was and offer more   
   steroids.  I mean dammit they can't talk to you and say "it   
   hurts here ... " or anything like that.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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