Miss Lily Belle

Well apparently Miss Lily decided we needed a little more excitement/stress to deal with, or she decided it was time for her to be the main center of attention. We discovered last week that she had a fractured tooth. So we make a couple of phone calls, get her into a certain Vet's office (we have been there before) they told us they could do the extraction when we called, then after we were there said "oh no, we will give you a referral to a specialist". Well we all know that anything that ends in IST and has to do with anything medical is going to be expensive. So we get home, I call the number of the ist they gave us and they quoted an estimate at $1200-$1300, but it could be higher!!! I almost passed out from that news, I said I needed to talk to my husband and I'd call back. So we called another trusty vet's office and they said "Wow, that is just way too much", I said no kidding :) So they asked me all kinds of ?'s and gave me a rough estimate of $500-$600!! What a huge difference! So today we dropped Lily Belle off at 7 a.m. and I spent the day missing my baby girl and worrying (my specialty). We were able to pick her up at 4:30 along with an oral rinse, pain meds, and antibiotics. Plus we were told that while she was under her heart was skipping beats. So next week after all the effects of the anesthesia have worn off she goes in for an electrocardiogram to see if it was caused by the surgery. I pray that's all it was, and that she is fine. She is doing ok tonight and she is very happy to be home. We still aren't sure how she fractured the tooth, but we are guessing that it was Hannah's nylabone (it's too big for Lily to chew) that did it. Needless to say all hard nylabones have been disposed of. Well it's very late, and I am very tired so off to sleep I go. Goodnight!!!