I have an extremely difficult decision to make

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Sebastian’s mom (Lauren)

Sebastian’s mom (Lauren)

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I’m AUDHD so any big decision making is hard for me, but this is especially hard since it feels like life or death for Sebastian.

Sebastian needs dental extractions really really badly. I can afford to take him to a low cost vet for this, but that vet confirmed they have nobody monitoring him after surgery (or during) which sounds impossible to me. He said he still feels comfortable going forward even knowing Sebastian’s background. Which also rubbed me the wrong way because regardless of outcome, this guy gets paid.

I have called soo many places and gotten so many different prices, but vets who will monitor him are at least $1500 out of my price range. I’ve had family and family friends apply for care credit for this difference, they were all denied.
I started a gofundme that has done very little.
I just lost my job due to my mental health being very very poor. I’m actually thinking about going inpatient if I can get my mom to learn how to give Sebastian insulin and test him.
This is all happening at the worst time possible.

So my choices are, go forward with the dental the 16th and hope for the best, or put it off and risk things declining further.

A bit of background on Sebastian, he’s had 2 surgeries about 3, 4ish years ago (prior to diabetes diagnosis) that went well. Dental extractions and an emergency PU surgery. He is suspected of having asthma and feline herpes virus. He also has allergies, but to what is unknown at the time (I suspect chicken, beef, dust right now.) He’s recently started to sleep so deep it’s hard to wake him. He twitches during these episodes. The vet suspects neurological/ seizure- like behavior. He started getting gabapentin for tooth pain, methyl b12 and cosequin and these episodes went from 100% of the time he sleeps, to make 15-20% of the time.

I know there are people in this group who regret not getting dentals done in time and I don’t want to have regrets later. I just don’t understand how they could not monitor these animals. Especially cause I know 60% of anesthesia deaths happen in recovery and Sebastian has this strange/ scary sleep thing.

If I put it off, the money I have saved thus far will unfortunately have to go into his current care because it’s the only money I have to my name. Which means it could take a year after I finally go back to work PT to save the 3k needed for a better vet.

This surgery is supposed to be 2 days away.
 
This may sound crazy, but perhaps you can ask if you can be present immediately afterwards to monitor him yourself? I assume there will still be a vet in the building you can shout out to for help, so it's only monitoring that's the problem right? The vet may not be willing to go for this but if you think you are up for the task I would certainly ask (firmly).
 
Lisa and Angel said:
This may sound crazy, but perhaps you can ask if you can be present immediately afterwards to monitor him yourself? I assume there will still be a vet in the building you can shout out to for help, so it's only monitoring that's the problem right? The vet may not be willing to go for this but if you think you are up for the task I would certainly ask (firmly).
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i have considered this! I will try to see if this is at all possible.
 
Sebastian’s mom (Lauren) said:
i have considered this! I will try to see if this is at all possible.
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I hope he'll agree! If not, maybe something like a baby monitor or webcam setup could be worked out? Just throwing things out there. Sadly it all depends on how agreeable your vet is... I've personally been allowed to view one of my cats' dentals back when I was a teen, purely because I was very curious and interested in going into vet med and my vet didn't mind at all. But I'm sure some vets would clutch their pearls at the mere idea.
 
Lisa and Angel said:
I hope he'll agree! If not, maybe something like a baby monitor or webcam setup could be worked out? Just throwing things out there. Sadly it all depends on how agreeable your vet is... I've personally been allowed to view one of my cats' dentals back when I was a teen, purely because I was very curious and interested in going into vet med and my vet didn't mind at all. But I'm sure some vets would clutch their pearls at the mere idea.
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I will also try that. I do have one I use to watch him now while I’m not home so that would be perfect if they’d allow it. I don’t see how it’d do any harm. I have also been interested in vet med my whole life, but I think that career would emotionally destroy me because of the amount of empathy I feel towards animals.
 
Sebastian’s mom (Lauren) said:
I’ve had family and family friends apply for care credit for this difference, they were all denied.
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There's a new option that just started a short time ago. I found out about them when I was at the reception desk at the vet to pay for my cat's euthanasia. I'd never heard of them and asked her if Care Credit had changed their name. She said no, this was a new company and they had several clients that were denied Care Credit but were approved for this one so it's worth a shot!

It's called AllPet and it only deals with vet bills unlike CC which is for all kinds of things. As with everything, be sure to read the small print.
 
Chris & China (GA) said:
There's a new option that just started a short time ago. I found out about them when I was at the reception desk at the vet to pay for my cat's euthanasia. I'd never heard of them and asked her if Care Credit had changed their name. She said no, this was a new company and they had several clients that were denied Care Credit but were approved for this one so it's worth a shot!

It's called AllPet and it only deals with vet bills unlike CC which is for all kinds of things. As with everything, be sure to read the small print.
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Thank you!!! :) I will definitely look into this first
 
Spoke to the receptionist today and she told me what the vet said isn’t true? That they do have a vet tech monitoring vitals in surgery, a vet tech present when the animal wakes up to ensure it’s going okay and then a vet tech periodically checking on them throughout the day. She also said there’s usually always someone back there. I’m really confused as to why the vet told me there wouldn’t be any monitoring..
 
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