Kurai & Daniel
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Alright alright, I know theres that nice sticky up there about converting a vet, but I've got this feeling that even if I bring a stack of papers to him to look at he won't even touch it. Though I'm not so much concerned about converting him to hometesting.
I'd rather find a way to convince him that I'm not an idiot who believes everything she hears on the internet. I'm a bit police minded when it comes to figuring truth from lies. If you have one person who tells you that one thing happened but then you have 5 or 6 other people telling you something else happened and all their stories match up and they don't appear to be corraborating their story who are you prone to believe? The group.
I know that he is the one who went to vet school, I know I didn't. For all he seems to care I know jack squat about the 'animal' that I've owned for 8 years. At least that's how it seems to me. Granted I'm feeling quite a bit angsty this morning, so perhaps my thoughts aren't being quite fair. He's never been outrightly rude, but he also makes me feel like my opinion of the treatment doesn't much matter.
Just a few things that have really thrown me off of this vet him telling me that he always uses the vial of Lantus not the pens. So I guess he doesn't care that the manufacturer states that it needs to be discarded 28 days after first use? I know most people on here use their pens for around about 6 months but you still probably wouldn't go through half a vial by then. They keep trying to push the RX dry food on me even though I've told them no. Was a bit condecending when he told me I should have spoken with him first before I got a human glucometer (I'd never even met him before! The initial diagnosis was done by a vet who was just covering for the weekend) and then said the glucometer I had always read higher than the Alphatrak (Why do I keep finding that human glucometers read lower then?) and using the one I had put my cat at risk for hypo. Yet he wants me to double his dose within the first 3 days and shoot blindly. Telling me I should only test his blood once or twice a week, no more.
I really really really would rather be able to see my vet as a partner rather than someone I feel like I'm struggling against. If nothing else I guess I can just take all the paperwork and if he blows me off and doesn't even look at it I'll just take my Danny and walk out. If that happens I'll be on here looking if anyone in the area has Vet recommendations. *sighs*
I'd rather find a way to convince him that I'm not an idiot who believes everything she hears on the internet. I'm a bit police minded when it comes to figuring truth from lies. If you have one person who tells you that one thing happened but then you have 5 or 6 other people telling you something else happened and all their stories match up and they don't appear to be corraborating their story who are you prone to believe? The group.
I know that he is the one who went to vet school, I know I didn't. For all he seems to care I know jack squat about the 'animal' that I've owned for 8 years. At least that's how it seems to me. Granted I'm feeling quite a bit angsty this morning, so perhaps my thoughts aren't being quite fair. He's never been outrightly rude, but he also makes me feel like my opinion of the treatment doesn't much matter.
Just a few things that have really thrown me off of this vet him telling me that he always uses the vial of Lantus not the pens. So I guess he doesn't care that the manufacturer states that it needs to be discarded 28 days after first use? I know most people on here use their pens for around about 6 months but you still probably wouldn't go through half a vial by then. They keep trying to push the RX dry food on me even though I've told them no. Was a bit condecending when he told me I should have spoken with him first before I got a human glucometer (I'd never even met him before! The initial diagnosis was done by a vet who was just covering for the weekend) and then said the glucometer I had always read higher than the Alphatrak (Why do I keep finding that human glucometers read lower then?) and using the one I had put my cat at risk for hypo. Yet he wants me to double his dose within the first 3 days and shoot blindly. Telling me I should only test his blood once or twice a week, no more.
I really really really would rather be able to see my vet as a partner rather than someone I feel like I'm struggling against. If nothing else I guess I can just take all the paperwork and if he blows me off and doesn't even look at it I'll just take my Danny and walk out. If that happens I'll be on here looking if anyone in the area has Vet recommendations. *sighs*