Taking your dog to the vet is NOT supposed to cost $300.00. If I knew that that Sid (our shepherd) was going to need X-rays, an EKG and a battery of blood tests, 
I might have stayed in bed today.
To make matters worse, we still don’t even know what’s wrong with her. All the vet could tell us was there MIGHT be a mass in her abdomin. We’re supposed to get the results of the blood tests tomorrow. We’re a bit freaked out - it doesn’t sound good.
The vet didn’t really help our concerns. After the x-rays, she stuck the image of Sid’s abdomin on the light board and explained that she couldn’t see much detail due to a build up of fluid in the area, but she was concerned that there may be a mass there. She proceeded to grab the x-rays of another ‘patient’ and slapped them up on the lightboard by Sid’s. These were her words.
“Here are the x-rays of another dog that we just euthanized, notice the mass in the abdomin.”
WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?!?
We’re obviously worried - we didn’t really want to hear how she just did a Dr. Kevorkian on someone else’s dog with a similar condition.
Niiiiice. I thought Lori was going to start crying on the spot.
Anyway, we’re hoping for the best…but really worried about the worst. She’s acting fine, and I am still hoping they call and tell us to pick up a prescription of magic dog pills that will make her all better.
Oh man! There better not be anything wrong with her, I’ll cry. I think the vet needs — re-education.
If she needed the other X-Ray, she should have said, here’s one pretty much the same, and that turned out to be serious, but we won’t just yet.
I’m glad that she’s just as silly as ever. Poor little girl. Out of curiosity, what was the Vet’s name?
Hoping for the best - She’s a great dog.