We're back...Kitten is in ICU (Updated)

Got out there around midnight, got to my parents' house around 1:40 am, after stopping at the hospital, my brother had already taken the kitten in, b/c it was declining rapidly. After paying an obscene amount of $$, the kitten is receiving glucose, blood transfusions, FIV and FELV tests, IV hydration, flea treatment, etc etc. Still don't know if he'll make it.

Oh, it's a "he", btw. And he's younger than I thought, 5 weeks, and only weighs under a pound. Waiting for the Vet to call and update me, anytime now.

And I don't know how the fuck I'll pay for more than the deposit that I paid last night, which was over $1000. Yay for emergency hospitals in the middle of nowhere. Ugh.

I'm exhausted. Class at 2, and again at 4. Blech.

Keep kitten in your thoughts. :hi:

UPDATE: Ok, it's a girl! Just talked to the Vet. She pulled through the night, her blood sugar is way up, she's eating small amounts of food, and is getting her transfusion. They will run a hematocrit this afternoon to check on the anemia. She is FIV and FeLV negative. They want to get her to the point where she can maintain her sugar on her own, and then she can go home. Fingers crossed. Both for her and the $$ situation.

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They have 0% interest for up to 1 year.... and it's only for medical stuff, so you won't use the card at Sears or Macy's or anything like that.

Kitteh needs a name.... something that would indicate how lucky he is to have found you.

I don't have that kind of money, hehe. Yay for more debt.

I just want the Vet to call. Any minute now...waiting, waiting.

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CareCredit truly is a godsend, it's the only thing that made sure my Ninja got the care he needed....



He's both a handsome *and* a healthy boy now!

I loathe those bastards with the heat of a thousand suns.

... mind telling us how they fucked up?

ETA: Just got done faxing an Intent to Sue letter to a collection agency that's been calling me after I told the fuckers that I work nights and getting woken up is rather inconvenient.

I work rotating twelves, nights, days, whatever. Right now I am in a schixmat with my financial aid advisor (telephone tag!) for my online school. I am on nights right now (7 to 7am).
What is this insurance that you have that covers pets and people? Never heard if it!

I don't know if you can sue a collections agency unless they are bothering you at work, though.

Good luck, hunny!

The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act has a specific rule that a debt collector cannot call a person at a time or place that is known or should be known to be inconvenient.

The law states "In the absence of knowledge of circumstances to the contrary, it shall be presumed that calls between 8 am and 9 pm are convenient."

In other words, it's supposed to keep debt collectors from calling people at all hours of the night.

Theoretically, people have invoked the inconvenience clause by simply saying phone calls are inconvenient, and they have won cases with that. But since it says specifically about "knowledge of circumstances to the contrary", since I have a very good reason for not wanting calls during the day, I *always* state that I work nights, and therefore calls are inconvenient because I am likely to be asleep during their business hours.

The key word used in the statute is "inconvenient" -- just telling them not to call you won't cut it.

The people that are calling me are not only calling for a debt that I do not owe (ER Doc was paid what they are contracted to receive by Aetna, they are claiming that I owe the difference between what Aetna paid and what they billed, in violation of their contract with Aetna), but are calling despite having been told both verbally (on tape) and in writing that I work nights and therefore phone calls during their business hours are inconvenient. I did say that if they were able to call at around midnight I'd likely be awake but that I doubted they would be open then. (The lady I spoke to laughed at that... I thought that would mean that she would do the right thing and make sure her supervisors knew I worked nights, but apparently not.)

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CareCredit isn't really insurance, it's like a credit card for medical and vet bills. They have low interest plans so that you can pay it off over time -- and depending on the offer, if you pay it off in a certain amount of time it's no-interest.

I'd gotten the account to use for my dental work, but then kitty got sick, and it came in handy.

They have a certain dollar amount required to qualify for no interest repayment...it cost me well over the dollar amount, but because it was billed as two different procedures (the root canal and the crown), they claimed that each individual bill was less than the no interest amount, so they proceeded to charge me 19.9% interest.


CareCredit sucks ass.

If it makes you feel any better, my parent's cat was touch and go for over two months after getting a serious puncture wound in his abdomen. Thankfully, the vet was very accommodating in prices. And now cat is finally back to normal, after expending 8 of his 9 lives. For a while it looked very scary due to infection.

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I thought about her and you two all night. I'm tearing up as I type this.

You and Sniffa are the best!

Again good luck!

It sounds like the last minute trip West was a good call, sweetie.

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Years ago, I had a kittie that had kittens that all died, though I rushed them to the emergency vet. She had another litter later on, and they all died, too. I think that the second kittie she mated with had feline AIDS. Back then, I could not afford to get her fixed.

Many more moons before that, I had a kittie that got attacked by coyotes (in a canyon in CA by my house). She had to have a leg amputated. They didn't expect her to survive, but the vet kept her under observation and all that, and she lived. I could never get the hang of giving her the antibiotics. Yeah, try shoving pills down an ornery cat's throat!!

THen our landlord came over and freaked (puked, even) when he saw the three-legged kitty--then evicted us.

BUT--there is NO LIFE without cats!!!

XXXOOOO

Good luck to you and your kittie!!

caused her blood sugar to crash. Looks like we got her there just in time. Hoping she can come home asap.

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That was exactly what happened to Motor Kitty when she had kittens--fleas. I watched her try to kill the kittens (the second batch) by dropping them off of high places. At the time, I was unemployed and broke, so I tried dipping the kittens in dish soap to get rid of the fleas, but they all died anyways. They were so pretty, too--all white and semi-long haired. The father of those kittens turned out to have Kittie AIDS. It was very sad.

Since you got your kittie to the vet in a timely fashion, I think she will be ok.

It's amazing how badly fleas will affect a kitty. Strange, but true.

Hang in there, hunny

off topic but I made it to NH safely, btw. ended up hanging out a Foxwoods forever before we left tho.

Don't mean to hijack bibaby's kitty thread but thought i would say hi since you are here on DU. :hi:

but you have to know when and where they are. As you know, there is not much chance of us getting Stella fixed--it's going to be like the only time she gets to the vet is when she is on her deathbed.---for those who have no idea what I am talking about--(everyone haha)--we have a very skittish kittie that we have had for almost six years. She will not allow anyone to touch her and when it was time to get her spayed, could not get her into the kittie carrier. Big scratches, oh well. She will probably remain the un-fixed lunatic kittie.

Glad you made it to New Hamster safely (did you wind up driving?)

XXXOOO

The money thing x(

What will you name her?

above and beyond the call of duty ! I hope to be meeting him/her soon! :hug: :hi:

I was so hoping it was a boy, but no, apparently.

I just left a letter for the landlord asking if we can have her, as our lease states that if you get a pet w/o permission, they tack on an extra $150 to your rent each month. Per animal. :crazy:

Fingers crossed, on all counts. :hi:

Got busted in one apartment when some kid saw one of my four illegal kitties looking out the window. He asked if he could have a cat,too. So I got the ultimatum. They thought I had one cat, but I had 4. Ooops.

My policy is...Don't ask, Don't tell!!!

Meow!What? There's no cat here, you are just imagining things!!!