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To: lorrie coey who wrote (60153)	9/15/1999 2:00:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>>-this vet initially missed the injury. If she had the information about a suspected fall and failed to follow that lead, she loses points [with Chastain and me]...you [not the vet]were the one who persued a diagnosis...you're his Ma, YOU know best. You have X-rays, a diagnosis and you can always get a second opinion from an objective Third Party Orthvet...[I had to say it].<< lorrie, I was pretty irritated about that too. I told my husband, if a vet has an animal presenting with ortho injury and they can't diagnose it, they ought to just go ahead and refer you to the orthovet JUST IN CASE. Otoh, the ortho said it was a pretty subtle injury and it isn't very obvious UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR. The vet told me this a.m, that she planned to go down and look at it with the ortho just so she would see how and what she missed. So I give her points for due diligence in recognizing her weakness and learning from the experience. When I called her the second time she pretty much reacted like you and said, "Well you know your cat, you obviously know something isn't right. Let's not mess around anymore with this and get an orthovet's opinion." In fairness to her, when I first brought Milo to her, he wouldn't even limp in her office! I felt like a complete idiot, telling her how much he was faltering around and he's just acting totally cool, like nothing is wrong!<g> She manipulated his legs all around and never so much as hissed. So it doesn't seem to surprising that she thought he may have just had some soft tissue damage. One last thing to anyone interested. Consider pet health insurance. Having an inside cat I didn't think it was necessary, but had I bought a policy I would only be out the deductible and premiums instead of $1500. It costs about $10 a month, well worth it. bp