Twinkie update (the rest of the text is in the comments or slides) TW: descriptive animal pain in se

Twinkie update (the rest of the text is in the comments or slides)
TW: descriptive animal pain in second paragraph/slide onward (she’s gonna be fine though)

I got her to the ER doc and they took her in at 9pm on Thursday night, letting me know it would take 20 minutes to assess and give me an estimate to approve. She was the first patient to be seen. 45 minutes later and still no paperwork, and now seeing that the car next to me was just handed their credit card back, and I’m pissed. I go inside and find out they had started intaking all the other pets after mine and had held off on giving me the estimate to push the others forward, and they specifically stated that Twinkie was their most critical patient. I’m livid and tell them I want my estimate now and that she needs to be given pain meds now.

10 minutes later (it’s sometime after 10pm at this point) they come back with an estimate and assessment information. Twinkies tail has been degloved a couple of inches and they can do the surgery to manage save her tail, but won’t be able to at least until after 1:30 am after the doctor has finished taking care of all the new NON CRITICAL patients. Furthermore, they want to keep her for 24 hrs poston, but the ER doc is leaving at 6am and there will be no Dr on site until 8pm the following evening. They said that if she crashes during post op, they won’t be able to do anything. I’m angry at this point and tell them I do not feel safe or comfortable with her having to wait like that and would rather they give her pain meds, antibiotics, and either clean or bandage her and I will take her home and get her to her gp vet in the morning. I ok the bill, immediately pay so they can start treatment, however these assholes took another 2.5 hours to give her the pain injection and antibiotics injection. I’m blowing up their phone, going in and out of the office, because she’s in pain and they are doing nothing that they were paid over 2 hours ago to do, after making it a point to tell me they had zero critical cases apart from hers. I can be nice, and extremely patient, until I’m not.

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