Nova & Kevin's Medical Expenses
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Tyler and I have two perfect babies, Nova and Kevin.
Anyone who knows Tyler knows Nova. Nova is a beautiful, kind, and affectionate Siberian Husky. She's saved me and Tyler more times than we can count.
Kevin is a cat that we took in as a rehome from northern Virginia! There was no logical reason that Kevin stood out to me when I saw a simple post of him on Facebook - but I knew instantly that he was meant to be in our family.
Anyone who knows us knows Nova and Kevin! Unfortunately, the vet has also become very familiar with Nova and Kevin.
Nova was showing strange symptoms of pain and discomfort, and her hair was shedding drastically more & much longer than it usually does. We took her in, and all of her labs came back normal, but they found a strange growth beneath her spine. They placed her on a LOT of pain medications - some of which caused her to experience adverse reactions like vomiting and diarrhea. There was even a day when we took her in because her diarrhea and fatigue got so bad, she looked worse off on the pain meds than she was before we brought her in. After an urgent care visit, the vet identified she was reacting poorly to the NSAID they prescribed her, and we decided to wean her off the pain medications after they replaced the NSAID. Because we can't afford an MRI to investigate the growth beneath her spine further, the vet also placed her on a 30 day course of antibiotics, and she seems to have gotten a bit better. We (and the vet) hoped that the growth was bacterial, and would disappear once her antibiotics course was complete. However, when they rechecked her with another xray, they saw that the growth did not decrease in size. They've placed her on another 30 days of antibiotics, and we're hoping that she continues to be okay.
When we adopted Kevin, we discovered he had tooth decay. The vet noted that we may need to have his teeth extracted if they did not improve by the time of his next appointment. The week before his follow up, Tyler noticed Kevin had some pink discharge coming out of his penis while he was grooming. We told the vet, and they discovered he has a layer of sediment and crystallization in his bladder. They advised we place him in a urinary treatment diet, and he seemed to be doing okay. Until one morning, we woke up to him attempting to pee all over the bedroom, following us around the room in complete distress, mounting to pee with nothing coming out, his tail twitching like crazy. We took him in for an emergency visit, and they had to have him flushed out and treated. The vet told us we were lucky we caught it when we did - he could have died that day from a urinary blockage. And the poor thing barely had time to recover before we needed to get five of his teeth extracted two weeks later...
Nova's medical issues and Kevin's medical issues happened at the SAME exact time. We're grateful that we had come to a financially secure place exactly three weeks before all of this happened, but our funds have been completely depleted. Several of our bills went unpaid for weeks, and I had to sell my car just so we could stay above water, catch up on bills, and buy groceries that was more than just instant ramen.
We've spent about $5500 out of pocket on their medical treatment in the past month and a half. Unfortunately, we did not have insurance for Nova or Kevin in ample time before everything happened, and our claims have been rejected due to the short timeframe between us signing them up and them having their treatments.
We aren't expecting to find outside help for the entire $5500 - this is what we signed up for when we decided to be pet parents. But after the dust has finally settled... Nova has started eating less again, and I just discovered bloody discharge on the floor of Kevin's litter box enclosure. Tyler and I are concerned about what will happen next for our family, and we're hoping we could have a little bit of assistance in recovering financially and preparing for what may come next.
Anyone who knows Tyler knows Nova. Nova is a beautiful, kind, and affectionate Siberian Husky. She's saved me and Tyler more times than we can count.
Kevin is a cat that we took in as a rehome from northern Virginia! There was no logical reason that Kevin stood out to me when I saw a simple post of him on Facebook - but I knew instantly that he was meant to be in our family.
Anyone who knows us knows Nova and Kevin! Unfortunately, the vet has also become very familiar with Nova and Kevin.
Nova was showing strange symptoms of pain and discomfort, and her hair was shedding drastically more & much longer than it usually does. We took her in, and all of her labs came back normal, but they found a strange growth beneath her spine. They placed her on a LOT of pain medications - some of which caused her to experience adverse reactions like vomiting and diarrhea. There was even a day when we took her in because her diarrhea and fatigue got so bad, she looked worse off on the pain meds than she was before we brought her in. After an urgent care visit, the vet identified she was reacting poorly to the NSAID they prescribed her, and we decided to wean her off the pain medications after they replaced the NSAID. Because we can't afford an MRI to investigate the growth beneath her spine further, the vet also placed her on a 30 day course of antibiotics, and she seems to have gotten a bit better. We (and the vet) hoped that the growth was bacterial, and would disappear once her antibiotics course was complete. However, when they rechecked her with another xray, they saw that the growth did not decrease in size. They've placed her on another 30 days of antibiotics, and we're hoping that she continues to be okay.
When we adopted Kevin, we discovered he had tooth decay. The vet noted that we may need to have his teeth extracted if they did not improve by the time of his next appointment. The week before his follow up, Tyler noticed Kevin had some pink discharge coming out of his penis while he was grooming. We told the vet, and they discovered he has a layer of sediment and crystallization in his bladder. They advised we place him in a urinary treatment diet, and he seemed to be doing okay. Until one morning, we woke up to him attempting to pee all over the bedroom, following us around the room in complete distress, mounting to pee with nothing coming out, his tail twitching like crazy. We took him in for an emergency visit, and they had to have him flushed out and treated. The vet told us we were lucky we caught it when we did - he could have died that day from a urinary blockage. And the poor thing barely had time to recover before we needed to get five of his teeth extracted two weeks later...
Nova's medical issues and Kevin's medical issues happened at the SAME exact time. We're grateful that we had come to a financially secure place exactly three weeks before all of this happened, but our funds have been completely depleted. Several of our bills went unpaid for weeks, and I had to sell my car just so we could stay above water, catch up on bills, and buy groceries that was more than just instant ramen.
We've spent about $5500 out of pocket on their medical treatment in the past month and a half. Unfortunately, we did not have insurance for Nova or Kevin in ample time before everything happened, and our claims have been rejected due to the short timeframe between us signing them up and them having their treatments.
We aren't expecting to find outside help for the entire $5500 - this is what we signed up for when we decided to be pet parents. But after the dust has finally settled... Nova has started eating less again, and I just discovered bloody discharge on the floor of Kevin's litter box enclosure. Tyler and I are concerned about what will happen next for our family, and we're hoping we could have a little bit of assistance in recovering financially and preparing for what may come next.
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Maya Pagtakhan
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Virginia Beach, VA