17th August 2006
Where’s a Rock?

Our cat had better know that we really, really like him, because he turns out to be a very expensive item.

We picked him up today from the vet and found out that the bill was an outrageous $283.00, a sum I am neither prepared for nor was expecting. I was thinking $120, maybe $150. I don’t know where that’s coming from — we’re blown out from my talker’s GTG last weekend and other associated expenses; there’s quite a few bills that were waiting on my check from to get here (which it hasn’t yet….grrr…) but now that’ll be completely soaked by this fucking vet bill. We WILL NOT be going back to this guy again, he gave the cat far more than he needed to recover from his ordeal. While being a more personable vet in general, he was not worth that much money.

So now we’re not only screwed, we’re REALLY screwed. All money that would be normally saved up is going to bills and even then we’ll be short.

I’m finding it very hard to figure out why, when I’m making more money than I ever have, and MOST of it is extra, we’re sinking farther and farther into the hole? HOW IS THIS HAPPENING????

Honest to fuck, I need a break. Somebody give me a fucking chance to not have to worry every single day about money, please?

Just when I want to crawl into a hole or spend the entire night on the couch is when I need to buckle down even harder because otherwise it’ll only get worse. I hate this shit.

Kids: Enjoy your time before 18. Adulthood sucks ass.


Posted: on Thursday, August 17th, 2006 at 17:28.
Filed under: Money/Finances.
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  1. 1 On August 21st, 2006, Marie UNITED STATES (79 comments) said:

    I hope you find treatment someplace cheaper. Good luck, though. Going to the vet, especially an emergency vet, is never ever cheap or reasonable. You can only justify it to yourself because your cat was very ill, even though it doesn’t pay the bill.
    You do learn to tell vets to leave out most of the unnecessary stuff after several scary bills. Like the stupid fish flavored medicine the vet said that Beau wouldn’t mind taking (hahahaha) that was $15 extra. Do not agree to stuff like that. If you need a pill gun or any supplies, ask us! :P We’ll let you borrow our stuff instead of buying it from the vet for like, $10.
    Vets get you for a lot of things, a lot of them small things. It’s five dollars here, 10 dollars there. It all adds up. Personally, your $200 bill does not surprise me. I didn’t even blink at that. When we took Beau to get his bladder inspected for infection, a procedure we thought would be about $150 turned out to be over $300. Some of the stuff you get charged for can’t be helped but you will learn what is right for your cat and what can be left out. We use two vets here in Waterloo and one is a bit cheaper than the other but really, they’re all expensive. If you find a vet that’s reasonable, please let us know. Welcome to the wonderful world of normal vet bills. Lets hope that nothing worse happens to Leo, for both your sake.

  2. 2 On August 21st, 2006, Nathan UNITED STATES (3 comments) said:

    The problem with this vet bill is that it was way out of proportion for what we’ve paid in the past for this procedure. Normally it costs us a between $75 and $140 to have the cat opened up — to suddenly have a $280 bill for it was nothing less than a complete and utter shock.

    The second issue was that this vet required the payment, in full, all at once. The other vets we were able to pay it off little by little over a few months. THAT we could have handled — being socked for near $300 all at once really hurts.

    Here’s hoping the cat doesn’t get bad again.

  3. 3 On September 3rd, 2006, Ayessa UNITED STATES (12 comments) said:

    I think bills, and budgets suck ass as it is. I like you am making more money than I ever have, and haven’t really added on any more bills, in fact I think I’ve taken one away and yet I still pinch pennies. If you ever figure out what this black hole is be sure to let me know.

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