Yes- you can refuse any part.  Sometimes you really have to wrangle with the vet and you have to be firm and hold your ground.  I went through something similar were I was out of work from mid-Jan. until mid-May and, in the meantime (of course- bad luck) my Felv+ cat came down with cancer- I found the lump at the end of April.  Luckily, I started a new job mid-May but we did have to begin treatment (chemo) while I was still technically broke and unemployed.  I still don't know how I managed it-- a lot of things went unpaid in lieu of paying vet bills, so my credit sucks again, after I spent a year repairing it, but such is life.  I also had to borrow money, yet again, which sucks, but it was for my baby, so....I ended up losing Monkee to anemia anyway, but I would do it again the same if I had to do.

Recently, my mom and I rescued a starving adult cat from outside.  We had to take it to her vet b.c it had a bad upper respiratory infection.  But we were working on tracking down the owners (we eventually found and reunited them), so my mom did not want to be bullied into having all this stuff done on the cat if we weren't taking her in permanently and not mixing her with my mom's cat.  The vet really tried to force my mom into blood tests, Felv tests, all these things and my mom just flat out said, no, we aren't doing that (especially b/c we weren't exposing the cat to hers at all- they were never even in the same room).  My mom said they had a "stand-off" but in the end, my mom won and she got out of there with a $59 vet bill and the vet did only what we wanted- overall check-out of the cat; diagnosis of URI; providing us Clavamox as antibiotic; and telling us that everything we were already doing was right.  The owners also reimbursed us for the vet bill. 

So, it is possible, but like I said, you have to stand your ground and go in there already knowing what tests you want run and what you don't.  Stand firm.  Assure the vet that when the money is available, more comprehensive work will be done, but for now, you are doing the best you can.

-Caroline  


From:  "Kelley Saveika" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To:  felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
To:  felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject:  Re: need stuff
Date:  Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:43:15 -0500
>You can refuse whatever part of that you want.
>
>$65 is extraordinarily high for a vet visit.  I would find a cheaper vet.
>
>
>On 9/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Any idea what and where I csn buy an appetite stimulant?  here is the vet
> > visit broken down.
> >
> > it costs $75 for the local clinic to test for feline leukemia, rabies, and
> > distemper booster, and leukemia vacine
> >
> > $65 for my vet to have a 1st checkup
> >
> > $100 for blood work
> >
> > the cat has been exposed to some questionable cats so thats why he needs tyo
> > be checked to make sure he has not gotten leukemia
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Binx345
>
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