Bite the Bullet

Taylor has a growth on her leg. You found it while shaving her last night. Removing the growth cost $660. There goes Christmas. They give you a lot of options when you drop her off for the surgery. Do you want her to be given pain meds? Forty extra dollars. How about fluids? Seventy-five more bones. Oh you don’t have to do any of this if you don’t want to – your dog will just suffer that’s all. Why even offer these things as options then? Either you need them or you don’t. You’re the doctor – tell me what is necessary. If I knew, then why am I paying you? What if they had offered these options when you’re dad was in the hospital? Well does he really need the pain medication? How much to just have him bite on a bullet? How important is anesthesia anyway? How much would it have been to simply cut off Taylor’s leg? She’d get over it. Lots of dogs learn to live that way and it would probably keep her off the furniture.
You should have asked.