Guys I don't know who else to ask about this please give us your feedback.
An update to this thread:
https://www.rabbitsonline.net/threads/poor-sweet-6m-old-molly-has-glaucoma.93043/unread
The tl/dr, Poor sweet 6 month old Molly, a flemish giant we adopted from a family raising them for meat, needs her eye removed due to glaucoma. Since the last thread, she has been seen by an eye specialist who said it did NOT have to be removed, put her on new eye drops, all was well until this morning when she was being checked in for her spay surgery at another hospital. The brakes were put on when they did her eye pressure test, it's awful, the eye DOES have to be removed despite us doing everything we can and getting 3 different hospital opinions/treatments.
Here's our dilemma:
The eye specialist hospital I call them, who is a very popular New England area emergency/specialist hospital (Bulger) is insisting that it is dangerous to keep her under anesthetic for both the spay and the eye removal and want to do two separate surgeries. It would take too long and be life threatening. We're told 3 different vets there were consulted and all 3 agree. They quoted over $2,000 to accomplish both. The other hospital we were referred to, Tufts Medical Center, another major New England emergency/specialist hospital, said they can do both at the same time no problem, and it's half the price at $1,000.... but, they're a teaching hospital......
We don't know what to do. My husband just lost his job two days ago, we really don't have this kind of money to begin with especially right before the holidays. One hospital says its dangerous and wants to charge double, one says its fine and wants to charge half. The second hospital will be four hour drive round trip as well. We can't just nix the spay, as she's been humping her (fixed) bunny husband so much they're separated which makes them miserable, and when they do have their supervised play time, she now greets him with a squirt of pee (!!!), so not spaying her is not an option.
Does anyone have any feedback on this? What would you do???
Of course everyone I ask says to put her down. We love her!!!!
Thank you SO much in advance for your thoughts......
An update to this thread:
https://www.rabbitsonline.net/threads/poor-sweet-6m-old-molly-has-glaucoma.93043/unread
The tl/dr, Poor sweet 6 month old Molly, a flemish giant we adopted from a family raising them for meat, needs her eye removed due to glaucoma. Since the last thread, she has been seen by an eye specialist who said it did NOT have to be removed, put her on new eye drops, all was well until this morning when she was being checked in for her spay surgery at another hospital. The brakes were put on when they did her eye pressure test, it's awful, the eye DOES have to be removed despite us doing everything we can and getting 3 different hospital opinions/treatments.
Here's our dilemma:
The eye specialist hospital I call them, who is a very popular New England area emergency/specialist hospital (Bulger) is insisting that it is dangerous to keep her under anesthetic for both the spay and the eye removal and want to do two separate surgeries. It would take too long and be life threatening. We're told 3 different vets there were consulted and all 3 agree. They quoted over $2,000 to accomplish both. The other hospital we were referred to, Tufts Medical Center, another major New England emergency/specialist hospital, said they can do both at the same time no problem, and it's half the price at $1,000.... but, they're a teaching hospital......
We don't know what to do. My husband just lost his job two days ago, we really don't have this kind of money to begin with especially right before the holidays. One hospital says its dangerous and wants to charge double, one says its fine and wants to charge half. The second hospital will be four hour drive round trip as well. We can't just nix the spay, as she's been humping her (fixed) bunny husband so much they're separated which makes them miserable, and when they do have their supervised play time, she now greets him with a squirt of pee (!!!), so not spaying her is not an option.
Does anyone have any feedback on this? What would you do???
Of course everyone I ask says to put her down. We love her!!!!
Thank you SO much in advance for your thoughts......