Koda's treatment is chugging along, he's been on Doxy now for a while, and I do understand what the Vet's course of action is as it was explained more fully to me, but if anyone can give me their opinion on this, that would be great:
I understand heartworm is expensive, I didn't think this was going to be cheap, but thus far we've spent $500 something on his diagnosis (radiographs, bloodwork, etc.), and the Vet says that the Immiticide is going to run $1,000. That's $1,500 thus far, plus on top of it, he's going to have to stay overnight when he gets the shots, I'm sure, that costs, plus any pain meds he needs, pretty soon he's going on prednisone. It sounds like this is going to make it's way into the $2,000 range. I know heartworm treatment varies in cost from state to state, but does this sound excessive to anyone? The reason this is coming up is that my Father spoke to someone he works with who is apparently in contact with some rescues here, and when he told him what it's cost us thus far and how much we still need to do for Koda's treatment, he said that sounded high. In reading about the range of cost in treatment, it don't remember it going above $1,200, really. Whatever we need to pay, we're going to pay it, I just want to know if around $2,000 sounds weird to anyone...
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