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monkey5sPansy, the cat who had to spend three nights at the vet's, and had expensive blood tests done, came home today with the not-surprising doomed diagnosis of Feline Infectious Peritonitis. The vet's wife dropped her off, told me that she'd phoned in a prescription for antibiotics that I would need to start tomorrow, and made arrangements to stop in three weeks to give Pansy another steroid shot.
OK, I was dreading getting the bill, but didn't ask about it.
This evening I checked my banking online, and saw that there was a nearly $1000 charge from the vet on my VISA card, that I had used the last time with them. That was the kind of amount I feared, but the problem I'm really having is that I wasn't told it would be put there. So tomorrow I will have to call and ask how soon she's going to mail me the bill for which I have already (unknowingly) paid.
Sometimes I get the feeling the vet's wife (who is his tech, office manager, etc.) is a little more money-focused than the vet himself. Which is not necessarily bad, since they need to have money to live on, too, just... in this case, it feels a leetle unethical.
Edited to add: I just looked at the itemized account, and the vet also tagged my card for almost $300 on the Jan. 5th- I had not contacted them for Pansy until the 13th! WOW AM I STRESSED NOW!
OK, I was dreading getting the bill, but didn't ask about it.
This evening I checked my banking online, and saw that there was a nearly $1000 charge from the vet on my VISA card, that I had used the last time with them. That was the kind of amount I feared, but the problem I'm really having is that I wasn't told it would be put there. So tomorrow I will have to call and ask how soon she's going to mail me the bill for which I have already (unknowingly) paid.
Sometimes I get the feeling the vet's wife (who is his tech, office manager, etc.) is a little more money-focused than the vet himself. Which is not necessarily bad, since they need to have money to live on, too, just... in this case, it feels a leetle unethical.
Edited to add: I just looked at the itemized account, and the vet also tagged my card for almost $300 on the Jan. 5th- I had not contacted them for Pansy until the 13th! WOW AM I STRESSED NOW!
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Date: 2014-01-17 01:35 am (UTC)Not a time when you need to be worrying about being ripped off. Not being told before being charged is crappy. Good luck with the call tomorrow.