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#1218167
Anna13
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 Sick Snake, bad liver...too many white blood cells?!?!
Well I took my snake into the vet yesterday and had her checked. I thought that she may have a respiratory infection because she was breathing with her mouth open and I could see her breathe. But she hadn’t done it in a few days. The vet gave her a physical and took blood samples. She was a bit dehydrated, the vet gave me some medications to inject her with every 3 days for the "possible" infection. Well it turns out that my baby is having a problem with her liver. There are too many white blood cells, but he can’t tell exactly what the problem is. It could be cancer, just an infection etc. He wants to take a biopsy of the liver and give her new medication....which all comes out to be about $800.
I am heart broken, I cant afford this so the only thing I can do is get the medication and hope that she gets better. I think the price is ridiculous, shes so tiny...if I had the money to do something like this I would. But worst case scenario she passes away and I get a new snake. I don’t want to sound so cruel, but I just can’t afford it. Has anyone else heard/had this sort of problems in snakes before? I’d go get a second opinion somewhere else but I haven’t found any other places, besides that it is expensive to do the diagnostics.
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Keristen
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Message To: Anna13 In reference to Message Id: 1218167
Sick Snake, bad liver...too many white blood cells?!?!
some vets have a thing called care credit its a credit card which you make payments on.Ask about care credit and call around to anyother vets around you to see if they offer and except it,you can even do the application online,go to google and search care credit..you make payments on it like a credit card i used it for my cat when he was really sick...hope it helps some and im not too late on my reply
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