la_marée_haute
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Well for reasons beyond my control, and which are not by any fault of my own, my mum has decided that she can't "do" the whole medicine thing for my rats anymore.
You see we've gone through quite a few different meds to cure their URIs, to no avail as of yet.
This last one that I WANTED to try was too expensive and "complicated" (apparently you have to mix it up yourself etc etc), and it was the last straw for my mum. She says that we're sticking to Baytril and that is that.
But Baytril isn't working. Doxy and Baytril TOGETHER wasn't working. (They were/are on Baytril just until the new medication WAS going to come before my mum decided to give up on my rats.)
It's all an enormous shock for me. Before I got my rats me and my mum were EXTREMELY clear on the vet care thing. She said she would never let an animal suffer, and I believed her.
I just do not know what to do. I'm sitting here bawling my eyes out. They're sick. And, surprisingly, and shockingly ALL OF A SUDDEN I can't help them.
Will they be OK on Baytril all their lives? Or Baytril and Doxy?? Even though they don't improve because of them?? That's all my mother agrees to do. (Mainly because the money, and also actually because she is just sick of ringing up the vet constantly about new meds. She just wants to pick up something. In and out. Without any more conversations which IIIII SHOULD be doing, but cannot. ARGH. Sigh...) Even THOUGH I'm pretty positive they are not at the point where they need the meds all their lives... I believe we need to try new meds. It just sucks that those have to be "too expensive" (which I didn't think would be an issue at all before I got my rats, because of the clear agreement with my mum/parents).
I feel irresponsible or... something. I feel horrible. But it's nothing I can really control without making my own living. I just didn't think this would happen.
I REALLY hope that this will pass and my mum will change her mind (on her own... because whatever I say does nothing. she KNOWS how serious it all is, she just doesn't want to deal). I hope I can reply to this thread in a few days with "She changed her mind! They're gettin new meds!" but that's so incredibly doubtfull.
Hopeless. I feel helpless and hopeless.
You see we've gone through quite a few different meds to cure their URIs, to no avail as of yet.
This last one that I WANTED to try was too expensive and "complicated" (apparently you have to mix it up yourself etc etc), and it was the last straw for my mum. She says that we're sticking to Baytril and that is that.
But Baytril isn't working. Doxy and Baytril TOGETHER wasn't working. (They were/are on Baytril just until the new medication WAS going to come before my mum decided to give up on my rats.)
It's all an enormous shock for me. Before I got my rats me and my mum were EXTREMELY clear on the vet care thing. She said she would never let an animal suffer, and I believed her.
I just do not know what to do. I'm sitting here bawling my eyes out. They're sick. And, surprisingly, and shockingly ALL OF A SUDDEN I can't help them.
Will they be OK on Baytril all their lives? Or Baytril and Doxy?? Even though they don't improve because of them?? That's all my mother agrees to do. (Mainly because the money, and also actually because she is just sick of ringing up the vet constantly about new meds. She just wants to pick up something. In and out. Without any more conversations which IIIII SHOULD be doing, but cannot. ARGH. Sigh...) Even THOUGH I'm pretty positive they are not at the point where they need the meds all their lives... I believe we need to try new meds. It just sucks that those have to be "too expensive" (which I didn't think would be an issue at all before I got my rats, because of the clear agreement with my mum/parents).
I feel irresponsible or... something. I feel horrible. But it's nothing I can really control without making my own living. I just didn't think this would happen.
I REALLY hope that this will pass and my mum will change her mind (on her own... because whatever I say does nothing. she KNOWS how serious it all is, she just doesn't want to deal). I hope I can reply to this thread in a few days with "She changed her mind! They're gettin new meds!" but that's so incredibly doubtfull.
Hopeless. I feel helpless and hopeless.
