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I originally posted this in a golf forum I belong to. But I am finally transferring it to here. Hope it does people some good if they run into it. He was diagnosed 1/13/2009. I am including the original post dates from the other forum.
January 21, 2009: For all you people who have pets out there, please, please, please spend the $300 or so a year to get insurance for your pets! My five year old dog has a really bad disease called ITP (Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura) which basically causes his red blood cells to attack his blood platelets. We spent way more on his treatment than I ever would have believed I would (we don't have kids, so our dogs are our babies) and now he is home (at their suggestion) but the prognosis is still poor. He goes in Friday to check his platelet count again and we'll see where we stand then. We are giving him every chance to get better but we aren't going to drag it out for our sake. We figured it would be the 3 year old spastic case dog that would need the insurance because she is a freakin' daredevil (we just know she's gonna break legs in the future!) but she has it now, well as soon as it goes through underwriting.
Please take a look at this website: www.petinsurance.com and at least consider buying this for your pets. I had been on the fence about getting them insurance for close to a year now. I wish I had done it.
January 21, 2009: For all you people who have pets out there, please, please, please spend the $300 or so a year to get insurance for your pets! My five year old dog has a really bad disease called ITP (Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura) which basically causes his red blood cells to attack his blood platelets. We spent way more on his treatment than I ever would have believed I would (we don't have kids, so our dogs are our babies) and now he is home (at their suggestion) but the prognosis is still poor. He goes in Friday to check his platelet count again and we'll see where we stand then. We are giving him every chance to get better but we aren't going to drag it out for our sake. We figured it would be the 3 year old spastic case dog that would need the insurance because she is a freakin' daredevil (we just know she's gonna break legs in the future!) but she has it now, well as soon as it goes through underwriting.
Please take a look at this website: www.petinsurance.com and at least consider buying this for your pets. I had been on the fence about getting them insurance for close to a year now. I wish I had done it.