Bella Rocks Radiation

Bella is doing fantasticly well with her radiation treatments. You wouldn’t have known she’d even been to the vet, but for the large shaved area on her shoulder that is now adorned with a grid to help guide the radiation treatments for increased precision.
She’s had two so far (Friday and Today) and will have a daily treatments through Thursday. Reports indicate this treatment, 5 days of targeted radiation therapy, reduces pain for 2-4 months in 75% on patients. I’m hopeful we end up on good side of this average.
I am really liking the doctor treating Bella. His name is Dr. Lyons and he is very honest and realistic. As the doctor who does the Palliative Radiation treatment his main goal is often pain management; exactly my hope for Bella. Unfortunately before I got to Dr. Lyons though there was some confusion with the cost of the treatment I chose for Bella.

It has turned out to be a significant amount more than the other doctor told me in my initial consultation. While I’m happy I went ahead with the treatment anyway,  I have to admit that I had a moment of panic. It’s not like the first price was so great. But what, was I going to not give Bella this treatment because of the cost difference? What kind of person does that? I kind of wanted to throw up thinking that thought, but it’s fricken 2009 of course you have to think about cost. And to make matters worse there isn’t any certainty that the treatments are even going to work.

Thankfully I do have insurace to help with at least some of the costs! Now  just I wish I had more insurance… And lest I sound like a broken record… if you’re reading this and you have a pet and you haven’t gotten insurance…please… run don’t walk to get yourself some!

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