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His blood work came back fine. They said his sugar was a teeny bit high, but that sometimes happens when they're stressing from being at the hospital, and that he was a little dehydrated, which didn't make much sense to me, given he has water available 24/7, but the vet tech pointed out that he might just not have taken a drink in a little while, plus the time he's now been at the vet (he got hurt at 8:15, it's now midnight) but that it's not a problem now because he's on IV fluids anyway.

He also confirmed something for me that I've suspected... Barnum doesn't have a regular vet yet because I haven't found one I'm happy with. I've taken him to the VCA pet hospitals, two different ones, and in both cases didn't feel comfortable, it seemed like they were trying to upsell me, and he said he'd heard that before. Bastards. But the emergency vet will give me some references of other vets.

Speaking of which, I asked what kind of condition he's going to be in when I pick him up in the morning (trying to plan for what to do with him, if I needed to be watching him or what) and he was talking about transferring him to his regular vet to continue being observed and possibly receiving more injections, which means, joy, a few hundred bucks MORE over the $1200 currently being shelled out. I guess I'll know more in the morning when I get him, because if it was just a matter of keeping him caged up and still I could run him up to Alex's mom's and use one of her kennels to lock him in to keep him still. But if he's going to need even more steroid injections... (sigh) I guess I cross that bridge when I get to it.

So much for payday.