Charleston Veterinary Referral Center

Doesn't Recommend

Larry W.

Joined 1 year ago

Needs Your Money,Don't Go Here. When you first walk in you think your in a hospital for people, very nice and friendly employees. Everything is very welcoming and proffesional.

Then the Money Drain starts. My Dog has been in there for almost two weeks(13 days) and my bill is up to around $20000. Yes $20000 its no mistake. For some reason what was diagnosed as Cushings disease, a happy disease, and pancreatitis has now escalated to a series of down days and up days resulting in doctors treating the symptoms and not the cause.

Our first day there a sonagram showed a tumor on my dogs adreanal gland(causes cushings). Also a case of pancreatitis(curable by diet change). After several days(7-8)of working on the problems caused by the tumor pressing on the adreanal gland(low blood sugar, low sodium) they finally decided to operate after I insisted they work on the problem and not the symptoms.

It is now 3 days after surgery,plenty of time to recover, but for some reason my dog is still in pain and not eating. I recieved a call today suggesting I spend some more money and allow them to keep treating my pet for what I believe is probably a mistake they have made in surgery and yeah I almost forgot, the pancreatitis that they have already cured has reappeared the day I was to pick him up.

Do they know what they are doing, I don;t think so. They ran up a large bill and waited over a week to remove the tumor that was causing the problems they worked so hard and exspensively to correct. Now the tumor is gone, my dog is now in worse shape than when he went in and their solution is to keep him sedated so they can watch him and charge me another $1500 a day. Really how many fluids and pain medication can a 14lb dog take in 13 days.

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