I am giving this review a 1 star review specifically for the doctor there by the name of Chelsie Daniel. We brought our dog Midnight in on April 25th, 2017 with issues related to her randomly losing l... Read More
I am giving this review a 1 star review specifically for the doctor there by the name of Chelsie Daniel. We brought our dog Midnight in on April 25th, 2017 with issues related to her randomly losing limb control at times, flicking her head and scratching at her ears. After a very short exam Daniel insists that it's probably just a pulled muscle. No big deal. She provided us with anti-inflammatory medication. We get our dog started on that and she said it would probably be about 2 weeks before she is healed. So we give it two weeks, and nothing changes. Since they aren't the cheapest place, we decided to wait a little longer before bringing her in a second time for the same issue. We take her in again on May 27th. This time Daniel is suspecting Valley Fever, and let me just pause for a moment... From the symptoms we provided Daniel, how in the world did she get Valley Fever?? Whatever, "the doctor knows best" right? Wrong. She insists on doing a blood test for Valley Fever. We agree to it. Results take about a week to come back. While we're waiting for the results, I did 5 minutes of research to find out there was a high possibility it was Vestibular Disease. A week passes and they hadn't called us about the results yet, so we called them and a lady at the desk answered saying yes the results came back... Okay, so why didn't we get a call? We have to wait for the doctor to call us because the lady at the counter wasn't able to discuss that information with us. A few hours later a different doctor calls us with the results, no Valley Fever. While we're on the phone with her, we suggest that it might be Vestibular Disease, and she agreed with us 100%. Wow, I didn't know I was a vet. They should've paid me for diagnosing my dog. So at this point we are almost 2 months in to limb control issues and ear scratching. They rack up our bill with an ear cleaning, ear cleaning solution, and ear drops. The medications worked for a very short period of time. We call them to see if there's anything else that we can be doing... They suggested neurological imaging, a CT, or a sedated ear cleaning. Of course with the prices of any of those, we can not afford any of the options. Our dog miraculously got better for a week, and then June 29th came and she was back to the bottom. Falling over, can't walk straight, very lethargic. Sunday, July 2nd, was almost rock bottom, we couldn't get her to drink a drop of water. We put Midnight in the back of our car and started rushing her to the hospital before we stopped ourselves and thought, maybe if we got chicken broth, we could get her to drink something. That plan didn't work. So I take Monday, July 3rd off planning to take her into a different vet. I was up at 4:30am. 6am rolls around and I can't even get my dog to stand up. Whenever I tried, she kept lunging forward and running into things, knocking me down. I panicked and called my boyfriend to come home from work, we need to take her to the hospital. Less than 3 hours later, we were laying with her on the hospital floor, tears streaming down our face while we were saying goodbye to our beloved 4 year old dog. We blame ourselves for not pushing Chelsie Daniel to investigate more. But at the time, we trusted her judgement. Her judgement was way off, and she misdiagnosed our dog not once, but twice. She wasted almost 2 months of our dogs life. There is a chance that our dog could've still been here today if it wasn't for the misdiagnosing. I am deeply disappointed with Chelsie Daniel and hope that the management takes a second look at her. Read Less