Tonight at Rich & Holly's wonderful holiday party, our friends Hunter and Monica gave us an update on their dog Ellie, who recently had to go under the knife to repair a torn ACL. It turns out that medical care for dogs can be obscenely expensive -- and thanks to Hunter's ebullient storytelling -- funny as hell.
When Ellie got hurt, the vet told Hunter and Monica they had two ways to go. They could opt for the traditional surgery which just makes the leg usable again, or...they could go with the new procedure which repairs the poor doggie's leg with the latest greatest canine medical discoveries. Of course there's a catch: the new procedure costs twice as much.
Now as you all know if you've been keeping up with my blog, our friend Hunter is an ER doc (albeit for homo sapiens) and as such he's kind of knowledgeable about the whole practicing medicine thing. So he asks the vet exactly why the new procedure costs so much, and gets the standard jargon about how the new method is a delicate process, requires more time in the operating room, and blah blah blah... And it seems Ellie also gets the most expensive type of anesthesia known to man -- one that Hunter, as a board certified surgeon...has to get special permission to use on patients!
About the time Hunter starts pantomiming the way he works with Ellie on her rehabilitation exercises by moving her paws back and forth, I'm laughing so hard the 5 course holiday meal, cookies, appetizers and 3 homemade desserts are about to explode from my stomach like the creature from the movie 'Aliens.' Hahahahahahahahahaha...
Just when I thought I had contained the beast from bursting out of my bloated belly, Hunter put me over the top with his account of how in order to make sure Ellie stays off of her still healing leg, he spends his days carrying this "shaved-butt, limp-legged, sheep-chasing creature" up and down the stairs of their house. Man oh man, Hunter, thanks for contributing more than your share of holiday cheer.
And thank you, Holly and Rich, for a wonderful and festive party.
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