On Monday evening, one of the cats (Cosmo) started coughing and retching violently and was generally ill enough to warrant a visit to the vets. Respiritory illness was originally diagnosed, with a warning that it could also be something stuck in his respiritory system; added to this was the fact that he'd got a hole in one of his teeth. Anyway, after much worry and faffing, today they put him under and had a root around to see what they could find; what they found was a big blade of grass stuck in his nasal cavity. They also removed the holey tooth while he was out for the count.
I'm going to collect him later on, but have already been warned that this is going to set us back by £300 to £400. We have insurance, but that doesn't cover the tooth removal; however, by doing it as part and parcel of the operation to remove the grass, it should make it a whole lot cheaper i.e. we won't be paying for the general anasthetic etc, just the vet's time.
Still, it won't be tuppence ha'penny. And added to the fact that my Sat Nav was pinched from my car overnight, it is proving to be a very expensive week. So much so that Jacob's christmas present bike went from a posh ultra-cool one to one from Tesco that I could get through the Club Card Voucher swap. Squeezed middle indeed.
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