u/ATWWildflowers

Tale as old as time, I know, but I’m tired. It could be literally any ailment, but for example, we saw a dog for an ear infection like a month ago. The owner reluctantly pays for an ear swab. The dog has historically had terrible skin and a chronic ear infections, you could smell the yeast from across the room. He claims to regularly clean this dog’s ears at home, but clearly not well, and he’s using some BS scented wipes off Amazon so it’s probably been making it worse anyways. He says he wants to know what we can do to get rid of these recurring ear infections. Won’t pre-approve anything because “the doctor hasn’t even seen him yet” (even though the doctor hasn’t been seeing him for years and has seen probably 100 dogs with ear infections this month alone).

I end up having to call him with results (I’m a VA) and I go through the works: ear cleaning, ear flush, posatex, allergy injection, medicated shampoo, conditioner, derm diet, cone, apoquel, prednisone, the fucking works (very politely and thoroughly mind you). I get him to take the ear flush and the posatex, but he won’t even let us clean the dogs ears in clinic because he says he’ll just do it at home. This is the type of ear cleaning that would take 30 minutes and a whole pack of gauze, I tell him it’s going to be difficult for him to clean the ears as thoroughly as necessary. I tell him that if he doesn’t want to keep dealing with recurring ear infections then he needs to be doing more to treat and prevent them. He wasn’t rude about it, but he clearly thought I was just trying to upsell him. So this poor, sweet dog goes home just as itchy as he walked in the door.

Flash forward to this month, the dog is back for vaccines and he’s pissed that the dog still has an ear infection even though he already spent “so much” money on it (~ $140 for ear swab, flush, and posatex). And yet he claims he still has plenty of the ear flush so clearly he hasn’t been fucking using it. OBVIOUSLY IT’S NOT FUCKING BETTER!!!!! Like am I speaking fucking English?!!! We have been TRYING TO HELP YOU.

Obviously ik this sub is biased, which is fine because it’s too late to change my mind anyways, I just want to feel like I made the right choice.

I live very close to Austin, so obviously UT is most people’s first choice for college around here. I don’t care about any rivalry between them, I thought both schools had very nice campuses when I toured and I know they’re both good universities. TAMU makes a lot more sense for me because I want a career in veterinary medicine (BIMS major) and I just have interests in agriculture I want to explore as well. I literally work with a veterinarian who graduated from A&M but went to UT for undergrad and she told me I should do undergrad at A&M…

I accepted my admission way back in November but with more and more people I know committing to UT (or the CAP program) I’m getting FOMO for sure. It doesn’t help that literally everyone assumes I’m going to A&M because I must be functionally brain dead and didn’t get into UT Austin and then when they find out I did (🙄) they go on and on about how I’m making a huge mistake and my life is basically ruined. The way people describe College Station around here you’d think committing to UT was the only way to save yourself from the rapture in August.

So basically while I know A&M is a good school, it’s hard not to let everyone get under my skin, and I’d just like to have some validation that I’m not crazy please 🥹