What Price Love?

2/11/06:
Visit to local vet to find out if cat's back legs are hurt several days after fall from tree:
$87.00

2/18/06:
Deposit for Bitey's hospitalization and diagnosis at Kitty Surgical Center: $2,000

2/21/06:
The balance for the rest of Bitey's diagnostic tests and hospital care at the Kitty Surgical Center:
$733.00 (See Invoice).

(FYI: The $2,733.00 total at the Kitty Surgical Center was discounted from $3,400 by the kindly doctor who cared for Bitey. I guess she knew what was coming.)

2/21/06:
Cage and sick kitty care items at Petco:
$136.34

2/22/06:
First (and least expensive) visit to the lovely Orange County kitty neurologist: $79.00

2/27/06:
Kitty MRI, including anesthesia, as ordered by lovely OC kitty neurologist, and performed by Kitty Medical Imagining Center (also in the OC):
$1,169.95 (See Invoice).

3/1/06:
Re-check and first dose of Kitty Chemo at Orange County Neurologist's: $249.00

3/2/06
Consultation, chemo, and first radiation treatment (including anesthesia) from West LA Kitty Oncologist:
$796.27

3/2/06
Another visit to Petco for wee-wee pads, kitty wipes, and kitty diapers:
$65.91

3/9/06
2nd radiation treatment, chemo etc at West LA Oncologist:
$393.62

3/13/06
Total costs for all hospitalization, bladder expression ($10 per squeeze), medication, and loving care at local vet's office for several weeks (and I'm almost positive there was a big "kitty pity" discount somewhere in here:
$423.00

3/16/06
3rd radiation treatment and chemo at West LA Oncologist:
$388.90

3/20/06
Bitey's stay at local vet while his parent's take brief pre-scheduled weekend vacation in San Diego for World Baseball Classic (and come home early b/c they miss their sick kitty:
$105

3/23/06
Chemo, recheck and blood count at West LA Oncologist:
$226.98

3/30/06
Re-Check, Blood Count, Kitty Chemo at West LA Oncologist:
$279.44

So, without bothering to factor in gas prices all the drives to the O.C. and West LA, the grand total comes to:

(Drumroll please)

$7,133.41

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And This?



And This?












Priceless.


(Okay, has the priceless thing been done enough? Yes. But I charged this all to my Mastercard, so I earned it!)

Speaking of which, here are my favorite invoices: