Thank Heavens for a quick thinking Mommy

Gma Mary....

Well, I was bad last night, I ended up going to the animal emergency room.

Last night was such nice tempetures to have windows open...breeze coming in, just wonderful. Mom had to go outside about 8:45 PM and was out for about 15 minutes. While she was outside this bottle came down on the floor. I investigated it. While investigating this bottle, it was rattling...I had to get whatever it was. So I chewed the bottle open and got the little white candy out.

When mom she came back in she seen a pill bottle laying on the floor chewed opened and found no candy. She looked at the bottle and it was her predisone medication...mom hollared for dad to come and he ask her how many I have eaten. Mom wrote on the calendar what she was supposed to take that day, she was to take 4 for 3 days, 3 for 3 days, 2 for 3 days, 1 for 3 days...well she took a total of 30 and the quanity on the bottle said 40....so I had 10 at 10mg.

Mom went online and googled dog ate predisone and read some info quick as she was calling the emergency center...she can multitask quite well. What she read and what the emergency center told her to do was the same. Now's it's 9:05 PM

Mom made me an egg quick and I ate it as usual. Then it was followed up with some hydrogen perioxide....that stuff was bubbly inside me ....soon all my food came up, including my supper from earlier that night. Mom being relieved, called back to ER like she was told to, they recommended me to come up and get flushed out with charcoal. So thats what we did. It took about an hour and half to get there, another 45 minutes or so I think I would have been close to gma mary's place. We were just outside of Williamsport.

We got to ER around 11:00, they did bloodwork, they did the charcoal...that will absorb anything else that was left in me...which they don't think any was in me with mom's quick action and a whole bunch of fluid. The doctor said if he were prescribing me this medication he'd be giving me 20mg for my size, I had taken 100mg, but with mom giving me the hydrogen peroxide....maybe just maybe I had 20mg left.,..so the charcoal absorbed the last 20mg.

My bloodwork came back everything was good!

We got back home around 2 am. I was hungry but mom didn't give me any food except water, water, water.

Mom takes 75% of the blame for this, something that shouldn't have been done. But I got the last 25% because I shouldn't be chewing everything that hits the floor.

I"m good, feeling good as if this never happened. No worries...thanks to mom's quick actions....but one thing, she never panic, just went through the motions quickly and efficiently. Thanks mom!!

Abby

(OMG!!! That was a close one for sure. Children whether four or two footed, have made this mistake. Thanks to Angie's cool head and quick thinking, our Abby is still with us. Bless you both. Think I have another white hair in my head......)