Quick action……………..

It has been a nightmare afternoon.
Maggie had her vet appointment this morning and although we have no more antibiotics, we are to continue with the hibitane wash and loxicom/metacam for another week or so to keep the area clean. It is healing, but slowly.

Feeling quietly confident, we did a bit of shopping and when we got back to the car and loaded up, Maggie was violently sick.
When we got home, she threw up again on the front lawn, came indoors and had a long drink. We let her into the back garden where she started to eat grass and threw up again.
I got lunch but she was unable to settle, going in and out of all the rooms, pacing up and down and we could tell there was something wrong.

Hubby took her for a short walk and she was violently sick again.
She’d had no breakfast this morning, so we thought it might have been travel sickness but then Hubby smelt her breath and alarm bells started to ring as it smelt of peardrops.
I was on the phone to the vet immediately as we thought she’d picked up something toxic when we’d stopped en route as normal in the morning to let her have a wee.
They were marvellous, and as I was talking to them, Hubby got in the car and was on his way. We’ve seen them in action with suspected poisoning and they are brilliant.
He got there within half an hour. The team were ready to do blood and sugar tests, and she was given the whole nine yards toxic screening as we had no idea what it could be, the results being processed on site and available in ten minutes. Kidneys, liver, heart all clear.
I am so glad we signed on with this vet. The local ones have to send their tests away unless it’s a pee dip test.

She’s good.

The vet said that whatever it was, by being so violently ill and so often, she had got rid of it thanks to her own immune system and it was unlikely anything remained inside her to do any damage. However, she gave her an injection to stop her being sick (her throat is inflamed and sore because of the vomiting) and we have a charcoal solution we have to give her twice a day for three days. We’ve managed one and it is going to be an interesting exercise to get that much in her orally so hope I can mix it with something like custard or yogurt.
She’s extremely dopey and the sleep will help, though we are watching her carefully. We’ve managed to get her to eat a little and she’s drinking OK which is good news.

It has been an anxious time, and the relief I felt when Hubby rang to say she was OK and he was making his way quietly home was immense.
His quick reaction and getting her to the vet so fast speaks volumes and I dread to think of the alternative. It has knocked him for six too, and now the adrenalin rush is over, he’s crashed out on the settee.

There are no clues as to what it could have been. Perhaps she sniffed something she shouldn’t that had been discarded by a visitor, or someone had put poison down for rodents or vermin and she’d picked that up, though she’s never been a ‘sweeper’ and tends to sniff but leave alone.
She’s been checked out though and seems OK, but any concerns and we will be back in contact with the vet no matter what time it is.

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