FYI: Most of this is in pieces on Facebook.
So, I don’t know exactly how this happened, but I have a pretty good idea. I was getting ready for our Alaska cruise, and was switching purses. I know I had all the edible stuff higher than Macy can reach when I got distracted and ran a quick upstairs errand.
I come downstairs and find Macy eating Orbit gum.
As always when little beagle girls are naughty, I grab syringe and hydrogen peroxide. Dulce swallow hers and upchucks. Macy, drama queen, fits me tooth and nail.
And then doesn’t upchuck.
Well, I run her to the emergency vet, and on the way she produces copious amount of stomach contents, including the chewed up gum.
Emergency clinic people say she didn’t eat enough to hurt her, especially since it was Orbit, and oh, please don’t do the hydrogen peroxide anymore as they can aspirate.
I learn on Thursday that the hydrogen peroxide can also burn, which is what happened to poor Macy.
She weighed around 15.5 pounds the last time she went to the vet. Wednesday I was running getting ready of the trip, and noticed vomiting and diarrhea, but didn’t worry about it, as she is a beagle. But Wednesday night I notice that she is substantially lighter.
So off to the regular vet we go on Thursday as she is not eating. I recognize only one of the vet staff, and he works with Esmond, not Baber, and Cordias is off.
My first issue – no phone call by 10:00 am telling me she’s been seen and is still alive. No phone call by 12:00 am either, and am told I will hear from the vet by 12:30. Tech calls, and reads me the riot act about inducing vomiting by hydrogen peroxide – my response: then we need a safer protocol because beagles are naughty.
I stop by the clinic to check on her on the way home, and she is noticeably better. Have a conversation with Dr. Barber, where she mentioned that Dr. Cordias lost her dog while on a Alaskan cruise. Well, yeah, I knew that but did you have to remind me.
They give me choices, as they want two rounds of IV fluids and so do I. Oh, and the evening vet staff is better than the morning – they got told who I was. Probably the second call when I referred to Dr. Esmond as Kirk – I asked, if Dr. Barber can’t get to her right away, please ask Kirk on her.
Shift her to the emergency vet at the end of the day, then back to them in the morning. Didn’t really work for me if I am cruising and I want to spend the evening with her to decide if I am going.
Send her home with the IV capped, keep an eye on her and see if you can get her to eat ID, then back to the vet. Oh, the pet sitter has a taxi service so that works.
So we go home, we spend some time loving each other and by 5:00 am we realize that we both made some mistakes but we love each other, and head out to the cruise.
I’m talking to the vet clinic in the morning and after the flight to Seattle, realizing all the time I can always get on a plane back to Dallas. I’m also watching Dulce on the surveillance cameras, and Macy after she gets home from the vet. I have an App for that, and I can look at the dogs anytime I want on the cruise. I have plenty of people who would go to the house if I see something wrong, and a system to get them into the house, so I feel good about it.
Of course, I haven’t slept since Tuesday night very well, so I am not the easiest person to be with. But I’m getting there.
And with my knees, I’ve eased some pressure on them by using the wheelchair service.
