OVERDOSE

So, last night I met Tommie at 5:20 for a matinee showing of TRANSFORMERS. It was fantastic! We got out at about 8:30 and after stopping by the grocery store on the way home, made it back around 9.

Much to our dismay, we walked in and found yellow powder strewn about our living room...Well, it turns out Tommie had accidentally left the door to our bedroom open while we were gone. Maple found her way into Tommie's suitcase, where he had some of the vitamins pictured to the right. By the looks of the yellow powder everywhere Maple had eaten about 4-5 of the capsules. Whether or not she actually ate the stuff inside...it was looking more like she had only eaten the capsule part based on the powder EVERYWHERE.

Since they were vitamins we didn't think it would do much harm, but we kept our eyes on her as we finally went to bed that night. When we woke up however, Maple was still in bed! That is VERY unusual. She's usually up at the crack of dawn, shaking her tail and trying to hop in bed with us. When Tommie took her out of bed and tried to get her to walk to him, she wouldn't even move her back legs! It looked as if she might be temporarily or partially paralyzed! We were so worried!

We called the vet and were able to get in at about 9am this morning. We spent whole time leading up to the vet we tried to get her to walk, but she just shook a little and looked more and more nervous/scared while she sat with her back legs limp looking. But we finally got her into the vet. They asked us to please place her on their scale to be weighed...so we put her down saying, "well, at least she won't run off of the scale this time like she normally does..." NOPE! In a display of great hatred for the vet, she SPRINTED across the room! Nothing else could get her to move, but she was scared of the vet! So, it's good that she could walk, but geez, what a faker! So, then she got examined while Tommie and I kept trying to explain that she really seemed unable to walk earlier that morning.

It turns out, as you may have guessed, the vitamins really weren't that much of a problem. The vet said they probably weren't great for her, but she'd be fine. It was the casings around the powder that were causing the issue in the vet's opinion. They were building up in her stomach. He said, "she probably has the craps." That's right, our dog wouldn't walk because she likely has diahrrea and her tummy hurt too badly to walk! Our poor little, drama queen puppy. So the vet gave her a quick shot to calm her tummy and told us to watch her to cause she likely "had the craps."

So folks, that's why I was an hour late for work this morning. My doggy had stomach issues because she had an overdose. And now you have had just a small peek into a day in the life of the Bozich family.