Carrie
11/9/2009 2:42:00 PM
ellie wrote:
> On Nov 8, 7:56 pm, "Carrie" <starchild1...@charter.net> wrote:
>> ellie wrote:
>>> On Nov 8, 3:00 pm, "Carrie" <starchild1...@charter.net> wrote:
>>>> Mike wrote:
>>>>> So, this place finally died.
>>
>>>> I just clicked on it to see what was going on. I figured so many
>>>> had said I had driven people away, and I should leave, it would be
>>>> jumping, without me posting here.
>>>> Every now and then I have looked at it, but didn't seem like much
>>>> of anything going on for discussion.
>>>> Where is all the active and interesting course discussion some were
>>>> blamed for preventing?
>>
>>> Good to see all my friends have been p-osting today after a long
>>> absence. :)
>>
>> Maybe a vacation is good at some point. New perspective, new start,
>> and all.
>> I have been busy, I don't know where summer went, or even if we had
>> one.
>> I think it was mainly cold and rainy, which is okay with me, I don't
>> like hot and humid.
>> Had someone living here again (I keep saying "never again", it's
>> people with problems who are usually the ones in need of a home.
>> This one wasn't too bad, though and stayed out of my way most of the
>> time (LOL)
>> High point newswise was my Golden Retriever Izzy swallowed a sewing
>> needle... I had taken in a puppy, someone who couldn't keep her
>> (ended up finding her a good home, and now have another dog someone
>> moving into an apartment couldn't take). I blame it on the puppy of
>> course. I was mending something and left my sewing basket on the
>> table beside the bed. The puppy had a chewed up spool of thread,
>> there was chewed up spool in the bed and the needle that had been
>> stuck in the side of the spool was missing. I kept thinking it must
>> be here I'm just not seeing it.
>> But, Izzy was coughing and gagging and I could feel it in the back
>> of her throat (sideways) but it was too slippery to pull out (think
>> wiggly dog, and slimey tongue) Got her to the vet, X rays showed
>> there was a needle, by then it was down near her stomach. If it was
>> too far, she'd have to go to Burlington for surgery. But, the local
>> vet anestitized her and managed to get it out (with something, I
>> wasn't there. Long tool to get things out of animal's stomachs?).
>> Kept her overnight to make sure her throat was okay. And next day
>> she was fine. $174, which wasn't bad compared to what I'd thought,
>> taking her to Burlington (100 or so miles away) for surgery. They
>> even charged 75 cents for disposal of the needle.
>> Just when you think your kids are grown up and on their own, there's
>> pets.
>> Actually, when looking it up online (waiting to find out if my vet
>> could get it) I found out the thread would have been worse. Had she
>> eating THAT it does something like tangles up in their intestines.
>> That's why they kept saying "are you sure she didn't eat any of the
>> thread?"
>> I usually keep the sewing box up, mainly because I don't want them
>> ruining the thread (the cats would love to play with it) but didn't
>> realize how dangerous (and expensive) it could be.
>> I just had on the Animal Planet channel, they were showing weird
>> things that animals swallow. One dog swallowed a knife, another one
>> a 2' plastic mop handle. A python that was loose in FL swallowed a
>> cat (the cat didn't survive)
>> Another one ate 4 golf balls, thinknig they were eggs. (these were
>> surgically removed)
>> Yikes....
>
> $174 to remove a neddle from the stomach? If only humans hadn't lost
> their tails they could save thousands of dollars by just going to the
> vet!
I know, but animals don't have inisurance, Medicaid, etc. to help.
If the needle had gone too far down, she'd have had to go to Burlington
(big city) for surgery. Well, the laposcope or whatever they use. None of
the local vets here have them or do that. But, on the other hand, they are
probably good at working without one. Since it had only gotten to the bottom
of her throat, and not into her stomach, he was able to get it out. My first
thought when I heard he was going to try was a picture of a bent open coat
hanger, like you use to reach things with (LOL) Of course, it was more than
that, h probably has long thin forcepts of some kind. They sedated her
first, too.
I probably would have freaked out at $174 if I hadn't been imaginin what
it would cost to take her to Burlington for surgery, before that.
My daughter's dog had kidney stones and the treatement and later removal
of them added up to $1300. And vets insist on being paid, at the time.
Now I think of all this when I do something, before leaving a sewing
basket with thread, and a needle stuck in the side (I was going to come back
to what I was doing) within reach of dogs.
Of course I think it was all the puppy's fault (the puppy I had at the
time (LOL)