OK...OK...I know that y'all are sick of the "Ginger survives yet again" stories, but guess what? I've got another one! On Thursday night I picked up a bag of trash that was in our driveway. Since it was dark outside and we don't have a good light to entice me to take the trash all the way to the back, I decided to bring it in the house to throw away. I put it in a garbage bag and set it on the counter to take out in the morning. I never checked to see what was inside, it was a take-out kind of a bag. Well...early in the morning I found two dogs amidst a ripped open bag of garbage with all the signs of buffalo wings around them. It was buffalo wings in that blasted bag!! Two theories on how they got it off the counter-Ginger grew wings and flew or the dummy cats knocked it off! Kiwi and Ginger had eaten some leftover wings! Yuck! Kiwi is sticky and a little bloated, Ginger is super sticky and super bloated. Uh-oh... I read online about dogs vs. chicken bones and read that they stand a good chance of passing them, but to monitor them for 8-12 hours and check the poop for signs of bones. Kiwi pooped bones, but Ginger didn't. By 5pm she was in major distress and had a seizure so off to Dr. B's we go. He says he wants to try the "Metamucil trick" overnight and bring her back in the morning. (Listen up all you pet owners...this trick is way cool!) Mix about 1/3 cup Metamucil with about 3-4 tablespoons hot water to form a glob. Mix in some wet cat food and feed this to your pet. Make sure that you feed them about the same amount of mix that you would normally feed in food. Then you wait. The glob will work through the body picking up "debris" along the way and actually encapsulating it in the glob as it goes. It is kind of amazing when it comes out. I will not go into gory detail, but I was amazed. It worked like magic on Kiwi. On Ginger, it made her really uncomfortable, so I realized she must be blocked. Back to Dr. B in the morning. X-rays confirm that yep, she is blocked. See, she has this scar tissue in her stomach from an old surgery that caused a bit of blockage so the wings and now Metamucil globs couldn't make it out. Into surgery little Ginger goes. I get a call from Dr. B after it was done and not only does he say she is doing fine, but he is amazed at all the stuff he pulled from her stomach. So amazed, in fact, that he saved it for us in a Ziploc to check out when we picked her up! (Attention P365'ers-that bag was my POTD on Saturday!!) She is home now from her ordeal, but she is still having seizures. I had to tape a note to the closed vet's office for Jesse, the vet tech, to call me when he was checking on the "overnight" animals to see if he would refill her Valium to last the rest of the weekend. Other than seizures, she is doing well. Sadly, I cannot say the same for poor Kayla. She is super bored and wants to go swimming and I don't feel right about leaving Ginger alone just yet. Oh, well...I just finished Twilight, I think I'll go get Kayla to start reading it, maybe that'll help.
As Stacey said, "I guess 'Old Ironsides' made it through another one! So true!
