Aluminum Foil = Induced Vomming

Here's what happened on Sunday.

Tom, Lil and I were down at the family cottage for the last weekend of the year but I was coming back around noon Sunday. We packed up the car with all my and Lily's stuff from the weekend and headed home.

It's about an hour drive to get home and about 20 min in, I realize Lil is chewing on a chunk of tin foil.

Fuck.

I'm on the highway so I can't just slam on my brakes and pull over, and even if I could, Lil would fly into the dashboard and probably break her face. So I try to get her to trade me for some curly fries I had in a unused plastic poop bag (just pretend that's normal) but when she saw the fries, she decided she should swallow the foil so she could eat the fries.

Extra fuck.

So I call Tom and ask him what I should do. It wasn't a big piece, and Lil's eaten (and passed) worse so I tried to stay calm. Tom looked up some shit on google and I called the vet and we came to the conclusion that I would have to get hydrogen peroxide and force feed it to Lil to induce vomiting.

Also, I had an hour to do this from the time she swallowed the foil.

I stopped at the next exit's pharmacy, got some hydrogen peroxide and drove the 40 minutes home. Then I get back to the apartment and I'm like how the absolute fuck am I gonna get Lil to drink 5 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide? Also, too much is toxic so I'm basically poisoning my dog a little.

I MacGruber-ed a water bottle into a squirt bottle by stabbing the cap with a knife, then cut myself on the safety foil while trying to open the hydrogen peroxide, and then backed Lil into a corner, put on leg on either side of her and basically had to shove the bottle in her mouth and squeeze.

She was not happy.

She ran away and instantly started gagging. It was SO incredibly hard to watch her look so sick and helpless especially when she was acting completely fine before I had to give her that horrible stuff.

And then she vommed.

And as I was cleaning it, she vommed again. And again. And Again.

And then she vommed again and the chunk of foil came with it.

The relief was so complete, I can't even describe it. Never would I ever have thought I'd be so excited about looking through dog vomit. I still felt so bad tho. She proceeded to sleep the entire rest of the day. She only woke up when Tom came home so she could say hi and cuddle with him.

I couldn't imagine what I would do if something had gone wrong. I felt like a horrible dog mom for letting her get to the foil. I felt like a horrible dog mom giving her something that made her sick, even though I had to so she wouldn't have bigger issues.

Being a dog mom is really hard. Lil's ok. I'm mostly is ok. Gah.

We had a "thank god you don't need surgery and we had enough resolve to clean up the vom" snuggle party.

Back to normal.

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2. When and why did you start blogging?
A year ago I was in a rock climbing accident and I broke my ankle and leg. With all my down time I was able to really focus on writing and growing my blog. It went from a hobby to an obsession pretty quickly. 
 
3. What is your favorite post you've written and why?
On a serious note, this one about "The Importance Of being There" in which I talk about dealing with my sisters and then Dad's cancer, it's not sad, it's just so important to show people that you care about them. In good times and in bad. And then on a fun note, "If Boys Were Bloggers" becuase lord knows this is a woman's game. 
 
4. You're pretty much blog famous. What is the best part about having a "big blog" and what's the biggest thing that helped you get there?
HAHAAHAHAHAHA! Now I feel cool. Can I stick that in my back pocket for a rainy day? too late, just did. I really don't think it's BIG but if you say so. The best thing I did was comment. I wrote a post about that as well. Like I said, I fell rock climbing so I had a lot of time on my hands and I used it to reach out to other bloggers by interacting with them and the main way to do that is to read a comment. And one where you can actually tell you've read the post, not something like "Cool." No.

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