Sunday, February 19, 2012

Hydrogen Peroxide, a bobby pin, and eye drops

I married a doctor!! Well really I married a business major, but he might as well be a doctor. Let me explain; Saturday night 10:00pm. Brad has his head stuck in the ceiling (he literally had his head stuck in the ceiling)













He was doing some handy work around the house and got his head stuck. I of course just had to photograph that moment. Anyway, Brad is stuck and I'm in the living room watching a show. All of a sudden I hear "oh sh**" from Brad, I didn't pay much attention until he says, "we might want to take our dog to the vet" then I come running into the kitchen to find out what happened. He is holding a blue block of something that I thought was a foot pumice. Apparently everyone but me knows that the blue block was rat poison. We have NO idea where that came from. We have lived in our house for over a year and neither one of us had seen it before. I guess Brad caught Zeus with it! I of course started to panic, so we grab our pup and jump in the car and head to a family friend who used to be a vet. He and Brad looked over the block and determined that Zeus ate the tiniest amount if he even ate any at all, but thought it would be best to make him throw it up. So they gave him some hydrogen peroxide and we waited for him to puke...and we waited...and waited. I'm sure we only waited about 7 minutes, but it felt like a lifetime! They sent us home and told us to try again.









We sped to the grocery store and got some more hydrogen peroxide and tried to find a syringe because as you can imagine, our dog would not willingly drink that stuff. Well the grocery store didn't have a syringe so Brad found eye drops. he squirted out all the eye drops and used my bobby pin to make the opening bigger and there in the parking lot of Rite aid he sat on the ground, held open Zeus's mouth (keep in mind that our dog is yelping and whining so loud, people probably thought we were beating him) and squirted hydrogen peroxide down his throat. I was so proud of my husband! He literally saved our dog's life! I was completely useless...I was just a mess of tears. We got in the car and I held Zeus and we just waited for him to throw up. We had an empty container in the back of our car so I held that in front of his mouth and hoped he would aim his throw up into it. Lucky for me he did! :) He threw up and he was completely fine after that. He was jumping around and eating like nothing ever happened. It was quite a way to end our saturday night.
*if this ever happens to anyone else, apparently the antidote for rat poison is vitamin k

2 comments:

  1. Oh my! Glad everything's okay, that Tuna got his head out of the ceiling and that Zeus is all better.

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  2. I remember learning that little gem about Vitamin K being the antidote for rat poisoning! It's one of those useless tidbits that I'll never need to know in my life. Too bad you guys didn't have any of that on hand--sounds like it would have been a lot easier than the peroxide! Glad he is okay :)

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