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so Gucci ingested about 300mg of Ibuprofen yesterday. It was remnants of a 600 mg pill that had been cut in half. I didn’t think too much of it. I know ibuprofen is toxic for dogs, but I thought: OK, well one time might be a “get out of jail free” card? No, I was wrong. By about the 7th hour, he was not interested in eating his cheeseburger patties that he gets on Sundays. About a half hour after that I realized he was “trembling” while he was laying curled up in his blanket and I thought to myself, it’s not cold? Why is he shaking? Well if you ask Dr. Google ibuprofen can cause neurological damage seizures, etc. While I’m on my phone with Dr. Google, he threw up twice. It wasn’t a lot of vomit, and the substance was almost just saliva, but there was traces of blood in those little spots of throw up. Of course now it’s 10:30 at night, I called the emergency vet and the animal poison hotline and took him in. Didn’t get home till about 3 o’clock in the morning. He has the beginning of an ulcer already, that fast from one incident. Yes an emergency vet visit is pricey, but I would have ended up in the loony bin if I woke up to something catastrophic this morning, dare I even say it out loud, you know what I’m getting at. They did bloodwork to check all his organ functions gave him fluids, nausea medication and he was sent home with an ulcer medication that he has to take for 10 days and antacid tablets to help soothe his tummy and help him be able to eat. They said the trembling was probably because he was nauseated and was going to be vomiting soon. They aren’t really concerned for neurological damage and they said he did not have a seizure. I called in sick to work and we’ve just been sleeping getting his rest. I am beside myself. When they took him back, I was shaking, watching his little face as they took him from me at the vet broke my heart. I tear up thinking about it. I just kept telling him, “I’m so sorry” and “this is mom‘s fault”. Smfh. All his organs are functioning normally as of now but we will get blood work done again obviously because it will take a while for any damage to occur to his organs, if there is damage. He sees the Vet again in 14 days. Monitoring his hydration for now and any other odd behavior, of course. Mind you none of this was an immediate onset. My mom was saying, but it’s been 12 hours? It’s still in his system like that? The thing is, they can’t process it so yeah it’s sitting in his system just wreaking havoc. And it was too late to do the charcoal because it had been so many hours. Also I wanna add, I wasn’t putting two and two together.. I think because so many hours had gone by, when he didn’t want to eat his cheeseburger, I just thought it was because he was depressed because he’s always gets sad when we leave my mom‘s house on Sundays. I wasn’t putting everything together, when the trembling and the vomiting happened it dawned on me: IBURPROFEN.

Gucci loves his mama but let me tell you when he’s around my brother and my nephew? Mom is chopped liver. Maybe it’s because he gets hand fed strawberries for breakfast, I don’t know, but I love it either way.