Daily Archives: Monday, 25 April, 2005

Poupoune has to stay another day in the veterenairy hospital because she still was vomitting so we’re going to visit her in the evening. She still has an IV and her paw is covered in a pink bandage that fits remarkably well with her tongue colour and Alison’s outfit.

She is really, really mad when we leave her again after one hour. Oh, how I wish I spoke Dog.

This is Poupoune empty dog basket, because last Friday we had to bring her to the veterinary hospital because I had poisoned her. By accident, but nevertheless.

Thursday she had three teeth pulled by the vet because they had too much decay. That evening she was in much pain so I gave her one of my painkillers (as you might well know I have chronic problems with my teeth and carry painkillers just in case, although I tend to only take them when it really gets bad). Wrong. Poupoune is a very small dog and the amount used for humans is about 12 times over the dose for a dog. So she started to be very drowsy and last night Alison went with her in a taxi (because I couldn’t drive anymore because I had already taken my drugs) to a 24 hour veterinary clinic at the other side of Montréal. They gave Poupoune some medicine to protect the stomach lining to ulcers and send them home. But Friday night she began to vomit and since there was blood in the vomit we went to the clinic again, this time by car.
They thought it was not looking good and held her so they could put Poupoune on a intravenous drip.

I was supposed to pick her up yesterday, but she started to vomit again and they held her another night. But this morning they still didn’t want to release her, because she still couldn’t keep her food down. Tonight we’re going to visit her. Hopefully she’ll be back tomorrow.