First week of August: I seemed to have developed quite a RAVENOUS appetite. I think it was the prednisone they gave me. I began jumping up on counter tops trying to get extra food. I even started barking furiously at my mom to get her to feed me more. I had been eating like a pig lately and my mom just couldn't understand. I practically bit my moms hand off when she would give me a treat! I was like a human vacuum cleaner! I was so hungry that inanimate objects started looking attractive to me. As a matter of fact I grabbed a very big hard plastic hanger clip and swallowed it within seconds....(I thought it was a biscuit). My mom had to take me to the emergency room that night to get it out. Unfortunately the "abdominal radiographs" could not see the hanger because it was made of plastic and whatever they gave me to induce vomiting didn't work either. So at about 3 am they finally told my mom that they were going to keep me over night for "observation" (quite honestly I was the one doing most of the observing.....what else was I going to do in my cage?? I don't like cages because no one ever hugs you when your in there.) So after two nights of observation they finally sent me home and told my mom to watch me closely because I would probably "pass" it. Well I passed it two days later i threw it up!! Apparently it was so big it never left my stomach. I heard the doc tell my mom later that it was too big to move through the opening of my colon. After I threw it up I had diarrhea and bloody stools for a couple of days. I left the vets with antibiotics. They didn't give me chemotherapy that week because my white blood cell count was too low. They told my mom to take my temperature on a daily basis to make sure that I did not have a fever over 102.8
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