just concussion things
Sep. 26th, 2023 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sasha_featherThis morning I accidentally put my own pills into the dog's food bowl instead of her pills. I only noticed because she ate around 2 of them and i looked down and saw them / recognized they were wrong.
So, I did a little internet searching and learned that pills she ate were probably not dangerous. They said you can give your dog activated charcoal just to be safe, and you can buy that at the "human pharmacy" (as opposed to the vet pharmacy but this is such a funny phrase). Activated charcoal will safely bind to the medications and prevent them from being digested.
So I drove to the nearest pharmacy, which is Walgreen's, and I hate going there, but it's 5 minutes away so I end up going there sometimes anyways. Walgreen's is over-stimulation central, incredibly bright lights, busy, always have to wait in a line, products are locked up in a hostile way, impossible to find stuff, and the employees are clearly underpaid and under-trained. Also hardly anyone wearing a mask, but that is par for the course right now in curséd America. I asked 4 different people to help me find activated charcoal, and I was getting more and more upset each time.
Even when I explained what happened, my dog accidentally ate some pills and I am stressed about it, there was no expression of sympathy or understanding from any of these people. Finally someone had to "call into management" and she told me that no, they don't stock it. Walgreen's has shelves and shelves of cheap plastic seasonal crap, a whole wall of supplements and vitamins, another whole aisle that is just greeting cards. No activated charcoal. The worker told me that I'd have to go to Wal-Mart or Farm and Fleet, which are giant big-box stores. Meanwhile I'm hunched over and starting to panic from having to talk to all these strangers, and none of them helping me. I quickly left the store.
Well, I was going to Jesse's house anyways, and when I arrived she was like, "I have activated charcoal!"
SAVED!!
So, I did a little internet searching and learned that pills she ate were probably not dangerous. They said you can give your dog activated charcoal just to be safe, and you can buy that at the "human pharmacy" (as opposed to the vet pharmacy but this is such a funny phrase). Activated charcoal will safely bind to the medications and prevent them from being digested.
So I drove to the nearest pharmacy, which is Walgreen's, and I hate going there, but it's 5 minutes away so I end up going there sometimes anyways. Walgreen's is over-stimulation central, incredibly bright lights, busy, always have to wait in a line, products are locked up in a hostile way, impossible to find stuff, and the employees are clearly underpaid and under-trained. Also hardly anyone wearing a mask, but that is par for the course right now in curséd America. I asked 4 different people to help me find activated charcoal, and I was getting more and more upset each time.
Even when I explained what happened, my dog accidentally ate some pills and I am stressed about it, there was no expression of sympathy or understanding from any of these people. Finally someone had to "call into management" and she told me that no, they don't stock it. Walgreen's has shelves and shelves of cheap plastic seasonal crap, a whole wall of supplements and vitamins, another whole aisle that is just greeting cards. No activated charcoal. The worker told me that I'd have to go to Wal-Mart or Farm and Fleet, which are giant big-box stores. Meanwhile I'm hunched over and starting to panic from having to talk to all these strangers, and none of them helping me. I quickly left the store.
Well, I was going to Jesse's house anyways, and when I arrived she was like, "I have activated charcoal!"
SAVED!!
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Date: 2023-09-27 06:54 am (UTC)I am glad your dog is all right despite Walgreens!
*hugs*
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Date: 2023-09-27 11:44 am (UTC)I hope all is well with Abbie.
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Date: 2023-09-27 01:32 pm (UTC)Happy to be able to help
Date: 2023-09-27 03:45 pm (UTC)...friends don't let friends go to stores that start with W unless it's unavoidable.
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Date: 2023-09-27 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-27 07:17 pm (UTC)I go to the vet so much that I often end up referring to the doctor as the "human vet" so "human pharmacy" makes sense to me.
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Date: 2023-09-27 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-29 04:36 am (UTC)i’m not exactly sure what i thought active charcoal did when humans took it for drug-related reasons, but it wasn’t that, and that’s pretty cool scientifically. every time my dad handles any medication he’s an anxious wreck thinking he’s going going to drop one and a cat is going to eat it. maybe i should just stock some activated charcoal in case anything ever did happen. might at least help him feel better?
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Date: 2023-09-29 03:09 pm (UTC)