My Benni in critical condition, need prayers
 

Early this moring, my eldest daughter who is living with me,(supposedly temporary for three months, it has been 19) wakes me up at 3:00 am . She tells me that Bengie my slightly older (1 year old) is throwing up. I spent the night cleaning up and taking care of him. I called first thing this morning and made an appointment with the vet and called in to work, I was having some car problems anyhow. By 11:30 Benni was vomiting continuously and now it was showing blood. As I was getting ready to take him to emergency, my daughter tells me that when she got home early this morning that he and Garrett had gotten ahold of her ibuprofen (Sp) and tore open the bottle, but she did not feel that they had ingested any. I rushed him to the hospital. Benni is in critical condition, they don't know how much, if any that he has ingested, or if he has ingested a piece of the container. Apparently, plastic does not show up on xrays. They are running tests, have him on ivs and catheter and will be measuring the gas in his intestinal tract to see if he ingested the container. Because of the delay in getting medical attention, if he ingested a lot, his organs could shut down. Please pray for my boy. This is breaking my heart, and I cannot even look at my own daughter.

Benni
 

I am so sorry to hear about Benni. I do hope and pray all will be well by morning and he will come home. Please keep us informed..best wishes

Luigi and I will be praying for Bennie.
Lots of puppy love and Kisses for him!

For sure Benni will be in my list of little angels in need of help. I am so sorry that you have to go throug this...please keep us posted...

Luigi,
I am so sorry this has happened to you. I will be praying for you all. Kids sure can be a pain sometimes.

Oh no! How terrible. :( Please keep us posted on Benni's progress. We will be thinking of you.

Prayers are aloft for all of you.....so sad.....but I'm thinking positive thoughts for your little one.

My kid
 

My daughter is 39 yeas old she should know better, sorry I am just so angry that she waited to tell me, this may cost Benni his life.

My Prayers are with Benni and your family. I hope that he gets better.

I am so sorry
 

so sad, our prayers are with you and benni......please keep us posted!
Kimberly

Milliecorrales, First please know that you and your furbaby are in my prayers and thoughts. I'm sorry for your pain, and all you can do right now is to believe in miracles and hope and know that your love for him will be a lot in what helps to pull him through this. He knows how much he is loved and he will fight to stay with you through this.
But I want to tell you something about the last sentence in your post. My second son is now 26 years old. A half of his lifetime ago, at age 13 my oldest son obtained a gun, a 44magnum loaded with hollow points from friends who had stolen it out of an unlocked truck.
Being kids, and teenagers at that, while I was at work they were playing with this gun, unknown to me that it even existed and my oldest son pointed it at my second son, his brother and told him, "if he moved again he'd pop a cap in his azz." My second son moved and my oldest son shot him. This all happened from what I understand in a matter of seconds. The bullet hit my son in the upper left shoulder in the back, went up through his neck missing his spine by 1/8 of an inch entered his head, blowing out the whole back of his head and neck and then exited his right ear. He lost half the blood in his body within minutes of the shooting and crawled to the front porch when he came to, trying to get help. My oldest son sat on the couch with the gun still in his hand in a state of shock. You see, they emptied the cylinder, but the gun was notorious for holding a bullet in the chamber. He honestly thought the gun was unloaded when he pulled the trigger.
When I got the call on the job, (welder in an oil refinery) I raced to the hospital, and got there just before they took my son into the first surgery. They let me in to see him, but since he didn't know how badly he was hurt they said I couldn't show any emotion since he could crash at any minute. I went into the room, and my heart broke. I didn't recognize my son, his face was swollen to twice the size, blood was dripping off the bed and from the packing that his head was laying on, but he was conscious and he was crying and begging me not to let him die. Well I started crying, and of course he crashed almost immediately and rushed him into the first of many surgeries that would put him back together again. When they took him into surgery my oldest son was standing there by the elevators in the hospital, with is arms folded across his chest in open definance because he knew me well enough to know I was going to lash out at him, and scream at him that it was all his fault, and I couldn't even stand the sight of him while my other son was possibly dying.
But for the first time in my life I knew what love was, and I put my arms around my oldest son and I whispered in his ear whether Stephen lived or died I still loved him, and my oldest son broke down and cried like a baby. I think God touched my heart and gave me the chance to save 2 of my sons that night. One from a bullet and the other from the anger and self beating that was raging inside of him. I finally knew what love was. And it took that night and those events to teach it to me. But what I learned was love is unconditional and ever forgiving. My son lived and has no physical impairment whatsoever from this shooting, nada, nothing only a scar and a horrendous scar to be truthful about it. My oldest son since lives with the guilt and memory of pulling that trigger. He will probably live with that the rest of his life. Sometimes, still to this day they talk about it between themselves. I don't interfer, this is something that they share as siblings, and it is personal and between only them.
Remember, she is your baby too, just a little bigger, and certainly a lot more careless than your furbaby is. I hope that you can appreciate that I told you this story, and it is a story I seldom tell since the memories of it are still as new to me as if it happened only yesterday, so that you will understand that she is as important, even in your anger, or fear for your furchild as he is right now. Hugs to you in your saddness.

We are so sorry
 

Our family sends you our sincerest thought and prayers. Pill bottles are so enticing to these little guys.....our male yorkie "Max" had something in his mouth as he left our bathroom.....I did a quick "sweep and search" of his mouth and found one of my thyroid pills in his mouth.....It would have killed him....I dropped it on the carpet and did not hear it fall....we have to be so careful with these tiny ones......

I know your heart is broken and mine hurts for you too.


Max and Maggie's mom

Benni and your family will be in our prayers as well. Please keep us posted on his progress.

We'll be thinking of Benni and wishing him well. Hope he makes it through okay.

Sending good thought and prayers to Benni and you............Cindy

Benni is in our prayers.

Laura....I TRULY appreciated your story. Isn't it amazing how God can heal our hearts and give us the capacity to forgive when we think we can't?

Thanks for the story. :)

Yes it is Ringo. When I turned around to him, I was filled with so much anger that I swear to you I wanted to beat him with my fists and scream at him till he was deaf. But in that split second, my heart changed, and I know it wasn't me, I didn't have that much compassion in me, so it had to be my higher power, which in my case is God. I wanted to share that story about my past even though to this day it's hard to re tell because you never forget that tragedy, the sight, smells, sounds, people, words that were said etc. It's probably one of the most vivid memories of my life,but I thought that Millicorrales needed to hear the same words I said even though my situation involved my child, and her's her furkid. I guess I just wanted her to forgive, no matter what the outcome before it was too late to fix it, like it could have been for me. I don't know. Maybe in her grief she couldn't see the similiar situation. I hope her the best today.

Sending hope and prayer your way. I am sure your daughter feels terrible, and yes she should have told you as soon as she suspected the ingestion of the ibuprophen, minutes are precious with toxicity but perhaps she was terrified to tell you knowing how much you love your furbaby. Hopefully the plastic is the culprit of most of the problem.

My husband takes advil every day for a back problem and we used to keep it on the coffee table until I learned about its great toxicity to dogs. The coating on the pills are very enticing to dogs. We keep it locked away in the medicine cabinet. Many folks have NO idea about how bad it is for our babies.

Please be hopeful, some babies to pull thru with this if the antidote and charcoal are given in time.

Please keep us updated and gracie sends puppy kisses to you................

Sending hugs and puppy licks to Benni for a full recovery, and hugs to Mom AND Daughter...

Laura, amazing story. Thanks for sharing that. I think we all can learn a valuable lesson in your actions.

Prayers for you and Benni
 

I am so sorry for what you are going through. I am definately sending prayers and well wishes to you, Benni, and your daughter. We don't always understand, but please remember God has a reason for everything that happens, even the bad things. I pray for Benni will recover from this tragic accident.

The vet called this morning, and Benni has stabilized. He is on a host of meds, and they ruled out him ingesting any of the container. However he is still vomiting, no more blood at least. They are going to offer food late this afternoon, and if he keeps it down, they will let him go twenty fours after. We still have to be concerned about possible kidney and liver damage, but the vet says we may have got him there early enough to minimize it. Thanks for all your prayers and good thoughts, keep them coming as he is not out of the woods yet.

That is such good newsssss!!! I will keep on praying for a full recovery and that soon he is with you!!

Thanks so much for sharing the update with us. I know so many have been watching your thread, praying, and hoping for a postive outcome. The news isn't perfect yet, but it's certainly headed in that direction. Before you know it, Benni will be back home with you and your daughter will be in time out!!!! LOL I'm so happy for you that things are looking up :rolleyes:

That is such good news. :) We will continue to keep you in our thoughts.

Amazing story Lauri! What a horrible thing to happen, and what a miracle your boy lived and another miracle he is fine. God looked down upon you that day. You handles it way better than I probably would have. Wonderful!
As to Benni, I am horrified! I can't imigine the stress you are under right now. Prayers are with both of you and be sure and let us know how it goes! Pat

Great news on Benni's progress! Hoping it continues to even get better and know that he is still in our thoughts.

Thank you for the update. :)

I'm so glad to hear he is doing better. I'll say a little prayer for him. Have you talked with your daughter yet....I'm sure she is feeling so much guilt.

(Laura, thank you for sharing your story. It gave me tears. God is so good and really does give us what we need in every situation.)


Bitsy

Milliecorrales -

We're praying for you and poor benni! Keep us posted!

Julie & Mia

My thoughts and prayers are with you....I truly hope all goes well.

Just a little tidbit, yesterday when I got home, my husband nearly killed me. It turns out my little girl found a q-tip I threw in the wastebasket in the morning. I guess I must have missed the wastebasket and it was on the floor. My husband gets home earlier than me and was playing with our little girl, next thing you know, she was gasping. It turns out the q-tip got stuck or when down her little throat. My husband was in near tears because he thought it was the end for her, but he quickly reached in her little mouth and pulled it out. His next step was the vet, but she was really happy the whole night and this morning. So hopefully she's not traumatized as much as we were. My poor baby!!!

Once again we will be saying a little prayer for benni to get better.