A few days back Margarit was cooking dinner. She made a dish with chicken, potatoes and vegetables in a cream sauce. While preparing dinner she dropped a bag of baby potatoes on the floor. She thought she had picked them all up, but it turned out later, that she had not.
The whole family had dinner and everything was fine. There was even a little left over to share with Hank. The next day, Hank was quite sick, and was continually throwing up. We knew it was nothing to do with the food, as everyone else was fine.
On the second day, Hank was still throwing up everything that he ate... even water. Margarit was very concerned and took him to the vet. Good thing she did....!!
The vet took a stomach X-Ray. Initially they found a lump in his stomach, and thought that it might be cancer. But then they did a second X-Ray, with barium, and discovered that it was a foreign object in his stomach. He was booked in for immediate emergency surgery. It turns out that he swallowed one of the raw baby potatoes that Margarit had dropped on the floor.
So, after a large vet bill, Hank is fine. He just needs some time to recover. In the short term, this cancelled Margarit's plans to join me out in Nordegg. But other than making sure that Hank doesn't get too active and rip open his incision, he will be fine.
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