Teddy

About Me (cont.)

One day I was snooping around the basement. I smelled something unusual and went over to investigate.  I found a small package filled with something that smelled so delicious.  "WOW," I thought, "Free treats!" and I gobbled it up right away.  Little did I know that I had just devoured some deadly rat poison! 

Slowly over the next few days I started to feel really tired.  I had no energy to play with my mom or sister.  I mean, I know that I sleep a lot, but I'm not that lazy!  Finally, when I couldn't even stand up, they noticed.  Then I think they took me to the vet, but I was feeling so awful that everything was a blur. They stuck me with a lot of needles and then they couldn't get me to stop bleeding!  I was feeling pretty miserable when my mom came to take me to the . . . hospital.  

Yes my friends, you read me right!  I was headed to the hospital and little did I know that things would get a lot worse before they got better. The doctor greeted me with a heavy face and told my mom that I might die!  I have no memory of the next few days but I heard later that they had to give me a complete blood transfusion!  I almost didn't make it.

By about the fifth day I finally began to feel better.  The day after that, my mom and sister came to take me home!!!  I was ecstatic to see them. I thought that they had left me for dead!  Now I know that they would never do that in a million years!  I came home on June 5, 2006, my 1st birthday!  My life was the best birthday present I ever received! 

 I heard that they had to pay the doctors a lot of money.  I sometimes think about how many treats that could have bought me.  But I guess that my life is more important.