So on Friday, I had a pretty bad scare involving my 1-year-old dog, Nyx. Xylitol poisoning. She ate an entire bottle of Excel Tropical Refreshers gum.
We found out within an hour of it happening, raced off to the vet and after that, to the emergency vet two hours away.
She stayed there until Sunday evening, when we picked her up.
Now I'm dealing with PTSD from the entire ordeal; I'm unfortunately intimately familiar with PTSD (having suffered it from single traumatic events before, while also having CPTSD regarding long-term trauma), so I know that that's what this is.
It hasn't even been 24 hours since she was released to us. She's on some medications, and is otherwise doing well. Almost her old self (one of the meds has sedative properties, so she's a lot less energetic than usual).
Now that the initial relief of her being home has settled, I find myself returning to that terrible, gut-twisting anxiety I had first with the discovery of the toxicosis, and then with her absence from our home.
I know I can't expect myself to shake it off right away, but I do need to be able to function when I go back to work tomorrow. It's as though I'm afraid to leave her, or have her leave my sight for a second.
Has anyone else gone through this? How did you work through the fear and get back to normal (or close to it)?
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