Brownies

Last night was seriously one of the most bizarre shifts I have ever had. One thing after another kept coming. However, one of the weirdest events of my career in the ER occurred at 0230. I was out in triage after a truly bizarre night. Unexpected visit, crazy trauma lady, and getting slaughtered was just the beginning apparently. A guy walks into the ER asking for a nurse or a doctor. I hang back for a second because he looked anxious and paranoid. He repeated a few times that his dog had ingested a bunch of chocolate brownies and was now acting funny.  He said he wanted someone to come out and look at him. After the night I wasn't going outside by myself with this guy who was obviously hysterical. He asked everyone he saw if they would come out and look. I repeatedly told him we treat people not dogs. They just aren't the same. He did not like that answer. He heads back outside and I start looking up hospitals for animals open 24 hours. I find a number and hand it to him once I had started to walk outside. The scene was just said. This poor dog, what looked like a type of German Shepherd, was laying on its side breathing shallow and fast. I'm an emergency room nurse, but I don't do CPR on dogs I don't know. Once he got on the phone he proceeded to tell more of the story. It was actually POT brownies and a variety of Psych pills the dog had ingested. Yeah that doesn't change things at all. By this time security had pulled up and this 4 guys--obviously high themselves--started to really loose it. The dog in the mean time had slowed its breathing down. Finally, we got the number and address of a clinic close by open 24 hours. As these guys tried to move their dog it bolted straight up and only got 2 feet before it collapsed and began looking frantically all over. I began to wonder what dogs hallucinated about. Obviously, this wasn't normal dog behavior. They struggled to pick this poor animal up and get him into the car. The owner was also hysterical at this point. As they got him into the car the poor dogs breathing had started to slow. 

I have no hope for the animal.  I almost cried because no dog should go through that. As they left I asked the question and I'm still wondering, "What do dogs hallucinate about?"