usmcsis's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- beavis well i just found out that my beavis has epilipsy. for those of you that don't know what a beavis is, he's my 3 and 1/2 year old, four legged, little brother. :) he's my mom's jack russell terrior. i woke up this morning to him having a seizure. talk about scaring the shit out of someone. i freaked. he woke me up as he was walking down the hallway, trying to get to my room. he was making this little crying noise and as soon as he saw me he just stopped trying to walk and stood there shaking from head to toe waiting for me to come to him. i threw on some clothes and called my mom to tell her something was wrong with him and that i was taking him to the doctor. even in the middle of a seizure, he was still excited about taking a R-I-D-E in the car. :) i cried all the way to the animal hospital, which luckily is only about half a mile from our house. if i had had to drive any further than that i prolly would have wrecked my car and killed us both. between him being scared and trying to crawl in my lap and me crying and trying to get him to stay in his seat and drive slow enough that he wouldn't fall but fast enough to get there it's a miracle we got there in one piece. his seizure had stopped in the examining room and he was just scared, climbing all over me and not wanting the doctor to touch him. at least he didn't bite her when she took his temperature. they drew some blood and left us in the little examining room while they started his bloodwork stuff but while we were sitting there another seizure started. so i called the nurse and she came running down the hallway. they wanted to take him back and put him in one of the little cages but when she tried to pick him up he growled and showed his teeth. i picked him up and he just whimpered and kind of went limp in my arms. so i carried him back to the cage and tried to put him in. he did not want me to leave him in that cage, he tried so hard to get out. i stayed with him while they finished his bloodwork to try to calm him down some and i finally got him to lie down at least. but he was still trembling all over. the bloodwork showed that he didn't have any kidney or liver failure which was good but that pretty much guarantees that it's epilipsy. the doctor said he was dehydrated from having the seizures so they are going to give him some iv fluids and keep him all day for observation. if he has another seizure they will give him some kind of seizure medicine. if he doesn't have another seizure then he can come home this evening and they will give us some of the medicine to have in case he has another one. once he goes on the medicine he will have to take it forever though so they don't want to start him on it until he has another one. that stupid little dog scared the life out of me this morning. i don't know what i'd do if anything happened to him. i'm his sissy (right dee-dee) and he has to be okay. 11:25 am - 07 May 2001 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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