Not a good day
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:58 pm
I got up at 3am like I usually do to get ready for work, not a thing I like to do, but it pays the bills. I let all the dogs, 10, outside to do their morning business. Got food ready and called them over to be put up. One dog didn't come. I thought what the heck, did Hugo get out of the fence? Called him for a minute and still no Hugo. Went out and checked the fenced area in front of the house, and there is Hugo sitting, completely oblivious to me. I thought what the heck is this, picked him up and he yelped, so I brought him in the house to see if he was injured, nothing. Gave him some food, which he ate with passion, just like always, and boom down he goes and has a seizure. I thought OMG, what is going on, he got back up ran around the house confused and running into things. Called the Vet, but no emergency service until later in the morning, So I crated him up when he seemed better and went into work. I took an early meal break and came home to check on him, and he is just sitting there zoned out, covered in do-do. I called the Emergency Vet and talked to them for a while, they said he is probably still zonked out from the seizure, and I could wait and see how things went.
I waited for another few hours and was in and out of the house tending to other dogs. He was still really out of it, so I called back to the emergency Vet, and said I am bringing him in. They are 55 miles from my house in Jamestown ND, crated Hugo up and away we went. On the hour trip down he had 4 more seizures!
Heart rate was good and strong along with repiration. Temp was 102.2 Blood work shows nothing. A couple of things are slightly elevated, but nothing that would be of concern. No signs in the blood work of kidney or liver issues. After an injection of diazapine, and then before he left of Phenyl Barbitol, he is just zonked out resting.
Hugo is 5 days shy of 10 months old, so while can't absolutely rule our epilepsy, or a brain tumor, seems unlikely, especially given the sudden onset.
He is on a course of antibiotics, just to rule out an infection as his white count was slightly elevated, and I have a months supply of 32.4 phenyl barbitol tablets. Once we are sure he isn't having any more seizures we will take him off them and see if there is a reoccurence.
I waited for another few hours and was in and out of the house tending to other dogs. He was still really out of it, so I called back to the emergency Vet, and said I am bringing him in. They are 55 miles from my house in Jamestown ND, crated Hugo up and away we went. On the hour trip down he had 4 more seizures!
Heart rate was good and strong along with repiration. Temp was 102.2 Blood work shows nothing. A couple of things are slightly elevated, but nothing that would be of concern. No signs in the blood work of kidney or liver issues. After an injection of diazapine, and then before he left of Phenyl Barbitol, he is just zonked out resting.
Hugo is 5 days shy of 10 months old, so while can't absolutely rule our epilepsy, or a brain tumor, seems unlikely, especially given the sudden onset.
He is on a course of antibiotics, just to rule out an infection as his white count was slightly elevated, and I have a months supply of 32.4 phenyl barbitol tablets. Once we are sure he isn't having any more seizures we will take him off them and see if there is a reoccurence.