Ramblings from the Heart
Around the beginning of August she started acting kinda confused at times and seemed to be getting kinda clumsy, and then she had a couple mild seizures. Well, the vet put her on medication and did all kinds of tests and thought that she probably had a brain tumor. The medication seemed to work great ... she was back to her old self most of the time and there were no more seizure episodes. That was until this past Monday. She had a couple little ones during the day, and we were gonna up her medication, but then by nighttime all hell broke loose. The poor thing started having seizures around 11pm and kept it up until about 12:15am ... I think she had about 8 of them. They were AWEFUL!! ... more like what you see in cartoons. (I still have the picture of it in my head, and have had nightmares twice this week about it. Very nasty!) We finally got her stable enough to get her to the nearest emergency clinic, which was 35 frickin minutes away. The vet said she'd actually had one HUGE seizure, since there hadn't been enough recovery time between her bouts, and she was in really bad shape. He said she was blind, had suffered brain damage, and would more than likely start the cycle all over again way too soon. He agreed with the diagnosis of the other vet, she probably had a brain tumor, and there was really nothing else to do for her. I was holding her head during the examinaton, and my sweet lil exhausted puppy just fell asleep in my hands. I just couldn't bear to have her go through all that again, so I agreed to have them put her to sleep permanently. What a horrible decision to have to make, but I think I did the right thing.
I sure do miss that lil pup though...
{a sad farewell on 2004-10-24 @ 11:26 a.m.}
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