At 7:45 pm, on the dot last night, Kia'a once again started another one of her seizures. Since the medication to help stop them once they start was still on order, we sat down with her to wait it out ... to work through it. Our vet said that unless she wasn't coming out of a seizure, to just stay with her at home and notifiy them in the morning. It was agony.
The main part of it lasted about 40 minutes and then it took her about a hour to start coming around. We just held her with us on the bed the whole time. And, for the first time ever last night, she slept on the bed with us, curled up in the crook of my arm. Scared, confussed and exhausted. Steve and I were up all night; we emotionally and physically exhausted as well. One thing we have now noted, out of the 4 seizures we have know her to have, all of them have happened at about the same time (between 7:35 pm and 7:50 pm). Maybe there is something to that?
Called the vet this morning ... reported her seizure. She asked us to bring her in. More labs. More test, she is there for the day and possibly night.
When we got there, however, some good news. The bile acid test came back negative. No problems there, and it looks like we can positively rule out a liver shunt. But that does open a much bigger door ... and neurological one that will take us out of our normal vets hands and into the specialists.
Just filled a perscriprtion for phenobarbital. They want to start her on that until I can get into the neuro-clinic (which is not until next Friday
). Not sure how I am feeling. A little numb ... after over a week and a half of gripping fear and worry. Maybe the news about the shunt has softened some of the pain, or the fact that we took her through a seizure last night and we all came out ok (for the most part). She didn't die in my arms and I had been so worried that she would.
Again, she awoke this morning mostly her old self (even ate a little) and the only noticable problem was the slow reaction to no reaction on the basic commands: sit, down, stay, come ... etc. Like I said before, we are letting manners slide a little today.
Question - have any of your babies been on phenobarbital? What are the side effects? What should I watch for or expect? Are there any long term concerns that I need to be aware of?
Again, your support means so much to me. It has been the only confort I have foudn these past few days and I think that I might have gone crazy without it.
The main part of it lasted about 40 minutes and then it took her about a hour to start coming around. We just held her with us on the bed the whole time. And, for the first time ever last night, she slept on the bed with us, curled up in the crook of my arm. Scared, confussed and exhausted. Steve and I were up all night; we emotionally and physically exhausted as well. One thing we have now noted, out of the 4 seizures we have know her to have, all of them have happened at about the same time (between 7:35 pm and 7:50 pm). Maybe there is something to that?
Called the vet this morning ... reported her seizure. She asked us to bring her in. More labs. More test, she is there for the day and possibly night.
When we got there, however, some good news. The bile acid test came back negative. No problems there, and it looks like we can positively rule out a liver shunt. But that does open a much bigger door ... and neurological one that will take us out of our normal vets hands and into the specialists.
Just filled a perscriprtion for phenobarbital. They want to start her on that until I can get into the neuro-clinic (which is not until next Friday
). Not sure how I am feeling. A little numb ... after over a week and a half of gripping fear and worry. Maybe the news about the shunt has softened some of the pain, or the fact that we took her through a seizure last night and we all came out ok (for the most part). She didn't die in my arms and I had been so worried that she would. Again, she awoke this morning mostly her old self (even ate a little) and the only noticable problem was the slow reaction to no reaction on the basic commands: sit, down, stay, come ... etc. Like I said before, we are letting manners slide a little today.
Question - have any of your babies been on phenobarbital? What are the side effects? What should I watch for or expect? Are there any long term concerns that I need to be aware of?
Again, your support means so much to me. It has been the only confort I have foudn these past few days and I think that I might have gone crazy without it.
