She's been having some sort of seizures, very infrequently, for the last several months - maybe 12 months, if that long. They only happened once every three months or so, but she's had two recently - once when we had our houseful of company in mid-July, and again Friday. Both times, the seizures seemed precipitated by extra excitement in the form of lots of people and activity.
She doesn't go into a grand mal seizure, but she does act skittish, then kind of "lock up" while standing and can't move. Her respiration increases as does her heartbeat, and she trembles. This part lasts two or three minutes, and then she comes out of it. Sometimes she acts a little woozy for a couple of minutes, but not always. She does seem tired, though with her confirmed couch potato proclivities, it's hard to tell whether she's zonked because of a seizure or if she's just zonked.
She has an appointment with the vet on Thursday. He's going to do a CBC (complete blood count) to check her for epilepsy. I found many good links about canine epilepsy and know that many epileptic dogs -- such as my grandma's little terrier mutt -- live to be old dogs. Still....Ick. Poor dog. :S
She's also got some dermatological thing going on, a place on her face. This appeared a few days after the dog swim on August 28th. The bumps don't appear to be pustules and they don't seem to bother her. They don't hurt if we touch them, and she doesn't scratch them like they itch. They don't seem to be spreading, but they're not going away, either. I know they're unrelated to the seizure issue, but it's one more thing to bring up on Thursday when we take her in.
See the spot on her face? It's roundish.
P.S. I think this is THE most unflattering picture I've ever posted of my girl, LOL.
This message was edited Sep 8, 2004 1:35 AM
