Sarah Hall

Well, it seems life never stays good for long.
I picked up Hemi tonight at 7:15 and while driving home, he seizured. This wasn't the grand maul type he had been having, it was more a gerneralized seizure to his head and face, but still disturbing with all the sudden foaming at the mouth. It happened only 25 minutes since I picked him up. I immediately turned back around and, while on the way back to the vet (which turns into an Emergency Clinic after hours) he had 2 more of the same type. After his last one, however, he began a constant "tick" in the muscles of his ears and right up on top of his head. He would howl his head off, his leg would start shaking and then, boom, another seizure.
I ran into the office and was immediately taken to the back treatment area (I get special attention, I guess, since I was a vet tech).
As soon as I set him down, I heard his breathing rapidly increasing and I knew another seizure was coming. I yelled for some phenobarb and for an immediate dose of diazepam (which can stop a seizure almost instantly). I gave him his dose right into the muscle of his hind leg, and about 10 mins later you would have never known what had just happened (besides the foam bubbles on his chin and chest).
So he's back in his little doggy hospital with an IV tube (I recommended that they put a cone on him if he comes around) and the last I saw him he was just about comatose (like I had found him yesterday).
I'm not sure what I'm going to do now. A tech tipped me off that the specific vet that had "cared" for Hemi is a downright theif. He charges for things you can't disprove that he didn't do, but he doesn't treat symptoms right. With the ticking in the head that I noticed, I'm now scared to death of Distemper. If that's the case, I'll be signing Hemi's Death Certificate. If he keeps having these because he's hypoglycemic/diabetic (which the vet told me he wasn't but a tech told me he was), then I guess he'll be getting insulin the rest of his life. If it's Epilepsy (basically lay-man's terms in dogs for saying "we don't know why he's seizuring") then we'll have to see what course of treatment will work.
So, as it is right now, Hemi's life is now in the balance between quality of life and cost of treatment (as much as I hate to say it, I still have a 1 year old that I need to think of first before the puppy). Of course, if this is Distemper or something that I cannot afford to control, I'll be writing Hemi's obit very soon it seems.
I may not seem like the religious person, but I think Hemi can use all the prayers you can send his way.

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