Animals come into our lives as gifts from God, for companionship, to teach us, and to heal us. They deserve our very best efforts in caring for them.


"Love goes the extra mile and gives itself away"
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went" -- Will Rogers

Brady

Brady
our sweet ball crazy boy

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Another grand mal seizure

Unfortunately, our hopes of the May seizure being a one time break-through seizures were quickly diminished 25 days later on June 6th at 2:40am when Brady had another grand mal seizure. He recovered fairly fast and seemed like himself soon after it was over, just as he had after his seizure in May. On Monday, June 8th, I took him to the vet to check the phenobarbital level in his bloodstream. The lab results came in on Wednesday, June 10th, revealing that the phenobarbital levels were just below the therapeutic range so Dr. Slayman increased his dosage from 48.6 mg twice per day to 64.8 mg twice per day. Fingers crossed and prayers raised to Heaven that this would be the end of the seizures.

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