purplebumble
Warren Veteran
its been awful.....he had a fit last week or weekend...i foolishly forgot to write down date etc, Then i had one early this week.....
Then wednesday middayish he had a horrific longest fit ever. Made worse by the fact hes been wheezy again and breathing probs as usual. He was fitting on his back with his legs in the air rearing up and biting his shoulder squealing/screaming thrashing around so violently. I gave him one rectal tube of valium...the polyp removal has made it so easy to administer it to him now. BUT the one tube didnt work......he was gasping screaming and squealing it was heartbreaking to watch...i tied ringing vets about a second tube.
Eventually bertie was so bad i gave him half a tube of valium and he carried on fitting then stopped. The seizure was about 3 or 4 minutes i thought...nikki says no it was at least 5 minutes cos of the time on the tv.
the vet said no way to bring him down seizing as receptionist had suggested as the stress would kill him and even after a fit dont stress buns out going to the vets. If the seizure lasts 10 minutes then i will have to get him hospitalised to make him stable...if they can. The rest has blurred......except he did say if the fitting hadnt eased up with one tube then to give him a second.
Since he recovered from the fit and the sedation of the valium hes been his normal snuffly lovable nosey self:thumb:
so imagine my horror when i was about to go to bed at 12.45am and bertie was having a major seizure AGAIN
where hed wedged himself i couldnt get access to his bottom....i had to help his legs thrashing around to move him away a bit from the litter tray edge. I got the tube in....waited...nothing......but he began leaning trying to prop himself up but perhaps not..he was still seizing horrifically. so i let him lean up against my arm but he still didnt stop.
I was opening the packet to get the second one out and he was back peddaling with his back feet again..like he was trying to get up off a slippery floor which made me have flash backs to willows back feet doing that as we watched her dying waiting for a taxi to vets
he eventually scrabbled to his feet falling over a lot...moved across the lounge to recover under a dining room chair where hes gone past few fits. I let him recover but kept an eye on him. He lolloped out sniffing out a bit of crunchy toast and ate half the bit hed found. He turned to face me let me rub his nose softly and talk to him as he staggered back under the chair. At one point bluebell lay down under the chair next to the one he was under before lolloping back off to sleep in her litter tray. his breathing slowly returned to what it was prefit......and he fell asleep. i stayed downstairs till after 2.30am then falling asleep i went to bed to take my meds. And i fell asleep.
vibes for my big old boy AGAIN please.
sometimes i wish i could film him to show others what it looks like and to show to vets too..but its not fair to leave him to film him....and the vets know im not making his fits up. so no need.
Over a year seizure free then he has one then another then 2 major ones.......hes still got his ear infection...drops got stopped whilst he was at vets and i lost them for 24hrs then found em again but only a bit in bottle.
So i got a taxi to our local vets to pick up more phenobarb pills...canaural ear drops and 4 tubes of rectal valium..and back again..i hated leaving him alone.
all the vibes you can muster....please.
Then wednesday middayish he had a horrific longest fit ever. Made worse by the fact hes been wheezy again and breathing probs as usual. He was fitting on his back with his legs in the air rearing up and biting his shoulder squealing/screaming thrashing around so violently. I gave him one rectal tube of valium...the polyp removal has made it so easy to administer it to him now. BUT the one tube didnt work......he was gasping screaming and squealing it was heartbreaking to watch...i tied ringing vets about a second tube.
Eventually bertie was so bad i gave him half a tube of valium and he carried on fitting then stopped. The seizure was about 3 or 4 minutes i thought...nikki says no it was at least 5 minutes cos of the time on the tv.
the vet said no way to bring him down seizing as receptionist had suggested as the stress would kill him and even after a fit dont stress buns out going to the vets. If the seizure lasts 10 minutes then i will have to get him hospitalised to make him stable...if they can. The rest has blurred......except he did say if the fitting hadnt eased up with one tube then to give him a second.
Since he recovered from the fit and the sedation of the valium hes been his normal snuffly lovable nosey self:thumb:
so imagine my horror when i was about to go to bed at 12.45am and bertie was having a major seizure AGAIN
where hed wedged himself i couldnt get access to his bottom....i had to help his legs thrashing around to move him away a bit from the litter tray edge. I got the tube in....waited...nothing......but he began leaning trying to prop himself up but perhaps not..he was still seizing horrifically. so i let him lean up against my arm but he still didnt stop.
I was opening the packet to get the second one out and he was back peddaling with his back feet again..like he was trying to get up off a slippery floor which made me have flash backs to willows back feet doing that as we watched her dying waiting for a taxi to vets
he eventually scrabbled to his feet falling over a lot...moved across the lounge to recover under a dining room chair where hes gone past few fits. I let him recover but kept an eye on him. He lolloped out sniffing out a bit of crunchy toast and ate half the bit hed found. He turned to face me let me rub his nose softly and talk to him as he staggered back under the chair. At one point bluebell lay down under the chair next to the one he was under before lolloping back off to sleep in her litter tray. his breathing slowly returned to what it was prefit......and he fell asleep. i stayed downstairs till after 2.30am then falling asleep i went to bed to take my meds. And i fell asleep.
vibes for my big old boy AGAIN please.
sometimes i wish i could film him to show others what it looks like and to show to vets too..but its not fair to leave him to film him....and the vets know im not making his fits up. so no need.
Over a year seizure free then he has one then another then 2 major ones.......hes still got his ear infection...drops got stopped whilst he was at vets and i lost them for 24hrs then found em again but only a bit in bottle.
So i got a taxi to our local vets to pick up more phenobarb pills...canaural ear drops and 4 tubes of rectal valium..and back again..i hated leaving him alone.
all the vibes you can muster....please.