Friday, December 09, 2005

Life in the "not so fast" lane!

We have just been hangin' out here in Mission with Mom and Dad. Sleep in every day, drive the golf cart around, take naps, eat . . . It's tough.

Our Wheaten Scottie, Neal, started having seizures again the other day. Had about 5 in 12 hours. Kinda scarey as we thought we had them well controlled. Don't know what triggered them, and we were totally surprised by it. I upped his one med and then started with a larger dose to get them stopped. Now I will probably back off a little, but probably keep it a little elevated. Thank goodness our vet has instructed me pretty thoroughly on what to do when this happens. It's truly frightening, but I am on a forum for epi-dogs and one of the members has seizures herself. She said she is in a stupor too afterwards, but they are not painful and she doesn't remember them, so she assures us we shouldn't worry about that with the dogs. He's getting back to his normal self now and he and Bailey are back sleeping in the same enclosure. We separate them when Neal has trouble as we don't want Bailey to get in his way.

Today they had a craft sale in the hall and "patio" sales, not unlike a garage sale, but no one here has a garage. Hah. Didn't find anything I need.

The weather has turned cold. It was cold last night and it rained. Down to about 36 degrees. Today it got up to 48 and tomorrow it will be back in the 50's. Then Monday back in the 70's. Sure is a lot better than shoveling snow.

Till next time. . .

Dale

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