Doom Dogs

[Drunk Monk]

I think Yuki just had another seizure. He came in from outside walking funny and had some froth around his mouth. Took him a moment to recognize me. I’m comforting him now. 

He bit me this morning. Yuki bit me
We went to star and he went right to that pile of vomit that he fought Bodie over yesterday. There was another dog so I pulled him back and he bit my foot. My shoe took the brunt of it - no blood - but might bruise. 

I was planning to have a ‘me’ day but it’s now a Yuki day.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Poor Yukster.

[Greg]

No Bueno

[Drunk Monk]

I planned to do more errands & chores yesterday but spent most of it taking care of my dog. He was so clingy, almost textbook post-ictal. We played with the boomerang I gave him for Xmas which he enjoyed because I was rewarding him the treats, but he started to get psycho and I didn’t want to exhaust him since his past seizures seem related to exhaustion. He was very talkative and I tried to get him to say hello, but he didn’t get it. I gave him a thorough brushing, which he loves, and lots of petting until Stacy got home.

One of his pack, Chica, has cancer. She’s an older pit mutt. A super sweet dog. Her person lives in his camper and is an itinerant worker, moving from job to job, but very sociable, except after he got attacked a few years ago. Then he disappeared for a while while he healed. Chica has been showing her age more and more and now she’s extremely skinny, losing weight dramatically, not eating. Won’t be long…

[Drunk Monk]

Our vet said that Chows are prone to seizures and Yuki is a quarter Chow. They advised that we put him on medication if he has seizures once a month or if he has one that's longer than 4 mins. We're also reducing his flea med because that might be triggering, which means I'll likely get bit more, but that's just me. 

We got word that Chica passed away. Her owner was an itinerant worker, living out of his camper - took him a while to warm up to all of us but he did eventually and turned out to be a really pleasant person. We haven't seen him since and I doubt that we will.

[Drunk Monk]

Yuki has been off flea meds since my last post here but he had another seizure today. It was the worst one so far, but maybe it was because I rode the whole event through with him. He's had a flea collar, like the vet recommended, which seems to work ok so far but didn't do anything for the seizures obvs.

We may have to put him on epilepsy meds, which is a twice-a-day med for the rest of his life. It must be administered at exactly the same two times a day. Bottles is on it and that time restriction is a major hassle. Once a dog goes on this med, they cannot come off it.

[Drunk Monk]

Yuki is going on Keppra, a common anti-seizure med for dogs and humans. 

The challenge is that he must receive his dose every 8 hours for the rest of his life. Also, this will set us back another $benjamin$ a month. 

Fortunately Keppra is fairly mild, minimal side effects, not as much as the alternative phenobarbital.

He still might experience 'breakout' seizures, but they should be less, like every six months and not as severe.

[Drunk Monk]

We got the prescription. Our vet found us a generic for a little over $20 a month. That's a lot better than $100 a month.

[Greg]

Phew!