Dakota: seizure (#3) :(

Our sweet Dakota, our yellow lab, who's normally so full of energy and wants to play every second of the day started out our morning yesterday flopping around on the floor having a pretty intense seizure. It was devastating for Paul and I to watch our sweet puppy fighting against it for those long couple of minutes. While Dakota was fighting against the seizure, I was fighting back tears looking into my sweet puppies face trying to talk sweetly to him to help him pull out of it.

Although...we thought our sweet Kotaman's seizure was a one time only occurrence...here I am trying to do research to figure out why he may be experiencing these seizures again...with the 1st one on 10/26/2010, another one in between caused most likely by a thunderstorm and the last and worst one yesterday 02/12/2011. It may be diet, it may be genetic or it may be triggered by something environmental...basically no one has answers about why these are happening. Even the vet visit we took him to the last time he went through this seems to be no help in this situation, all blood work points to a very healthy pup. ***no help at all

They can give him anti-seizure medication if it gets progressively worse...a path we may be heading down unfortunately. Aside from that it seems we have very limited options except to be anxious and worried about Kotaman!  We are probably going to buy some dinovite and/or Omega 3 fatty acid supplements to start with and hopefully with a little better diet we won't ever have to experience another one of these again.

Although...I guess this is the same story my scared parents got when they would rush either my sister, myself or both of us to the ER with Grand Mal seizures when we were babies...Seizures are no joke! I'm lucky enough to have only had a few in my life that were triggered by environmental factors with the last one when I was 6 mo. old. I'm hoping that Dakota's are in our past as well!

Sincerely,
This scared but proud puppy parent