Rosby Update

Rosby was doing so much better on Friday/Saturday morning. I had taken her on several walks and she was acting like her old self again. She even played tug with Dan! Well, Saturday morning, we were five minutes into a walk and she had a small seizure. We turned around to go home and she had another one. I called the vet when we got home and she was having "cluster seizures". They told us to bring her in. Dan took her and I stayed home with the kids. She was in bad shape when they got to the vet. It took them a while to stabilize her. The vet rushed a prescription for a new anti-seizure medicine and they hooked Rosby up to give her valium and fluids. That helped to finally stabilize her. The vet was concerned because one of her eyes was not dilating. Needless to say, Dan was extremely upset. Thankfully, Callie volunteered to pick up Ben and take him to her house for the night (Thank you Callie!). Dan, Abigail and I went to pick Rosby up before the vet closed, about 2pm. The vet gave us the low-down on all of the medicines Rosby will be taking and gave us a syringe of valium in case we need to stop cluster seizures. Rosby was vomitting (all over me once!) and just wasn't herself. The vet left the catheter in her arm in case we had to take her to the emergency clinic...so we wouldn't have to pay for them to put one in. Her little leg was wrapped in a neon pink bandage. We brought her home and within an hour she stopped vomitting. We were told to keep her as calm as possible (another reason we were thankful that Ben was at Callie's), so we kept her in her crate. She slept most of the time, except when we let her out to potty and give her her meds. Her face was twitching a lot and she had some more of what the vet calls "bubblegum" seizures. We had a lot of trouble trying to get her to take her meds (7 in the morning and 5 in the evening); I had to shove some of the pills down her throat, poor baby. We just stayed close by (hooked up the baby monitor in our room so we could hear her while in the other room); we missed a visit with Jennifer and Jameson (sorry, guys- we really hoped to see you...glad you got to see Ben). Last night, Rosby had about four seizures that I woke up for throughout the night. I was kind of out of it, but I noticed foam around her mouth after I heard her making noise, so I assumed they were seizures. They were mild, thankfully. Today, we gave her one of her new anti-seizure medicines (which caused her to vomit at the vet-so we gave meds to prevent vomitting before the seizure med) and she did throw up five times about an hour later. Fortunately, it was all within 20 minutes, and then no more for the whole day. Dan stayed home to keep an eye on Rosby while Abigail and I went to Callie's to visit and bring Ben home (boy did we miss him!). Rosby slept for most of the day, but did have a couple of seizures. One of them caused her to almost fall over :(. When we got home, around 4:30, we let her out and she walked around and drank water. She did have another seizure where she lost her balance, but recovered quickly (no cluster seizures).

Good news for tonight (we're grabbing on to all we can)- She ate. She was EXTREMELY messy with her food, but she ate. I only had to shove TWO pills down her throat. She's been out of her crate for awhile tonight and hasn't had any potty accidents. She's given both Dan and I kisses!!! She curled up next to Dan and is sleeping. She laid down with one back leg out...something she's done since she was a puppy, but hasn't done since being so drugged up. She's drinking her water in groups of three slurps (another thing she's done all her life)...slurp, slurp, slurp...pause...slurp, slurp, slurp. I never thought I'd be so happy listening to Rosby drink water. We don't want to get our hopes up, but we are also trying to stay positive. I take her back to the vet tomorrow for a follow-up visit...they will take her catheter out...no more pretty pink tape. I'm sure she will be happy. I will update the blog if there is any new info. I know I am being pretty detailed in my Rosby updates, but I know that our family understands how much we love her and consider her a part of our family. I know you will all want to know how she is doing. Please continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you!