I guess I was awake anyway, and getting up at 5:15 is something I need to start getting used to, but I wasn’t ready for that this morning. I heard something, and pretty soon after that something resolved into the sound of Roxy convulsing. I dashed downstairs and found her under the baby gate at the bottom of the stairs. Poor thing. I pulled the gate off of her, made sure her head was free, and waited it out. It was a normal seizure, no cluster this time, and she took her usual half hour to shake it off.
We were both up and irretrievably awake, so running, breakfast, and getting to work all happened a little earlier than usual. Not a bad thing, I guess. We took the dogs for a long walk yesterday afternoon (I really like taking walks with John. And the dogs. I need to convince him that we should make it a habit. Even if it’s just a weekend habit. I like it.), so my legs weren’t completely unprepared for this morning’s run. I was a little stiff, but it felt really good. Best thing? It wasn’t cold. Yay!
mel
Yay, spring has sproinged!
Wombat Central
Poor pup! How often does she have seizures? We used to walk the dogs together every morning before work. It was a nice chance to chat. My, how our poor dogs (now singular) took a back seat when the kids arrived… :\
Zannah
She used to have about one a month, but since last May, they’ve been happening more often, they’re more likely to be cluster seizures, and she tends to have another one about 12 hours after the first. Then we’ll go a few weeks without one. She’s almost 7 and has been having them since she was a year old. Thankfully, she has no idea once she’s recovered and she acts like a (mostly) normal dog. Right now, for example, she’s sweeping the floor with her tongue looking for rice we might have dropped during dinner. 🙂
momma betty
That makes me sad. Not the rice licking–the seizures. Who’s Wombat? (Or is that bad form to ask?)
Zannah
She’s a blogger, Mom. If you click on her name (in her comment), you can visit her website.
Zannah
Was that snippy? I didn’t mean to be snippy. Here’s her site: http://wombatcentral.blogspot.com/
And here’s her daughter being cute: http://wombatcentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/darn-distractions.html
Wombat Central
Thanks, Zannah. I came back to read up on Roxy’s seizures and found your comments to your mom. Nice that your mom reads your blog! I don’t even think mine remembers how to find mine, though she is frequently fodder for posts, so maybe it’s just as well sometimes. 😉 So sorry your dog has a rough go of things, but I guess it’s some consolation that she doesn’t seem to remember what happened.
Zannah
If I had any sense that Roxy was developing a fear of convulsing or something, I’d be a basketcase. Though I have no idea how she’d display that kind of behavior – it’s not like a fear of something concrete. No, as soon as her recovery period is over, she acts like it never happened. And hard as it is, that makes it much easier for us.
I don’t know what I’d do if Mom didn’t read my blog. Sometimes she’s my only commenter! 🙂
mel
I’m getting better at commenting. Thank Santa for RSS Feeds!
Requisite “poor Roxy” comment inserted here (though I do mean it sincerely).
Zannah
You are getting better, and I appreciate it. Really. (So does Roxy.)