Sunday, July 6, 2008
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Things We Now Know For Henry
Henry~9 years old (approx.)
Riley~13 years old
Exclusively raw fed Feb. 16th-April 24th
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Started Home Cooked July 24th
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Henry's grand-mal seizure record (since joining our family 9/27/07)
~December 9th 2007
(March 10th, started Flagyl)
~March 11th 2008
*made it 3 months 2 days
~March 21st 2008
*made it 10 days
~April 2nd 2008
*made it 13 days
(April 11th, started another round of Flagyl,
found out it is a trigger)
~April 13th 2008
*made it 9 days
~April 23rd 2008
*made it 10 days
~April 25th 2008
*made it 2 days
~May 14th 2008 (one of the milder ones)
*made it 19 days
~May 23rd, mildest grand mal we have seen
*made it 9 days
~June 5th, again, very mild, but still a grand-mal
*made it 13 days
~June 25th, mild, but not the mildest
*made it 20 days
~July 8th, full blown severe grand mal, ice pack helped
*made it 13 days
~July 17th, full blown major grand-mal, only lasted 15 seconds or so due to ice pack.
*made it 9 days
~August 9th
*made it 23 days
~August 29th, midnight
*made it 20 days
~August 29th, 4:55 AM
*made it 4 hrs, 55 min.
~October 3rd, 10:20 PM, extremely severe
*made it 35 days
~October 4th, 5:10 PM & 9 PM
~October 5th, 4 AM & 7 AM
started meds, 2 grains Phenobarbital twice daily, given Valium for 3 days, till Pheno kicked in.
On October 18th, we increased Pheno to 2 1/2 grains a day, due to Flycatcher Focal Seizures being so easily triggered, we were concerned another severe Grand-mal wasn't too far away.
~Feb 1st
*made it 4 days shy of 4 months
~April 15th
*made it 2 months, 2 weeks
~April 26th
*made it 11 days-we believe this one was triggered by chemotherapy being excreted by his brother
-May 4th 3:26am
*only made it 8 days this time =(
-May 24th 2:32am
*20 days
-June 9th 11:29pm
*16 days
-July 30th 5:30am
*7 weeks! Milder than usual
-Sept. 24th 6:08 am
*8 weeks, slowly getting further apart...
-Dec. 4th 4:08 am
*10 weeks
(Riley passed on Jan. 27th)
-February 7th
*9 weeks
-February 8th
*one day
-February 25th
*17 days
I originally started this blog to share our experience as we journeyed through th world of raw feeding. Unfortunately raw did not work out for one of our dogs and so we no longer feed raw. =( However, I want to make clear, please do not look at our failed experience and assume raw is bad. Riley did exceptionally well on it. Henry however, did not. We believe this is due to his fragile condition and suppressed immune system. I believe also about kibble, that the best most expensive kibble just may not be the best one for your dog. Dogs are unique, and there is no one size fits all in how to feed your dog. I still continue to believe raw to be one of the best ways to feed your dog, *if* your dog does well on it.
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Disclaimer!
I am just as capable as anybody of being wrong, please do not take my word for anything. My hope would be to provoke you to do your own research and find out for yourself. I also want to say, we cannot rely on our vets to tell us everything, nor can we rely on them to know absolutely everything. They are human beings like us.
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1 comments:
Found this and thought of you and Henry!
http://petmedsforcatsdogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/natural-treatment-of-seizures-in-cats.html
Hilary
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