Today was Week 8 Day 2 of the Couch to 5K workout I’m doing. I had to run for 28 minutes. I really had to push to get through the last five minutes. Made it though. I really want to buy some new shoes. I want some Nike plus ones and also a Nike plus sportband so I can track distance and whatnot. But, I don’t have any money for them right now so…make do with what I got.
Ratchet gave us a big scare on Thursday. He had a seizure. Hubby was at work and I was lying on the couch while Ratchet slept in his dog bed in front of me. He got up and started barking. I thought he had heard a noise until I looked at him and realized he was disoriented. He was barking at the ceiling and he ran into our TV stand and our coffee table. It was like he was unsteady. And when I went over to him he didn’t really seem to register that I was there. Then he fell on the floor and had a full body seizure. His whole body convulsed, he foamed at the mouth, made a whiny/grunty noise and peed. It was horrible and scary and I was in such a panic. I just rubbed his back and said “please be okay” while I called my husband. It probably only lasted 30 seconds or so but it felt like forever. After, he kind of sat up for a minute or so just staring and drooling and then he got up and seemed pretty okay. He was a little different — pacing the house and jumping up on me several times, but after a few more minutes he was back to his old self.
We took him to the vet and our amazing doc (Dr. K) said everything looked good with him – eyes, heart, acting normally, etc., etc. He did bloodwork and we got the full results today – all completely normal – so he thinks it’s just epilepsy. He said if it was an older dog you would worry about a tumor, but when they are as young as Ratchet it’s usually just epilepsy. He didn’t recommend any medication unless he starts having cluster seizures (multiple seizures in the same day) or if he started having them more than once a month. For now, we just proceed as normal and write down whenever he has one for our records.
He hasn’t had another one (knock on wood) and I hope he never does. I’m in the process of switching his food over to a grain-free one, since Dr. K mentioned some people theorize that grain-free diets help with seizures. Hopefully he’s not allergic to any ingredients in the new food. 
If so we’ll move to another one.
BTW, Dr. K is so wonderful. He’s been Ratchet’s doc since birth and Ratchet loves him. He is SO calm around him and if you ever met Ratchet you would realize why that is so amazing. lol. He’s an excitable little fella. And I really appreciated the fact that when the blood work results came in, Dr. K himself called us to let us know. He could have easily gotten one of the vet tech’s or front desk people to call and say “hey, results are normal” but he called himself. I like that.
The kittens? No longer stay in their spare bedroom and instead roam about the house. Dr. Nefarious and Ratchet are buddies I think.
See? The sweetness almost kills me….
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My name's Amanda. I'm 32 years old, am married to my best friend and love animals. I have two dogs - Ratchet and Clank - and two cats - Dr. Nefarious and Zoni. They are awesome. I dabble in freelance webdesign, and I'm also a runner, albeit a kind of slow one. Tom Glavine is my favorite athlete of all-time. 