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09-06-2012, 03:46 AM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Cambridgeshire, England
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| Lost 2 yr old girl to massive seizure Hi all, I haven't posted in ages but I am hoping to pick ya'lls brains a bit. I'm sorry if this goes all over the place but I am so upset. This past Monday we lost our Rosie to a massive seizure. It has been a blur and I am beside myself trying to work out what went wrong. I was Hoping you all could just give suggestions because I am not sure I can heal from this until I figure it out. We awoke Monday morning to find Rosie in her crate unable to move with any control of herself. She couldn't control any part of her but did try. We rushed her to the vet who said she was in a seizure. Who knows how long she was that way. They took her right back, hooked her up to an IV, gave her valiume and took blood tests. We left her for the day with frequent phone calls to the vet. I had to go out of town for the day to pick my daughter up in another city but hubby stayed home to make sure he was there for Rosie. By the end of the day the vet said that nothing they were doing was working and she had only gotten worse with the seizure never having stopped and by 5:00 recommended that she be put to sleep. My husband went to be with her and bring her home. He called me and told me but before I could process it and think he had brought her home and had her buried in the garden. All of her blood tests were normal With the exception I think of the kidney just being slightly raised but not over the normal range. They could find no reason for what was happening and nothing they were doing was stopping it and it only got worse through out the day. Now home and my girl already burried I am desperate for answers. I have run every little thing over in my head and searched the Internet and just can't figure it out. These are the things I can think of but really she never had any problems in her short 2 and half years. 1. She had a purtruding sternum that we noticed from the time she lost her baby fat. We'd asked several vets and none gave it a second thought. Could it have been more? 2. She has always yipped when picked up even very carefully but nothing could ever be found to be wrong but was always fine otherwise. 3. She wasn't a normal yorkie in her eatin habits as she was always a good eater. 4. She was eating, drinking, peeing and pooing normally right up until Sunday night. She had one bout of diarrhoea about 2 weeks before which was gone the next morning and one time she was salivating. I thought she was hungry and needed something in her belly so fed her and didn't see her do it again. 5. Also around that same time she had a bout of crying as though in pain. I checked her over and found she had a matt I thought might be pulling her skin. She had her bath a brush out and the matt removed and she didn't do it again. 6. She is raw fed and has been for just under a year now. She has never had a problem at all with it and always ate and pooed perfectly but now running all this over in my head I wonder if she had an underlying shunt or something that the high protein could have agrivated. But she never showed any symptoms that I can tell. The only thing I can put a finger on at all was that her pee was always a darker color than my other dog but not so different I thought much of it. If anyone can make any sense of any of this or has any ideas I can explore I would greatly appreciate it. If I can think of anything else I will post it. Sorry, if I am all over the place in this but my head is in a fog and I miss her so much, I just can't believe she is gone.
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09-06-2012, 04:06 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | I am truly sorry for your loss. I understand how horrible all of this is for you & hope you'll find your answers. I'm not even close to being knowledgeable but can offer you a long distance ((hug)).
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09-06-2012, 04:06 AM | #3 |
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| I'm so sorry to hear of Rosie's sudden illness and death. The only way I can think that you might get answers would to be have a necropsy done on her, but I don't know if its too late as she has already been buried. I empathize with both your need to know and the incredible grief of a sudden death. Sending warm thoughts that you might find peace, and the answers you need to help you heal. |
09-06-2012, 08:09 AM | #4 |
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| My deepest sympathies on the loss of your sweet Rosie. I am not knowledgeable enough to help you but I found this website on seizures maybe it can help. R.I.P. Rosie http://www.dogsymptomscure.com/dog-s...-symptoms.php#
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09-06-2012, 08:46 AM | #5 |
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| I'm so sorry for your tragic loss of Rosie. RIP little one. It sounds like she could have have a Liver Shunt. Many are not diagnosed till they're older, between 2-5 years old. Also, when Vallium does not stop the seizure, it could have been from toxins in her bloodstream that went to her brain, in which case Lactulose is used to immediately detox the system. Also the dark urine I think is seen in dogs with LS, especially if it has a strong odor of ammonia to it. Occasssionally LS dogs will drool when the toxins are building up in their bloodstream.
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09-06-2012, 08:46 AM | #6 |
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| Im sorry for your loss. I dont have any experience with this but I hope you get your answers
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09-06-2012, 08:54 AM | #7 |
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| I am so so sorry for your loss .
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09-06-2012, 10:27 AM | #8 | |
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| Thank you all for your condolences and any insight you may have, it's very much appreciated. Quote:
Our first thought when we found her and on the way to the vet was that she had gotten into something but the vet said her blood numbers didn't look as though it could have been poison of any kind.
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09-06-2012, 10:43 AM | #9 |
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09-06-2012, 06:09 PM | #11 | |
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09-06-2012, 06:14 PM | #12 |
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| I am so very sorry for you loss. Is it possible she ate something toxic to dogs?
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09-06-2012, 06:59 PM | #14 |
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| Wish I could help but I can pray for you and hope that one day your pain is less and you start to heal. I am just so sorry you lost your girl like this. She was so young. This is such a tragic and awful story! I know she is at peace now. God bless you and I hope each day starts to get a little easier soon.
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09-06-2012, 07:33 PM | #15 |
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| I am so very sorry for your loss. Its hard when you are expecting it, let alone when it is just sudden like that. Praying for you and your family. RIP, baby girl. |
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