Boy have we been busy lately. Poor Snickers had a seizure 8 days ago and is still having lots of trouble with the medication side effects. Mama spends most of her time helping Snickers around the house, taking her for lots of walkies to keep her muscles exercised & taking her out to potty a gazillion times a day. It has been almost 3 months now since Snickers started on the Potassium Bromide. The side effects just aren't subsiding yet.
We have started to wean down her dosage of the Phenobarbital, since it didn't seem to be helping her at all and we're hoping this will help lessen the side effects. The effects didn't get this bad until she was on both drugs at once. Her night time agitation is horrible. She doesn't want to sleep, just wants to pace, whine, go out to potty, etc. So after reading many articles about giving epileptic dogs Melatonin at bedtime, we have started her on this as of last night. The Milk Thistle seems to be agreeing with her, she hasn't had any allergic reactions, so we'll be keeping her on this.
We're still deciding about giving her the gelatin daily. We also think she probably needs to be on the Super B Complex vitamins since she urinates so often. The other problem is the extreme thirst. We try to monitor her water after supper so that she doesn't need to potty so often in the night, but she gets dry mouth so bad. We haven't found any information about how to help this as of yet. Has anyone read anything about this subject? If so, please let us know. We're desperate to help her with this problem.
As most of you know, Muzzer has left Gussie & Teka to go on a trip to visit Asta's Mommi & Daddi. So I Butchy left in my plane yesterday to pick up Gussie & Teka, next we picked up Asta, then Scruffy, Lacie & Stanley. We're going to have a MUD PAWTY! It's kind of a celebration for Asta's birthday she just had this week & my birthday which is on the 5th of October.
You're probably wondering why we are having a mud pawty, well, it's cause we have piles of dirt & mud all over the yard. Yep, on Tuesday & Wednesday, Mama played STOOPIDVISOR to make sure the men installed & updated the sewer system correctly. Here are some STINKY pictures, hehehehe!
This is where I USED to park my airplane:
This is the new sewer line parts:
See the biggest pile of dirt??? (which is now mostly mud cause it's been raining for 2 days)
Can't park my airplane here anymore:
Whew, they finally found the junction box:
This is where the big tank is buried near the house:
Mama has more pictures to take when it's not so muddy outside. She's relieved that the system is all updated now, but not that her & Papa are thousands of dollars POORER!!!
On the plane ride back home, I was teaching Asta how to fly my plane. She was scared! Prolly cause Lacie kept trying to grab the stick to steer the plane. She wanted to fly over the Iowa Hawkeye stadium to check out the football players. Imagine that!
Gotta get back to the pawty! Don't want everyone to have fun in the mud without me!
Wirey Hugs,
Butchy, Snickers, Ruby, Sylvester & Scuby
