Yesterday Bryce was out for his usual lunchtime play/cookies – playing with Jayda, playing fetch, snarfing cookies. Then all of a sudden he had some kind of “episode” – partially collapsed, had a hard time getting his back legs under himself. Two or 3 minutes later he was acting perfectly normal.
The vet I like the least was in at my regular vet practice so I took him to the emergency vet clinic – which turned out to be equally useless. He was fine last night and this morning…
Hoped it was an isolated incident but no such luck – happened again today, oddly enough, the same time of day. This time I saw it start-to-finish. I had just put Jayda in her crate, was going to take him out before putting him up for a nap. He spun a bit (as usual) while I was crating Jayda. Went to the door, put on his leash and he just looked … odd. Then he got wobbly and collapsed as the day before. Didn’t completely lose consciousness, was acting normal again in 2-3 minutes.
Ran him straight over to my vet right afterwards for a full exam, neuro exam, full bloodwork, and a urine. Once again the exams yielded no information. So what is going on? A seizure? Bleed/Clot? Something else? And if it’s a seizure, why and why now? This is so weird because it really came on out of the blue – he ran in that trial a week ago with no indication of any problems. Should have the test results back tomorrow and we’ll take it from there …
Needless to say, I’m really freaked out right now and beyond worried about him
…
So sorry to hear about Bryce. He’s been through a lot. Had that with my Maggie when she was approaching 16 years old. The first time it turned out to be a silent pneumonia which responded to antibiotics. Did they do a chest Xray? . Later when it happened again the vet thought maybe mini-strokes. Our prayers are with you both.
Thanks, Helen. It’s really weird and came out of nowhere – he ran in agility just a week ago, qualified, and was bouncing up and down like a fool (as usual) after each time he ran. Nothing unusual over the weekend either. They haven’t done any xrays yet – bloodwork came back with nothing unusual. However his thyroid was “a little low” – I don’t know exactly HOW low we’re talking about yet.