Saturday, September 5, 2015

Fantastic!

Now do any of you really know the implications of the meaning of this word?

 
Fantastic
"adjective
1. conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination; odd and remarkable; bizarre; grotesque:"
 Thanks to: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fantastic

Quite an interesting true concept of this more complex word than I recalled in my brain files. 

Okay, now what could have I thought was a fantastic thing to entitle this tonight?
I know that you do not have an idea at all of what I might be speaking about, although this is not fantastic in a good way but odd bizarre and also sad way, to us it is hard to believe poor Gus's bad luck, hasn't he been through enough being a rescue and all, really?
Our dear Havanese Gus has had two split by many weeks of separation seizures, the second one was today!
Scary, but no after effects, thankfully.
The first time we called his doctor and were warned about things that would be considered an emergency; like the length of time that it lasted and if he became feverish etc. and we all agreed that it could have been an one time occurrence, but now it seems he may need a work up like us humans have when something is awry. Interestingly enough a medication that is used for dogs is an anti-seizure one called Neurontin, which is the non-generic name of my own Gabapentin, also used for spasms in MS.
When it happens to him he cannot get up and he shakes, but does not paw at anything or foam at the mouth, he just lies down and can't get up and shakes and allows us to pet him and voice comfort him, where we can also make sure his body temperature is not rising which would signal an emergency, once it stops he appears fine, he even drank water and ate his dinner.
These could be petit mal seizures, but the cause is the mystery and that is why the workup, probably not till Tuesday since this is a holiday weekend. We do have an emergency hospital if we have to go. We took Skipper there a couple times for his stomach problems on the weekends and sadly when he died on that Sunday of November 2, 2014.
Makes me sad and upset to think Gus would have to go there; I hope we can wait till the weekend is over.  
Too upsetting, but it's the only one in county and they do know their stuff.

Moving on...

 Guess what; another storm has been named in the north Atlantic, Grace!
The good thing is that she is four thousand miles away!
Though she does bear watching...uh oh! (Happy meteorologists again!)

Good night to all and to all stay well, sincerely!

PS My medical situation is unchanged; enough said.

  

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