Friday, July 22, 2005

Grand mal seizures in cats

I am posting this in hopes that someone out there will come across this and that they can either answer my questions or at least feel support in that, there is someone else how has a seizure kitty.

Pumpernickel is just over one year old. she is a short hair domestic tortoise shell. She eats just about anything sh gets her mouth on, and has probably the worst markings ever, she reminds me of a moldy pumpkin. She had a problem when I first got her, she had a very bad skin rash, and when I took her into the vet they weren't sure what caused it but thought it might be food allergies. the rash had gotten infected so I had to wash her twice a week in an anti-bacterial anti-fungal shampoo that had to stay on her for ten minutes at a time. she hated it! I changed her food, tried to eliminate anything that might be causing her problem, but no matter what cat food I tried (the only kind she wouldn't eat was kitten food) she still had the rash. Finally I discovered she was eating the fish pellets. I locked up the fish food and moved the fish out of her immediate area so she would stop drinking the fish water and low and behold, her skin cleared up!

She had her first Seizure shortly after I had placed ant baits out an sprayed raid on a and colony, so I assumed she had gotten into one or the other and had eaten it and it was a reaction to the poison. the second time again I had sprayed raid, but I had wiped it up before i let the cats get anywhere near, again I assumed it was from a reaction to the chemicals and vowed never to use the stuff again. the third time she had one, we'd been playing and I had put a collar on her... which at this point I should mention she hates collars because when she was first brought home I had put one on it and while I was at work she had gotten it stuck in her mouth when she had tried to get it off....so i thought maybe it was a stress reaction, more a nightmare then an actual seizure. the fourth time it happened i had been working on some mailing and had rubber bands left over, which i would fire across the room and the cats would chase them, these had gotten onto her feet, but i don't know if that was enough to have stressed her out. this latest, her fifth, happened last night during a particularly long and loud thunderstorm. this one was worse then the others, she flipped about in the bed, wrapping her self up in on of the blankets. it looked like she might have been biting the blanket as well. It wasn't until after i got back to bed that I discovered she had peed as well during this, which made this last seizure a Grand Mal rather then a petite. I called my vet, and the suggestion I got was to start keeping a detail diary of what she does and what happens, how often she has seizures, how bad they are, and what happened before she had one.

I worry for her, I wan so much to be able to do something for her but have no idea what to do. If anyone out there reads this and has an Idea how to help I will gladly take any direction I can.

Monday, July 11, 2005

wow I updated

so another beautiful day here. it misty rained this morning, now its sunny. typical of oregon coast weather! I have had a fairly busy day, somewhat frustrating, but good for the store. maybe if the rest of the week/month follows this tread we will be ok despite UPS' nasty attitude toward us. I have really been enjoying gmestone IV but am sad that after this month i will either have to quite playing or come up with 15 bucks to play another month. I wonder if I could get a group together and we could all use the same account, and still have our own charectors?? and be playing together?? I will have to ask my roleplay liking freinds if they would be interested in doing so.  three people ould make it 5 dollars a month... that would so rock!

Friday, July 01, 2005

did i read that sign correctly?

In an office:

TOILET OUT OF ORDER...... PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW


In a Laundromat:

AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES: PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE
LIGHT GOES OUT


In a London department store:

BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS


In an office:

WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YESTERDAY PLEASE BRING IT
BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN


In an office:

AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON
THE DRAINING BOARD

Outside a secondhand shop:

WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC WHY NOT BRING
YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?


Notice in health food shop window:

CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS


Spotted in a safari park:

ELEPHANTS PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR


Seen during a conference:

FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN'T KNOW IT, THERE IS A DAY CARE
ON THE 1ST FLOOR


Notice in a farmer's field:

THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE, BUT THE BULL CHARGES.


On a repair shop door:

WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING! . (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL
DOESN'T WORK)

oh such utter happiness!!!

So because I found out that I can email blog to blogger (aka blogspot.com) and the msn space i wanted to be able to do so with xcedra.myblogsite.com as well and i found out how i can!! now the only blog that doesn't allow such thinds is the diaryland stuff. I can handle that though. I am just so jazzed about this! its a silly thing to be excited about, but I think it will be really nice. I think i have to give permissions if I want any one else to email post to the blogger one, but the msn and blogware just needs being sent to the riight email addy. tres cool ne? yes i just mixed to foriegn langesges togethre deal with it!

happy fourth of july weekend!

Happy Fourth of July!!!!

yeah, I know totally cheesy, but its kinda pretty! If i could just figure out how to add pics this way though this whole email in the entry/update would rule!


I am a very strange person

But I'm happy!
I have absolutely no plans for this weekend... Hopefully I will busy myself with cable making, and gardening, and cleaning. it would also be very nice if I could plan a successful invasion of funkyland or land of destruction. I wonder if they will be around on the fourth or away from their comps.... if they are away there's a stronger chance of me succeeding.

Benji said he's created a monster....

Gwarrrr!!!!!!