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Commissioned Digital Art

April 6, 2014 | By Heidi | Filed Under: Instagram, k9epilepsy, review, smile, zoo | Leave a Comment

I am so excited!! I commissioned an artist I found, quite by accident, on Instagram to create a digital portrait of two of our animals.

I definitely wanted Topaz and had her choose one of the cats. She chose Snorty!!

Here’s how they came out:

topazdrawingsnorts

The photo used of Topaz was taken hours after he had a seizure and I took the one of Snorty today.

I love them both!! We will definitely be commissioning her to do the rest of the zoo. Gotta get them done in shifts though. I’d LOVE to get them printed and frame them for the living room. That would be sweet!

The artist’s Instagram pages are: @drawn_to_your_dog_kianaleilani and @drawn_to_your_cat_kianaleilani.

We commissioned her on her website: http://kianaleilani.weebly.com/ and we paid $30.00 for the two of them.

I am creative – not bragging, just a fact – but I cannot imagine being able to create something like that.

I love digital art!!!

I’m glad she posted these tonight. I was going to totally write about the crappy night I had and how I flipped out on my husband over dinner…

But sharing this is totally better!!

Maybe tomorrow I’ll tell the meltdown story.

Till next time…

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Back to the Vet We Go…

June 19, 2010 | By Heidi | Filed Under: k9epilepsy, zoo | Leave a Comment

We took Topaz to the vet on Thursday for a blood draw to check his Potassium Bromide levels and to get a heartworm test…both were fine…we also had the vet look at a swollen spot on his face to see if it was a tooth issue or what. Topaz was SO worked up by the time we got to the vet that it was dam near impossible to get the muzzle on him, let alone examine him in any way. So the vet said to watch it.

We did and today we noticed that half of his face (the same side) is swollen, so we mulled it around a bit but then gave him Benadryl to see if that would help. I thought it was a bug bite because it swelled up so quickly and the dogs had just came in from outside. Plus, he’s acting completely normal and not favoring it or anything.

Well, there has been no change, so we’re going to take him into the vet and see what’s going on.

Our appointment is at 8:00pm, the vet is doing emergency surgery right now so we have to wait till then. Gives me a chance to get ready and we’re going to try to give him some Valium an hour before we are to leave and see if that helps him calm down any…it didn’t before, but we maybe didn’t give it enough time to kick in before. Hopefully it will work this time and calm him down!

Pictures of his face:

Topaz Swollen Face

Topaz Swollen Face

Topaz Swollen Face

Will definitely update…

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Another Grand Mal Tonight! 7/13/09 – Actually 2

July 13, 2009 | By Heidi | Filed Under: k9epilepsy, zoo | Leave a Comment

This was supposed to be published on our dog’s blog, but I didn’t change the blog on Live Writer and published it here. I decided to leave it here as well. Just cuz.

http://topazseizures.blogspot.com/

I really hope this isn’t going to be a long year with the seizures.

Topaz had another 2 Grand Mals tonight. I believe they started at 11:30pm ish. it was kind of hectic and I wasn’t able to see a clock right away. It was 11:35 when I looked at the clock…

I was making my lunch for tomorrow (Salmon, if that has anything to do with anything…the possible fish connection I made a few months ago) and Topaz went running down the hall to see my husband, which was kind of odd. Not that he’s never done so before, but it was just odd. Then he came my way and kind of staggered near the dining room table and then I knew, this wasn’t normal…so I was prepared and called my husband down to help.

He definitely foamed a heck of a lot more than usual this time. The first was fairly short, he kind of came around and then went right into the second one. It was a little nosier than the first and he was really contorted into a horrible position. Seeing a dog seize is not a pretty picture!

A few other things:

  • he didn’t urinate on himself during either seizure
  • more foaming than normal
  • loud crying noises
  • post ictal has been long, he’s still not ok (this was written over an hour later)

We called the e-vet and they suggested we bring him in. As you may or may not know, e-vets are super expensive and we only have xx amount of dollars available to use and well, it was definitely going to be more than that. They suggested we maybe bring him in and they could treat him outpatient.

We decided to keep and eye on him and call his vet first thing in the morning. If he has another one tonight, we will take him in for sure though.

I don’t know what else they can do at this point but up his medication. He may just need to be a bit ataxic in order to function with minimal seizures. Lots of epileptic dogs are like that.

I think we may have his thyroid tested again too, just to rule that completely out. Oh and we need to review the ice pack position. I am going to print that out now!

After the seizure we took him outside and I gave him some Bryer’s all natural vanilla which he loved, and also some Rescue Remedy. I also gave him 2 gr of PB tonight and we upped his KBr back to 1.5ml. I am gonna have the hubbs ask the vet about upping that back up anyways.

Hopefully this doesn’t continue. I hate to have to write these blogs…especially back to back.

*sigh* going to reset the ticker. My poor puppa!

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