No seizures since 5am Tuesday morning, but I really don't like how the Phenobarbital effects her. It's like she's drunk and I can tell she doesn't like it. I might have to talk to the vet about lowering her dose.

Bella had another seizure this morning around 4:55am. This one didn't seem to last as long, but that might just be wishful thinking. For anyone who's counting, that's 3 seizures in a little over 24 hours from a dog who has not had any seizures in at least 5 months. I talked to the woman who took Bella in back in February and she said, as far as she knows, Bella did not have any seizures while she was fostering her.

And, I just got off the phone with the vet and he said the blood tests were all clean so the cause is probably neurological - epilepsy. He suggested prescribing some medication to help get the seizures under control and then setting up consultation with a neurologist.

Okay. I am officially freaked out now. Bella just had another seizure about 30 minutes - less than 24 hours since her last one, which was the first one she's had in the 2 months that we've had her.

During her seizure last night, luckily she was sleeping on the floor in the den. Tonight, however she was on the couch but thank goodness I was sitting there with her. At around 8pm, I decided to play a little xbox instead of going to bed. If I had gone to bed, Bella would have fallen off the couch and onto the hardwood floor. I saw she was about to have another seizure and I scrambled over to her just in time to catch her and keep her from hitting the floor.

A couple people have asked me if she could have gotten into anything toxic and I'm pretty sure she has not. At least, we haven't seen any evidence that she has.

The only major change or occurrence was yesterday when our A/C was out and it got up to 90 degrees in the house. We tried to keep her as cool as possible - I would try to get her to get up and drink water, but was just did not want to get off our bed where she was laying with 2 fans blowing on her. At one point I started wetting small towels and putting them either on her chest or draped over her neck. Those didn't seem to be cool enough, so I put them in the freezer for several minutes and then laid them on her. I kept doing this throughout the day. If her being over heated yesterday is the cause of the seizures I don't know what I'll do. The guilt would probably kill me.

We had a serious scare this morning around 2:30am. My wife woke me up mumbling about noises. When I heard the noise, my first thought was her daughter had some popcorn in the microwave. Turns out, the noise was Bella's paws thrashing against a wall. She was laying on her side, eyes open, body stiff, legs out straight and thrashing - not like in a doggy dream of chasing squirrels - and she was frothing at the mouth. I've never seen one before - either in a dog or a person - but I knew she was having a seizure.

My first response was to call my vet's 24 hour number. Just as someone was answering the phone, the seizure seemed to pass. Bella remained laying on her side, but within a few minutes got up and started walking around. She was definitely dis-oriented and seemed a little out of it. She spent the next 5 or so minutes walking around the house getting her bearings. She would only respond to simple commands - not that she's always responsive to commands - but she was still very out of it and would only let me put her for about a minute. Once she stopped walking around sniffing everything, she just curled up on the floor and stayed there for the next 5 or 6 hours. After that, she seemed to be back to her old "rub my belly" self.

I took her to the vet this morning to have blood work to rule out any internal organ issues that could have caused the seizure and we should hear something back tomorrow. We have had Bella about 2 1/2 months and this is the first time we've seen anything like this.