Max has been doing really well the last week or so. I took him off his anti-seizure meds.. he hasn't had a seizure and is on a very low dose of 150mg 2x day. First weaned him down to 1 at night time and then the last week off completely. He's been sleeping a bit more, but when he's up he's more alert. We've been going for longer walks, but I've notice his face is a little more sensitive - not sure if that's because of his eye injury from when I accidentally dropped him on his face in the gravel the night before we left for NY (I still feel really bad about that). His vision is still bad in that eye and if something sneaks up on him he flinches pretty quickly. Even Buttercup walking up next to him suddenly caused him to flinch. But I kept seeing him do it every time the wind blew, unless he had bugs flying at him - which is a possibility the horse flies are REALLY bad right now. He doesn't seem to do that at home in the house - just out on walks. He's also been sleeping in weird positions and wedging himself in between dog beds.. or hanging off the back of dog beds.. he'll even get up to readjust to get exactly comfortable in between the dog beds... so he's doing this on purpose. Maybe the cooker floor under neath and using the bed as a pillow? I don't know but it's a new thing for him. He seems comfortable. (He has had a slight limp on his right front shoulder.. so this could be due to an injury - or it could have caused him to be sore? I don't know - maybe he needs a body pillow huh?!)
He's been wanting to walk further on our walks.. he's slow at first but once he gets going he is faster than the other dogs (#2 has a hurt leg at the moment) but definitely seems to have more endurance them they do. His eye drooping that I was seeing a few days this week seems to have gone away - it was in his eye he fell on so maybe it was just irritated. He was rubbing at it a lot.
Today a butterfly flew into his face and he actually tried to jump at it and catch it in his mouth! Also when he was sniffing around at the field and realized he had fallen behind us, he turned around and ran to catch up with us. I haven't seen him do that in a while.
To me, his face looks stronger, like it's filled out some.
I have been noticing some twitching though - aside from what could be bugs in his face - every so often it looks like he has a muscle spasm, so today I put him back on the 150mg of Keppra to see if that goes away.. It could be a muscle spasm from the increased exercise, but it could also be a focal seizure I suppose? Better safe than sorry. It's pretty funny though - he's been off the Keppra for just a short period of time and that 150mg is making him seem drunk and wobbly. It reminded me of how it took a couple of weeks of playing around the with dose to get him to where he was where he could walk and wasn't sleeping all day and wasn't crashing into anyone (which he's doing). I guess we need to get him used to it again.
Anyway - that's the latest on Max - we'll just keep him where he's been on the meds for the past few months - he's been doing very well and we want him to stay that way!
.He's been wanting to walk further on our walks.. he's slow at first but once he gets going he is faster than the other dogs (#2 has a hurt leg at the moment) but definitely seems to have more endurance them they do. His eye drooping that I was seeing a few days this week seems to have gone away - it was in his eye he fell on so maybe it was just irritated. He was rubbing at it a lot.
Today a butterfly flew into his face and he actually tried to jump at it and catch it in his mouth! Also when he was sniffing around at the field and realized he had fallen behind us, he turned around and ran to catch up with us. I haven't seen him do that in a while.
To me, his face looks stronger, like it's filled out some.
I have been noticing some twitching though - aside from what could be bugs in his face - every so often it looks like he has a muscle spasm, so today I put him back on the 150mg of Keppra to see if that goes away.. It could be a muscle spasm from the increased exercise, but it could also be a focal seizure I suppose? Better safe than sorry. It's pretty funny though - he's been off the Keppra for just a short period of time and that 150mg is making him seem drunk and wobbly. It reminded me of how it took a couple of weeks of playing around the with dose to get him to where he was where he could walk and wasn't sleeping all day and wasn't crashing into anyone (which he's doing). I guess we need to get him used to it again.
Anyway - that's the latest on Max - we'll just keep him where he's been on the meds for the past few months - he's been doing very well and we want him to stay that way!
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| His face looks good! |
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| His right eye has a little droop from earlier this week but it's gone now |
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