In late January my canine companion and I made an unanticipated visit to ECV. Pepper is a vivacious two and a half year old Jack Russell terrier who was diagnosed with epilepsy last November. My family and I returned home late one Saturday evening to find Pepper trapped between the wall and a bed post shivering and confused. Judging by her state of mind, body and location we assumed she had experienced another seizure spell while we were gone. ECV is not her normal place of veterinary care; however we were SO lucky to have been in the area visiting family at the time. I contacted the Doctor on call, Dr. Mary Olson, as it was after midnight. She agreed to see Pepper immediately, so we met at the clinic and proceeded to stabilize her. After a solid two hours of monitoring, and several administrations with potent anticonvulsant drugs Pepper?s cluster seizures finally ended. Dr. Olson performed all possible measures of support that she could at the time. We then drove Pepper to Anim
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