On Friday, June 19th, around 2am, my heart dog Vida had a pretty severe seizure.

I woke up a little after 2am to her kicking all 4 legs and I thought she was just dreaming, then she got very still and started panting harder than I've ever seen her pant, so I thought "oh it's a bad dream" so I called her name and touched her and she didn't respond. Drool was pouring out of her mouth and soaking her bed and I tried to lift her up to get her to respond and nothing.

When she came out of it, her tongue was hanging out of the side of her mouth and her jaw was clamped tight against it.

She didn't recognize me, my partner, or her name. When I tried to help her stand up, she snapped, very fast, very hard, and caught my hand, bruising the bone and breaking the skin. This dog has NEVER once broken my skin in a bite, even when she's accidentally nailed me instead of a toy I was holding.

We managed to get her up and loaded in the car and took her to the ER vet around 3:15am. She was in distress and crying the entire trip to the vet, and before we left the house she was pacing, looking for something familiar, and she still didn't really recognize me or her name.

The vet did blood work to see if it had an extracranial cause like blood sugar, liver problems, or kidney problems, but that all came back normal. So the vet thinks with her age it was likely caused by either a blood clot being thrown into her brain, or a tumor.

She was given an IV sedative and Keppra to help her not be so distressed so she could calm down for the trip home, and also given some Keppra to try for a couple weeks to see if it helps. Thanks to this emergency vet visit, we are already down $778.90 trying to help her.

The vet is recommending an MRI for diagnostics to see what the root cause of this seizure was, because she's past the age when epilepsy typically shows itself for the first time.

We got home and she fell asleep on the couch for about 6 hours, and she ate her breakfast, drank some water, and went out to pee. She's still a little unsteady on her back legs, but doing much much better than she was on Friday.

This was probably the scariest night of my life. And so far I have been quoted "between $6,000 to $10,000" for the MRI she needs, and vet hospitals have not been able to narrow down the range to a tighter number for me. I am setting this fundraiser at $8000 to cover the middle range of the estimates I have gotten so far.