>
> If it's any consolation, I've been working with seizure patients from years,
> and afterwards, they don't remember anything traumatic or negative, and
> seldom injure themselves. So what I'm trying to say, Nuggie should not be
> experiencing any pain, just some memory lapses. <<
I am reminded that the great Russian author Dostoevsky suffered from epilepsy,
which is his case was preceeded in each seizure by the greatest sense of
ecstacy! Here he describes the sensation in the character of Prince Myshkin,
which follows closely from his personal experience:
'He was thinking, incidentally, that there was a moment or two in his epileptic
condition almost before the fit itself (if it occurred in waking hours) when
suddenly amid the sadness, spiritual darkness and depression, his brain seemed
to catch fire at brief moments....His sensation of being alive and his
awareness increased tenfold at those moments which flashed by like lightning.
His mind and heart were flooded by a dazzling light. All his agitation, doubts
and worries, seemed composed in a twinkling, culminating in a great calm, full
of understanding...but these moments, these glimmerings were still but a
premonition of that final second (never more than a second) with which the
seizure itself began.'
Of course this is a bit of a sidetrack here, but perhaps an interesting one,
and perhaps the pups seizures are, like Dostoevsky's, not entirely unpleasant.
Having had a chihuahua with epilepsy, I do know the seizures are unpleasant for
the owner, no doubt.
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