Macky, Mowie, and Sunny

On our way home from Ohio on Sunday, we picked up our three kids (cats for those who don’t appreciate pets as your own kids) from my parents. We had dropped them off on Thursday night to stay the weekend. The boys didn’t really socialize and seemed a bit puzzled by their new, but temporary, surroundings. Mowie, on the other hand, acted like she was there all along.

When we got home and began to carry the kids up the stairs in their carriers, Sunny began to have a seizure. I quickly opened the carrier, at which point Macky went flying out. Poor little Sunny came slowly out of the carrier; shaking and paddling like crazy. He quickly found a corner in the hallway and shoved his head in there (he does this whenever he has a seizure). Within a couple seconds, his breathing turned somewhat normal and his body stopped shaking. But with a blink of an eye, Sunny went right back into another seizure.

We brought him immediately upstairs to our place to make sure he was okay. Unfortunately, he bit his tongue pretty badly again, so we opted to rush him to the emergency room. It turned out that the poor guy actually punctured his tongue and his tooth was sticking right through it. He’s now on antibiotics to help with the healing and making sure it doesn’t become infected.

The emergency vet kept him overnight to run a few tests that we haven’t done yet. We’re still waiting on those results. However, they did start him on seizure medication — something he’ll have to possibly take for the rest of his life.

We’re planning on taking Sunny to see a neurologist one of these days. Hopefully with the results of these new tests, and a few tests from the neurologist, we’ll be able to pinpoint why this all occurring.

Sunny is pretty much back to his normal self. He’s still a little confused and clumsy due to the medication, but that will fade away in a few weeks time. It’s so sad that this happens to our Sunny, but it’s certainly good to see that he bounces back relatively quickly.

Macky, on the other hand, is still a bit scared of his brother since the seizure (Macky was in the same carrier as him). He’ll growl and hiss whenever Sunny comes near, which is incredibly sad as parents. But his fear seems to be decreasing a bit and tonight was a huge improvement from last night. I’m sure after a couple days Macky will realize that Sunny is no threat and they’ll go back to being best buds.

Sunny suffered another seizure last night. It comes just about 6 weeks after his last episode.

We were able to grab him rather quickly as he dashed under the bed with his little paws shaking all over the place. I locked him within my arms rather tight trying to comfort him as much as possible. Almost immediately his little body began to calm down — I could tell having him in my arms definitely helped. A few seconds later, his normal breathing took over and the episode was over. Unfortunately, Sunny bit his tongue in the process and was now bleeding quite heavily. He began to lick the blood coming from his mouth. In a way, it was reassuring — I knew our poor little Sunny was back to his normal self (a clean freak).

We decided to rush him to the emergency room because we didn’t know the severity of his cut. Sunny was such a trooper. As soon as Rebecca got the cat carrier, he went right in it. He didn’t even put up a fight — he went to the back and proceeded to lay down.

The vet at the emergency room was able to clean him up. His tongue was fine, it didn’t require stitches or anything like that. They checked his vitals, and everything turned up fine, again. They didn’t really tell us anything knew. Perhaps we do need to take him for further tests, though.

By the time we got home, 4am, he was back to his normal self. He did his little famous trot out of the carrier, and then climbed on the bed and proceeded to fall asleep. Sunny woke up this morning as if nothing happened. He ate his entire breakfast, and then proceeded to go back to sleep.

It’s incredible how his seizures don’t really affect him. His personality is the same — he still wants to clean, still wants to play, and still enjoys eating. He’s the sweetest thing in the world.