Peri's Intuition in the Face of Danger/Sickness

[Allyson, Peri & Taquito]

Last night we had scare.  Let me preface this by saying my DH is OK!

 

Around 9:30 pm, DH lost his sight in the periphery of his eyes, his remaining vision became blurred and he was disoriented and very "off".  I had never seen him this way (he does not have migraines) and started to WebMD the symptoms.  Peri immediately came up to him and started whining, put her head on his lap and tried to calm him down. It was so odd.  She knew something was up. Taquito ran to his crate, which he always does when he is worried about something. 

 

Basically, I decided to take him to the ER based on Peri's odd reaction to him.  She was passed out on the other side of the house and the second he was concerned, she was there!  Putting her paw on him and looking at me and whining.

 

Long story short, I had a looooong night in the ER.  Of course they tested for stroke (in a 30 yr old?  was my question), clotting, etc...all came back A-OK.  So, after lots of morphine, bloodwork, liquids, etc...we came home at 5am.  And nothing was ever officially diagnosed, but they think it was a migraine (headache didn't come on until after midnight).

 

Thank goodness for my mother, who picked the dogs up at 12 am and let them stay with her. They would have been morose this morning and all out of sorts.  This is why I live 2 miles from them! :)

 

I picked them up at 11am today and they ran back, well SPRINTED, to the bedroom, where Conor was sleeping. Peri literally scaled the bed post and sat on his head and started licking him.  I. LOVE. MY. DOODLE.

 

Isn't it amazing how intuitive they are?

 

 

 

[Donna K & Quincy]

Glad to hear that your DH is ok, that must have been so scary!

[Jennifer and Jack]

Look up Basilar Artery Migraines/ Disease. I have only had three in my entire life but I was diagnosed becasue I acutally have diaseae in that artery, so all the medications for migraines do not work, they actually make it worse. Basically the basilar artery in the brain has a spasm, which is usually begin but causes very scary and serious looking symptoms such as stroke like symptoms and MS. I am on Verapamil which is a vaso-dilator. I have not had symptoms since then. I am not in any way saying that is what he had but google it, it is sometimes knowns as Bickerstaff syndrome as well. Very rare.. but it does happen

 

As far as dogs knowing, they do know.. Jack knows before I do that  I am getting sick or when my sickness is escalating, he will pace circles around me, pant, jump on me and bark... Dogs are angels sent from God and they know a lot more then they get credit for.

[F, Calla & Luca]

So glad this all worked out in the end. What a scary incident. And this is only for others but yes, people of any age can have strokes. And yes, doodles are wonderful!

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

Allyson - I don't know much about anything medical but just an FYI.  We all know people that suffer from migraines, the really bad ones where they are in bed for days.  I too have migraines (don't laugh now) about 1 every year or two and I NEVER have a headache.  Weird I know but I do get VISUAL disturbances.  I usually start out seeing fuzzy bright spots and then then my center vision goes away and all I'm left with it the periphal vision.  I've read (and then tried with success) that if you take in a large amount of caffine when you feel one coming on that it can help open up the blood vessals.  When the bright spots start I gulp down coffe or a coke and then lay down and rest.  It usually will nip it in the bud.

[Nina, Phil, Harlow & Lacey]

So glad that DH is OK.

 

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

I'm so happy to hear that it was nothing serious with your DH, and yes these Doodles are incredibly intuitive...good job of taking care of your Dad, Peri!

[Kaytlin and Cooper]

Glad to hear DH is OK