The Sunny good life Cocktail

Here is Sunny's Cocktail for a good life...

Your payers, good vibes, mojo, best wishes, chanting, sacrifices, doggie dates, and kind acts, are working for Sunny. Thank you!!!

Oh, and I wanted to mention Meg Menard who's incredible attention to detail, research and persistence led to Sunny getting what he seems to think is food worth living for, its amazing. Today was the first time in his whole life that he got up in the morning (7:AM) to let me know he was ready for breakfast. Trust me, Sunny is not a morning dog, every morning for the last 3.5 years I've had to bring him treats in bed in order to get him to take his medicine. The turnaround is nothing short of miraculous.

He's had an incredible couple of days. With the exception of a seizure at the dog park Friday afternoon, he has only been having small tremors which seem to be most common after hard play time.

I've been asked quite a bit about Sunny's medications and it appears there are several opinions on what caused his last recovery. I want to be clear about what happened in case someone reads the email I sent and posted earlier and determines that Sunny's recovery was related to the sudden stopping of his medication. I AM 100% SURE THAT STOPPING HIS MEDICATION DIDN'T HAVE AN EFFECT ON HIS RECOVERY. I feel it is important that I address this medication issue because I don't want someone who has a dog in a similar situation to take the desperate and drastic measure of stopping their dog's anti-seizure medications. In fact I've been told by professionals to do so suddenly will likely make things much, much worse. So, I continued to give Sunny the medicines that I know he can't stop suddenly such as his Phenobarbitol, Zonisamide, Keppra, and chose to not give him his KBR which has a half life of 15-days. The KBR is one of the medicines that I understand affected his hind leg mobility but let me assure you he had no strength in any of his legs 7 days ago. I only cut the KBR for a day and a half and as soon as I saw him getting his strength back I started him back up on it. I hope that clarifies the stuff around his medicines.

So I know I mentioned in my last post that I would cover the Sunny attributes this time but I felt it more important to discuss the medicine issue first. Sunny and I are under the careful supervision of some very talented and caring medical professionals at Capitola Veterinary Clinic in Capitola, Santa Cruz Animal Hospital in Santa Cruz, and Animal Care Center in Sonoma and we discuss the medical options for Sunny regularly. I would like to tell you how awesome the doctors helping Sunny are but feel it would be wrong to do anything short of dedicating a specific post to that topic which I will be doing shortly.