My name is Gunther, and I am one loved guy.  I am only 5 years old, but I have been battling seizures since I was 2.  It can happen to anyone, but my breed, a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, has more than their fair share of the disorder.  My luck.  Anyway, I got it bad, but I also got it good in picking the best family ever!!  They have really hung in there and gotten me the very best treatment possible!  My Veterinary Neurologist, Dr. Knowles, is very special to me — she knows all the newest and best treatments for me, and she even calls my Mom every week to check on me.  She loves me, I know, but who doesn’t?  How can you not love this face?  So I throw a little drool every once in a while — how is that so different than all that hair gel I see folks pay so much for?  Just slather a little of this clear gel I so willingly provide — free of charge!  I digress, back to the story……

My Mom gets me the very best integrative medicine possible.  She takes me to the Veterinary Neurologist for my Western Medicine, and then she drives me over a hundred miles to get my acupuncture, chinese medicinal herbs and medical qigong.  See, she loves me!  She wasn’t content until she felt she had done everything she could to keep my seizures under control.  I get something called “cluster seizures,” which can be really dangerous if I just keep having the seizures one after the other — something about cooking my brain……

So I gotta tell you, I have a good life.  I wouldn’t be here now if it wasn’t for my Mom taking such good care of me.  To sum that up, for seizure disorders, you may need to use the western anticonvulsant medications, and you also want to see an integrative veterinarian to add acupuncture, chinese herbs, supplements, talk about your diet, and maybe even Medical Qigong.  There are a lot of possibilities for treatment, so don’t let your family get overwhelmed if you get a diagnosis of seizure disorder. I’m living proof that sometimes even the hard cases can live a good quality life.