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title: 'My Dog Almost Died: A Seizure Emergency Story'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=IUegQBLjlk4'
video_id: 'IUegQBLjlk4'
date: 2026-07-26
duration_sec: 1458
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# My Dog Almost Died: A Seizure Emergency Story

> Source: [My Dog Almost Died: A Seizure Emergency Story](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IUegQBLjlk4)

## Summary

The video recounts a pet owner's harrowing experience when their 10-month-old miniature dachshund, Lelay, suffered a series of severe seizures leading to a life-threatening emergency. The owner describes rushing the dog to the vet, the critical care provided, and the emotional rollercoaster of watching her fight for survival. The dog survived but is now on lifelong medication for a hereditary seizure disorder.

### Key Points

- **First Severe Medical Emergency** [00:42] — The owner's first extreme medical emergency for any of his dogs; previous issues were minor.
- **Feeling Helpless** [01:09] — The owner describes feeling more helpless, useless, and worthless than ever before while watching the seizure.
- **Vet's Euthanasia Warning** [03:45] — The vet warned that if cluster seizures continued, euthanasia might be the only option due to brain damage and heart risks.
- **Timeline of Events** [05:31] — Lelay was fine at 3:30 AM; found unresponsive in her crate at 8:00 AM, rushed to vet.
- **Bloat from Ingested Air** [08:17] — X-rays showed bloated stomach and twisted intestines caused by swallowing air during seizures.
- **Breed Predisposition** [10:45] — The vet explained that miniature dachshunds are prone to hereditary seizures, often manifesting before age one.
- **Lifelong Medication Needed** [11:14] — Lelay will require daily anti-seizure medication for the rest of her life to prevent future seizures.
- **Critical Low Potassium** [13:04] — Blood work revealed critically low potassium and electrolyte levels, likely a contributing factor to the seizures.
- **Bloat Managed Conservatively** [15:11] — Instead of surgery, the vet used a tube to relieve gas, and the dog defecated, signaling gas passing.
- **Close Call** [20:12] — The owner believes that if he had been 10 minutes later discovering her, Lelay would have died.

## Transcript

this video or not, but if I do, here it goes. Because I feel like it's important to just uh get my thoughts out there and talk about the situation because this is yesterday was difficult. It was a very touchandgo situation for my little
weenie dog, Lelay, and it was the first time as someone that's been, you know, situation. Like, for those that are unaware, I have a ShibaInu Costa that's
8 years old. I have a corgi that is three years old called Holo. And I have a weenie dog called Lelay that is 10 months old. And out of all the years I've had Costa and Holo and now Lelay, this was the first time I've ever had a
medical emergency for them to this extreme. Like I've had to take them for maybe a cough or like they seemed a little bit sick, but nothing to the point of where like what Lelay was in yesterday. And I just I want to show
yesterday. And I just I want to show this this clip.
Just thinking about it. Just thinking about it, man. It Oh, it hurts. I have never felt more helpless and useless and worthless than that moment.
than that moment. It was such a powerless moment because what I just showed you that that clip that is Lelay, a 10-month old weenie dog that is Lelay, a 10-month old weenie dog on the table at the vet office getting
investigating her, doing blood work and all that. She straight up has a seizure just in front of us while I'm bringing her in. a seizure and she uh she was doing that for 11 minutes like 11 minutes like guys
and there was literally nothing that could be done like there there was just doctor gave her anti-seizure medicine was trying to give her like a I think it's called dipam or whatever a bunch of different like pain medications ner
nervous system medication stuff trying to calm her down to make her go to sleep be seiz seizuring and potentially hurting herself. But like it was so powerless because she she literally was doing that for 11 minutes. Just it's
haunting. It's it's really haunting. But hearing her like whine and she's paddling, which is the the seizure. It's that's literally what it was. And oh, it is I have never been in that situation, but my god, that was one of the most
painful moments of my life. like just you you felt like you had no control. You had no control, no power. There was just nothing that could be done. It was literally it was literally not just the medicine trying to kick in, waiting for
the medicine to kick in, but Lelay being able to overcome the seizure to be able to survive through it because the seizures could have killed her because she was having cluster seizures back to back in that moment. And FYI, I I'm no
back in that moment. And FYI, I I'm no doctor or vet, but it doesn't take a you're having multiple seizures back to back that's increasing your blood think it was her blood pressure was like
130 or 140 over 200. That that's that's insane. FYI, that's not okay. Like that is critical like heart attack level. Okay, it's bad. And um she it was literally just up to her being able to overcome and survive the whole ordeal.
overcome and survive the whole ordeal. And watching her go through that for 11 And watching her go through that for 11 minutes, the the the doctor straight up told me like right now she can get through this. Like the doctor straight
this, she'll be fine. But if she keeps having the the cluster seizures back to back like because like if they kept happening throughout the day, there was probably going to be no other option but besides putting her down. And
the reason for that is because obviously when a dog is continuously or anyone's it's putting high blood pressure. It's cutting off oxygen to the brain. It causes the the brain I believe to swell. Don't quote me on that one, but like it
it hurts the brain and not even regarding like heart attack and stuff potential neurological damage that can happen and it's a horrifying situation just seeing someone or anything in a situation like that because I view my
dogs like my children. Like that that's how I view them. They're like my kids. I I take care of them like my kids. If they are even like coughing wrong, I will make sure they're okay. So, the entire situation was just horrifying. It
entire situation was just horrifying. It was so scary
that. It was not something I don't think anyone should have to see. You You should. It was bad. So, [sighs and gasps] the good news is is that she is alive. Thankfully, she she is alive. However,
she's not completely out of hot water. She is not in the critical zone of like danger. She's about to die right now, but she is not in a state of like
completely okay. And I'm going to let's just talk from the very beginning on what happened. Okay. I feel like we should start from the very beginning and should start from the very beginning and give full explanation to what happened
pictures here and stuff and I feel like it's important to really it it it's important to kind of explain this. So basically when I discovered Lelay this morning or not this morning yesterday um what happened was is she um
she got her uh basically her bathroom break. I took her outside. She used the bathroom and she had a bowel movement. Everything was fine. It was like 3:30, 4 something in the morning. Okay. And she was completely fine. Jump around happy
Puppy's completely good. And then, you know, I fed her a little bit and then in her crate for the night to sleep for a few hours because obviously she's very little and, you know, I just don't want her to get into anything, potentially
So, I put her in her crate at the night. And anyways, um I wake up like 2 and 1 And anyways, um I wake up like 2 and 1 half 3 hours later around like 8:00. And um when I get up, I'm going to go check her obviously to go walk her and make
sure she's okay. All sorts of stuff. And when I go over to her, I notice she is laying on her side like this, as you can see, and she's in a puddle of her own
see, and she's in a puddle of her own urine. And wanted to hope it was just her, I don't know, just being like a dirty dog or be laying and peeing. I just got to give you a bath or something." But no, I I go
over to her. She's completely open. She's like unresponsive. Her eyes were completely dilated. You could move your hand. She wouldn't even react. Um, she wouldn't
even really blink. It like I thought she was dead. I looked and I saw her breathing. So, I instantly grabbed the towel that was to the right. I don't know how how I got the towel, but I grabbed a towel, wrapped her up in it,
put her in my vehicle. I I just put on pajamas, put on a shirt. This is the slept, so forgive me for that. But, uh, basically, I put on pajamas. I put on a shirt, wrapped her in a towel, and I
just I rushed to the vet. I was literally mid call and all that. Like, I I called and I was like, "Hey, I need you to get the doctor here stat. I I I need you. Like this is this is bad. She's not reacting and all that. She's
at the time, I had no idea what was going on. I was just I was concerned. And so, basically, I I get there 20 minutes later. I arrive like at 8:40ish,
around there. Okay. I I arrived to the vet and I get there, they they instantly down with her. They let me be there for the whole process. They're doing her blood work. They uh start giving her temperature checks. They um they're
getting the full story, everything and all that. And then going to put her into X-rays. And then they put her into an X-ray and all that. And I see it. She she's bloated. Like she has like a bloated stomach, a bloated intestines,
and basically it was showing signs of her intestines and stomach twisting. Now, you might think this is because of food or water or something like that, but no. This story gets ridiculous. And let's just get right into that. So
basically the reason why her stomach was bloated and her intestines were twisting and stuff slowly was because she was ingesting so much air. And the reason why this happened was is apparently when I discovered her, she just apparently
everything underneath her was fresh. It was very warm and all that. And when you're having a seizure, stuff like that can happen. And I saw it yesterday after I got her there as well. Basically, um, she literally had a seizure. She peed
was having a seizure, she started obviously, when you're gulping a lot of air, it's filling up her stomach and air, it's filling up her stomach and intestines. And basically, she swallowed
so much air, it was making her entire insides gassy. And it was causing her twisting, which basically caused for immediate surgery. Like, she would need to go into immediate surgery if things were not turned around. So, in that
have surgery potentially for her, which is going to be 3,000 plus dollars." You medications and stuff that they're already giving her, the X-rays, the blood work, and everything. There was just a lot. But obviously, I told the
just save her. Please do what you have to do to save my Lelay. I I want you to do what you can because obviously she she's basically my baby girl. Like, I I love her. I love my dogs and I don't want to, you know, see them suffer. if I
could save them, I want them saved. That was basically it. So, they they did everything they possibly could. And uh the doctor was having to rush in as well It was like 8 in the morning. The doctor, the main doctor who does surgery
stuff, was not even in yet. But they they were they got there very quickly they were doing blood work and stuff. So they couldn't have instantly brought her in anyways to do any type of surgeries or whatever because obviously, you know,
they needed to test her blood samples and stuff like that to see what's fully going on, what's causing all this. So the initial reason why this all happened, what the doctor told me was that apparently uh Lelay uh this
miniature weenie dog, she's a long-haired miniature weenie dog, she her breed apparently is prone to seizures. I had no idea. I had no idea on that, but apparently from what the doctor told
me, her breed is. And um basically, if it happens, it's most likely hereditary, especially if it happens under the first year or so. That means that your dog is going to have this for the rest of her life. So, the doctor straight told me
that, oh yeah, your dog is going to have seizures for the rest of her life, and she's going to need to have anti-seizure medicine basically taken daily. to to not have this to prevent seizures. I was just like, "Okay, obviously that's just
that's very sad to hear that my little baby puppy is basically going to be on medication for the rest of her life to be able to not have seizures, but I was like, "Okay, it could be worse." Anyways, um while she was there talking
with me, Lelay starts to go into a seizure. She was laying like this and then this is after she starts like
[sighs and gasps] she starts doing this and this this went on for 11 minutes. It was so painful as I already said and she at the initial
side and she spun on her back and she just and she spun on her back and she just started having obviously we put her back on her side. I was having to literally hold her down. I
was there with the doctor, hold her down because it just it happened right there. And she put the I like as you can see there's IV in her and all that. But they they put like a medicine, diapam, and all sorts of stuff in her to try to calm
the seizure down and everything. And they they even put stuff up like anally medicine. I I forget what it's called, but they did everything they could. And pretty much uh she finally calmed down and she started to rest and all that.
And every so often she would do a slight little seizure again, but nowhere near the same length. And um as they were doing blood work and all that and they were looking at it, apparently her uh her potassium levels were extremely low.
And um they don't fully know exactly how it happened. Like her electrolytes and her uh her potassium was extremely low, but they're still looking all into that. So I got to do a follow-up appointment to check into all this what fully goes
on. They say it could have been like maybe water or food reaction. Maybe she have any water normally that she normally has, but they said it could have been water and it flushed out all her electrolytes or something. That's a
possibility. But regardless of what happened, she had low vitamins or like low potassium, which was critical levels. And it dropped very quickly on her. And because it dropped so quickly, it's what might have caused the seizure
initially or was causing the additional seizures. The the original seizure might but then the seizures followed up to that is probably because of everything that happened after that. Her urinating herself, the ingesting of air, all sorts
full cause. I'm just going to be blunt. I don't I I don't know every detail. work and stuff done with her. For instance, like a follow-up checkup appointment. But basically, um her levels were low. So, they had to
put her on IV drip. They had to administer medicine to her. They were her levels up. And they had to do it slowly. They couldn't just inject her speed instantly. They had to do it slowly because if you do it too quickly,
into shock and just straight up kill her. So, they had to do it slowly. And so, while she was getting IV dripped and all that, um, you probably can't see it seizures while she was trying to get her levels back up. And you would see her
literal blood come up her IV and push upward. And the reason for that is because her blood pressure got so high, it was pushing back against the IV. Obviously, that's not good. That's very bad. That's that's that's dangerous.
bad. That's that's that's dangerous. Okay. And basically as she slowly got the medicine in her, the anti-seizure medicine, the diapam and everything, and then the nutrients, the seizures slowly started to calm
down. The next problem was obviously the swelling, the bloat, the twisting of the intestines and the stomach, obviously because of the seizures cuz she was because of the seizures cuz she was inhaling oxygen a lot while, you know,
having seizures. And so the doctor strap told me most likely there's two options. Surgery obviously getting in there doing surgery or putting a tube down her throat and trying to suck out the gas like trying to hope that like it can
relieve the gas from it if they put a tube down her throat. Now they while in tube down her throat. Now they while in mid-seizure Lelay defecated on herself and um the doctorsly said this is I know like you know it's nasty and sad to see
but this is a good thing that means that she is passing gas that means that it's she is passing gas that means that it's not staying in her so basically it was a touchandgo situation to where like gas was slowly fading out of her body over
hours upon hours like to put in perspective I didn't leave the the vet hospital until like like 6:30. Like it was like 6:30, 6:40. That's like when I left and started to head back home. And so basically, I was there from 8:00 in
did not feel that long. I felt like I was only there for like 2 hours cuz there was just so much stress and I was just hyperfixated, hoping that she's okay. Everything else blacked out. Like I was just blacking out for everything.
It just I was just so worried about her. And um anyways, [sighs and gasps] she she got all her medication, her nutrients, and everything put into her. And the doctor straight up told me that
they need to keep watch of her because this is a very delicate situation with seizures she was having, she could go back into it again. And sometimes if dogs go into seizures like this, cluster seizures, they they never recover. For
seizures. ly they will keep having seizures until they die. And so that was a worrisome situation. So last night I stayed up all night with her. And um
little bit, she was like, you know, like well she's was calm the entire time. She was out of it, but like she was crying a lot obviously cuz she was in pain and all that. So I grabbed her and I'll I'll show a picture on screen. Um I I I laid
with her. I put her right here and all that. She just wanted lay when I like she was crying and then when I put her with me she just she she went to sleep and she was quiet and it's cute but it it just circumstances is really scary
but basically she um she's in a very delicate situation like for instance she can have a seizure at any moment right now and then the whole situation with the ingestion of air and all that can just flare back up again.
There's a lot because she is still in not like I said critical but in a danger zone enough to where anything can happen. But right now she is alive. She happen. But right now she is alive. She is alive and um she's been given like uh
nutrition I have to literally put through a uh syringe down her throat. Um she has anti-seizure medication. Um she's got like um her multiple X-rays appointment I think you know Monday or Tuesday. It's like Tuesday and um I got
to just make sure she is a-ok. Okay. But for right now though, guys, I thought I was about to lose her yesterday. It was bad. And um this is actually what they did by the way. Like this is how uh like this is the potassium and stuff by the
for those that you know were curious. This is like her levels. You can see the low levels here. It's not good. It's not good. You can see the gradual like how finally gets back into the normal and all that. But this is kind of what they
give her throughout the day. This is literally what they gave Lelay like they did like blood work, electrolyte panel. Obviously you test her for blood parasites. You know it's just a standard but they did blood sample collection.
They did lab work. They did radiograph and all that. A bunch of radioraphs aka like X-rays and stuff. Injections given for pain. Injections for initial anesthesia. ma zoam injection. You know, I don't know all this, but I know
Daipopam is like really big and like there's a lot here. As you can see, they were giving her like they they pushed her with so much Dipam that I believe would have ODI like that. They they had to go all in to basically save her. And
then they did like more injection for initial anesthesia, electrolyte panels, the catheter and fluids, sodium chloride, the potassium as you can see here. been hospitalization, intensive care, been tablets and stuff they were
giving her, you know, in the rear end and stuff basically. Uh there there was just a lot. It was just ridiculous. And this is not going to be the end of it because I got to take her back and all that and make sure everything's okay.
that she's potentially about to be on for life now because of um seizures. So, for life now because of um seizures. So, oh boy, what a what a dude. But she's oh boy, what a what a dude. But she's she's strong. She She really was close
to death. She She almost died. Like if I potentially was maybe 10 minutes later, potentially was maybe 10 minutes later, she probably would have died. Horrifying. It's horrifying because like I want to
of the video. She was completely fine when I walked her and everything. Everything's fine. She had proper bowel movement. She peed. She was happy jumping around. Everything completely fine.
Everything completely fine. And then literally three hours later, this happens. And it's just it's crazy how the health can deteriorate just like that. And you can't even see warning signs. There's not even a warning sign
there. And it just it happens. Like if I wouldn't have gotten up, If I would have been 10 minutes later, she probably would have been dead. It
just the entire situation is terrifying. And she she's a strong girl. She's she survived. Like she she pulled through. She survived. She is a strong strong little baby girl. And I'm I'm very happy. I'm very happy she's still she's
happy. I'm very happy she's still she's still with me. Like [sighs] With that being said though, I want to say I appreciate everybody that was
showing words of encouragement and support in the last 24 hours and those that also donated for the medical bills. Uh to be completely transparent, her medical bill, the initial bill with all of this is about a, like $60. And then
stuff I'm going to have to do. for instance, like with blood work and uh more X-rays and the medication and potentially whatever might appear if she has another seizure attack, all sorts of stuff. But um everyone that did donate
all that for Lelay's immediate like care, I appreciate that. Thank you. Like it was so bad yesterday. She was at the point of either being put down or going told me like let let me tell you how horrifying this is. You know what the
doctor told me? What kind of code do you want? For those that don't know, there is a code A, code B, and code C. And to simplify this, code A is to where they basically if her heart stops or she dies, like she stops breathing, they
just let her die. Code B is where they basically uh No, I think I got the then code A is just like they do like little compressions or whatever. And then code B is where they give her like
start her heart. and then they like shock her or whatever. That's code B. Code C is where they literally, she straight up told me they open her up, start massaging her heart to get it started again. You know how horrifying
it is to hear a doctor tell you that to hear hear them tell you what code do you want for your little one? Like what what code do you want? When do you want us to stop? And I was just like
I was not prepared mentally for that type of question. I I was just like so the doctors just be blunt. Things could get very bad. And so [sighs]
get very bad. And so [sighs] [gasps] anything can happen right now in the next few days. I'm I'm I'm crossing my fingers she's okay. But everything though that you guys did to support is
bills. It's going to be going to her medication and uh if there's anything her probably a donkey bed and uh going to be buying her like you know uh this given situation. I don't know. I I'll figure it out and I'll let you guys
the community decide. But holy crap, dude. It's just been Thank you. You all have a very blessed day or night wherever you live. Be safe. day or night wherever you live. Be safe. Stay healthy.