Cluster Seizures again

[Snicker Bar]

We've made it almost three weeks seizure free since her last triple seizure episode I posted about . We started once daily keppra, cancelled trip to monitor her, then took her on mandatory trip- all with no problems. Today, her first day of freedom in her large familiar room, they've started again. She just had two major gran male withiin the last hour. I'm going to start her dose twice, maybe three times daily. Getting Valium now to have on hand if night gets rough .

This is very hard for me to even type; in my profession folks ask me this all the time, "What would you do, if this were your dog? Cat???" I usually recommend, if their quality of life is miserable, or, if it's possible to refer for imaging studies and rule out an incurable condition ( brain tumor) , I would put the animal out of its misery.

This , being a squirrel, and with limited research ( at least I can't find anything??), I'm at a loss of where to go from here. Have ANY others here had a head trauma rescue that developed seizures later in life ( she's almost three)? Do they generally get progressively worse? Or have any here successfully stabilized and given a wild mammal a good quality of life?

[Milo's Mom]

How many almonds does she eat a day?

[Mel1959]

:yeahthat

[Snicker Bar]

She hasn't been eating them very well , prefers pecans . I've heard some here use almond oil for Boo ball; I could try substituting that for the coconut oil if that's safe. It's pure almond extract. She just won't hardly eat a plain nut. But are almonds helpful, when it's a traumatic brain injury ? She fell from a tree as a baby when nest was cut down. Had very significant problems for first few months; all seemingly resolved until all this in last three weeks.

[Milo's Mom]

Are they helpful...well, it seems that now for at least 3 squirrels that I am aware of the almonds do help and 2 of those 3 have had significant head injuries early in life.

If you are feeding her Boo Balls, what nut are you using in them? Might you be able to use Almonds?

I can't comment about the almond oil, because the cases I am aware of eat almonds and when I made Boo Balls I did not add any oil of any kind.

EDIT: If I had to pick between an almond and a pecan I'd pick the pecan too. However, if left with no option I eat almonds by the handful. Maybe she should not have an option when it comes to nuts....just a thought

[Snicker Bar]

Ok, will make hers with almonds only. And if they help squirrels with the same history we will make them part of the daily plan for sure. Once I started the keppra, I kind of thought maybe the almonds were not the drug helping her. But now I'm thinking maybe they were. Will do both. If anyone else uses almond extract vs coconut oil in recipes, let me know and I'll add that also . Thanks for help again.

[Milo's Mom]

I think initially I would aim for 8 almonds a day...see how it goes.