Hello all i lost my best friend Lucky oct 22 2011 he died after going into epilipctus status his last seizure lasted 6 hours where he lay on a blanket in my kitchen floor for 6 hours breating very heavily and his teeth chattering, the vet said there was nothing anyone could do but that as long as he was breathing he'd be ok well after 6 hours of this he died, when i moved him lots of brownish blood came out of his mouth lots of blood it was a horrible day, but i have not been able to get any answers as to what caused all that blood to come from his mouth, if anyone can please shed some light on this it may help to bring some closure, i just feel so guilty that it wasn't epilepsy as my vet had diagnosed and maybe there was some other cause for his seizures

Dear Giancarlo,

Please accept my sincere condolences on the loss of your precious Lucky. I am so sorry that you have to go through the pain of loosing your best friend. And wish that I could offer you some answers. Many years ago I had a dog that had siezures, and it had been caused by a brain tumor.

Know that the guilt is part of this grief journey. We wonder what else we could or should have done. I'm glad you are sharing on this forum and hope it will help you with the loss process. Please try to be gentle with yourself.

With peace and gratitude,
Juturna

Hi, giancarlo, thank you so much for sharing with us how you're doing. When the physical body is actively dying, the bodily fluids will pass from the body. I am not a vet or a vet tech but from what you described the blood leaving his mouth it sounds like there possibly was a brain bleed either from the length of the seizures or possibly a brain tumor.

I know the hours that you saw your beloved Lucky endure the seizures was a very traumatic time for you, and it is normal to be "haunted" by this event for awhile in your grief adjustment journey. Your beloved Lucky really wants you to focus on the GOOD times you shared together in your earthly journey. I do so understand your heart's need for "answers," but sometimes even in this high tech world we live in there are no satisfactory "good answers" to our heart's questions.

I hope life is treating you kindly, giancarlo. Please know you are in my thoughts and prayers, and look forward to knowing how you're doing whenever possible.

Peace and blessings,
moon_beam

I tried Googling seizures with blood coming from the mouth but didn't find any real answers. I'm sure you probably already tried that. The only thing I found was incidences of kids biting their tongues during a seizure. I feel inclined to say pretty much the same as another poster already did, that it was something that happens when life leaves the body and most likely Lucky did not know it or feel it. I am so so sorry you have had to experience this. It's hard enough losing our babies without having to remember things like that.

Not knowing what happened to our babies is difficult to live with, along with the shock of losing them so suddenly. My toy poodle died in 1999 from a night-long seizure and we never knew why. He'd had 2 seizures before because he was diabetic and his blood sugar dropped too low, but on both occasions he quickly recovered when we administered Karo syrup to get his glucose back up. The 3rd time it didn't work and at the vet's his blood sugar was normal so it was evidently something else. The vet thought he either had a stroke, a brain tumor, or a brain aneurysm. He was 15 years old but it was still very hard for me to not know exactly what happened to him. I still wonder sometimes but that has been so many years ago that I'm now able to handle not knowing. He's in a better place now and that's the way I try to think of him. My latest loss, Bonnie Lou, went into kidney failure overnight with no warning and after 3 days of trying there was nothing the vet could do because her kidneys were just shutting down. I don't know why.

Whatever happened to Lucky, it was something you couldn't have helped or prevented. It sounds like you were a very loving parent to Lucky and he was blessed to have you taking care of him. He knows you did everything you could do.