Another rough night for Toby

Well, our dear friend Toby dog had another seizure last night. He's about 14 1/2+ and has been having more frequent bouts of this type lately. He also had to be put on heart medication in July and that seems to be helping his congestive heart failure...he's able to breathe more easily now.

A couple of months ago Toby had a seizure like the one last night. After about 3 days of rest he was back to being almost as 'normal' as he had been prior to the attack. He was eating and walking again, enjoying his life.

Toby loves to walk! Even at his advanced age, he walks. It's his usual routine after he eats: he has what seems to me like a smile on his lips, looks up at me with big brown eyes that seem to say, "OK, let's go walk!" We feed the dogs morning and evening, so Toby goes walking twice a day. He likes walking down the path along the front field...it's actually our neighbor's field, but he lets us walk in it. The path leads to his house and in his younger days, Toby would walk over to visit and be neighborly...it's a long way so we discourage such long walks for Toby now. We walk part way, Toby enjoys all the sniffing, then we turn back.

Other times, Toby prefers to go up into the woods behind our house. Last year we were able to go along the path there much farther than we have lately. Even earlier this spring, he was able to walk much farther, though he huffed and puffed. These days he enjoys shorter, less strenuous visits to the woods. We can still enjoy the shade there and the beauty of the trees, the crunch of leaves and pine needles beneath our feet. Of course, I can't tell, but Toby says there are extra special interesting things to sniff there! He also enjoys walking down the driveway [it's 200 ft long]--there's another opening to the front field from there, too---and during summer we pick blackberries along the way! He likes those!

I'm missing our walking today... We are hoping Toby will recover well from this recent seizure, but at his advanced age we are bracing ourselves for the time Toby must take that final walk to the other side...