Seizure

I think this is the scariest thing I have ever witnessed, a dog having a seizure. I have seen a person having a seizure, I have seen a person with a BBQ fork stuck out of his back after the attack. I have seen a child that needed medical attention after being beat up. I used to work in a hospital. But those were emergencies that I was prepared to deal with and except wanting to find the person who hurt the child and put the child into sickle cell shock, I can be calm. But being woken up by your husband at 5:30 AM, running into the room and shouting get up there is something wrong with the dog, starts the adrenaline going. I walked out to my dog being unable to stand, trying to crawl across the porch disoriented, drooling, and looking like she was about to die. My husband told me that she started thrashing about in her crate and he thought she wanted out. SO he opened the crate she came out, ran into the wall, ran into the door and he let her out, which is when he got me and I found her crawling on the ground. Immediately, ran to get dressed, called the emergency vet, woke up my son and went to find Kai who had manage to crawl under her favorite Japanese maple tree and would not move. Sent my son in to retrieve her, Kai managed to stagger away from him. We finally got her out from under the bush, she was stumbling but walking. We took her to the vet, where she proceeded to drool a river onto their floor. Eventually, she started to move a bit more. She has not had this happen before and not since that morning.

The vet told me that she may have had an epileptic seizure, that she is at the right age for this to happen. She also said that it may never happen again or it could happen and we would not know when, but to look for these signs:
1. Overly affectionate a few hours prior to the seizure- I had remarked to Jim the night before that Kai was acting like she wanted to crawl into my skin. She usually does not try to get in my lap, let alone want me to continuously pat her and rub her back.
2. Uninterested in her food.
3. They usually happen after they have been sleeping, because their brain starts sending out lots of energy while they sleep and there is nothing to distract the messages. I wonder if this is why they seem to run in their sleep.

So now every time Kai cuddles next to me I wonder, will there be another episode. Just now as she was napping with her head close to my leg she started to tremble. I talked to her and rubbed her back. Maybe she was just chasing rabbits.