Written in memory of Bibbi

A picture of Bibbi, if you want to see her is posted on my Instagram Linneagbfanfiction

Hello guys. This is Linneagb here with another story for Epilepsy-awareness…

The second Monday of February every year is international epilepsy awareness day. It's not very well known as you probably figure by now. But I always want to write and I wanted to try something new this time.

My knowledge of pets having epilepsy is a very brief. But a friend of mine, (actually two, but I lost contact with the other) had to put down their dogs due to epilepsy. So when I came up with this I asked her if I could use her and her late dog's story to help. Anyway, she likes me spreading all the awareness that I can, and therefore said yes. And then I have google and common sense.

And after all, I hope this will turn into a story, a good one if we're lucky. Here we go. It's told from Lorelai's point of view.

That day started off just like all others did.

Most of the day had passed, it was dark outside, I and Luke had finished our dinner, Pippi Longstocking was on the TV and I sang along with the theme.

Everything was just as it always was when I took a piece of a pizza crust and held it towards Paul Anka that sat on the table.

"Pizza!"

He barked.

"Pizza! Pizza"

He barked twice.

"Salad!"

He sat still as a statue and didn't make a noise.

Luke had seen this trick billions of times, just as I had done it twice as many. However I never stopped laughing at it while Luke never stopped shaking his head and rolling his eyes.

I handed Paul Anka the piece of pizza crust and he happily ate it as if he'd never seen food before.

It was when the movie ended, I got up and turned and only saw him in the corner of my eye when he suddenly collapsed and fell down from the table.

"Did you really fall asleep sitting up?" I asked. After all of the time we had spent together I knew that wouldn't be and impossibility. But then he started shaking and kicking. "Are you chasing rabbits in your dreams?" Paul Anka just kept on shaking and kicking, he had never kicked in his sleep before like I had heard many other dogs did. 2What's up with you?"

I took a few steps closer. A thought hit me about what this may be but I was hoping that in a second Paul Anka would stop and sit up and I'd e wrong.. But he didn't stop and all of his four limps were shaking and kicking. His whole body was shaking and white foam was coming from her mouth along with whimpering.

"Paul Anka?" Without a thought I fell to my knees by my shaking dog. "Paul Anka…"

Maybe he'd gotten stuck on something on the table. And I pushed away the table as good as I could.

That wouldn't have explained the foam.

And there just was such a special look in Paul Anka's eyes. As if he was there yet he wasn't.

Suddenly I realized that there really was only one explanation whether I wanted to see it or not. I looked around, maybe I shouldn't have been alone. Maybe Luke would know what to do like he did that night when Paul Anka ate a bar of chocolate…

But when I looked up I realized I was alone in the room…

"LUKE?"

"What?"

"Paul Anka's having some kind of seizure."

Luke didn't say anything, but I heard him coming and he kneeled by Paul Anka's other side just as the shaking and seizing stopped just as sudden as it had started. Paul Anka was left panting towards the floor.

If I hadn't seen his chest move up and down I'd have believed he was dead.

"I'll go call Jeannie…"

"No." I interrupted and got up. "I can't wait for her to come. It will take too long." Somehow I managed to get on my feet. "Can you take him to the car?"

"Lor…"

"I'll drive or you drive. The animal hospital hasn't closed yet for the day. You come right now."

There was only a moment of silence and I wanted to scream at Luke that whatever we did we needed to do it now.

"I'll get my car keys."

"Come here Paulie…"

I lifted my furry, second child up, no way was he walking now.

I held him as hard as I had to for him not to slip out of my arms but as carefully as I could but as carefully because didn't want to hurt him. "It's okay. Mummy will take you to the doctor's now and then she will take all the pain…"

The road in between our house and the few streets to the animal hospital had never been so long. Somehow, I noticed I hadn't even taken my seatbelt on- something I hadn't ever forgotten before. At least not since Rory and Jess were in a car crash that could have ended so much worse.

But I couldn't have care about something as simple as a seatbelt right then.

"Sch, sch, sch." I tried to comfort at the same time that I held a soft but steady grip around Paul Anka when he suddenly vomited right over my jeans. "Oh Paul Anka… can't you drive any faster?"

"I'm already driving as fast as this old thing can go." Luke sounded so stressed, I hadn't heard his voice like this since Anna was threatening to never let him see April again. "Come on…"

The car hadn't even stopped when I opened the door and more or less fell out with Paul Anka in my arms and half ran half stumbled towards the door that Jeannie was just about to lock for the night.

"NO." I screamed and she froze in her move. "No please. We need help. We need help. Something's wrong, very wrong with Paul Anka and we don't know what…." Jeannie didn't seem sure and hadn't moved. "…He just had a seizure."

Random fact

Sometimes dogs do that… They are asleep and they start kicking as if they were dreaming about chasing something.

I have second and third chapter finished, and much of the rest of the story.

Second chapter will be up on Monday the fifteenth of February.