Well, our poor kitty continues to have seizures and near-seizures. Yesterday morning, it happened again when I was slightly closer to waking and a little quicker to react. I rubbed the acupressure points I'd been shown, and the second seizure was over much more quickly than the first.
I realized that there was a reason I thought she had died after the first one: holding her was like holding a fish on dry land -- they flop and flop and flop, and they stop only because they've died.
She lived, of course, and we got her off to the vet fairly quickly, where she had blood drawn and got a nice kitty massage. (I wonder how many human clients ask for a little healing touch for themselves.) Internet research reveals that there's usually an under-lying cause (although sometimes there isn't, and that condition is called epilepsy). Blood tests can pinpoint or eliminate most of the causes. And, confirming what the vet said, and counter to all the kitty lore I've heard and observed, it's comforting to the cat to stay with her when she's experiencing these events.
As I was reading snippets from the internet to Robert, Juliet started to go into another seizure, but never quite got to the full-blown state. And she's had three more pre-seizures since then. It wipes her out. Sometimes she's hungry afterwards, sometimes she doesn't care about food at all. But she does want to sleep a lot.
Here's hoping for some answers from the blood tests.
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