{"id":208,"date":"2009-01-23T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T22:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/23\/valley-fever-not-epilepsy\/"},"modified":"2009-06-05T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T18:54:53","slug":"valley-fever-not-epilepsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/23\/valley-fever-not-epilepsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley Fever, not Epilepsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last test results on Apollo came back positive for Valley Fever.  In fact she said the test came back strongly positive, so it&#8217;s fairly serious.<\/p>\n<p>Dogs in the Southwest get Valley Fever just like humans do, and as in humans usually just infects the lungs.  But in some cases it will break out and infect other parts of their bodies.  When it infects the brain it can cause seizures.<\/p>\n<p>With treatment the prognosis is good, but he will be on expensive anti-fungal medication for at least a year and a half, and possibly the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is better than epilepsy,  but at least there is a treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last test results on Apollo came back positive for Valley Fever. In fact she said the test came back strongly positive, so it&#8217;s fairly serious. Dogs in the Southwest get Valley Fever just like humans do, and as in humans usually just infects the lungs. But in some cases it will break out and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}