I just signed a DNR for my dog...UPDATE
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My heart is so broken right now. He's had 4 seizures in24 hours. Good thoughts, if you please, that he pulls through. The vet thinks it's a brain tumor. 
UPDATE:
Well, I get to bring my boy home this afternoon. He did not suffer any seizures last night and seems to be responding to the phenobarbital load that the vets gave him. He had his last load at 11 this morning. Apparently he's stumbling around like a bit of a drunk from the medication, but at least they didn't have to give him any emergency drugs last night.
The long term outlook is not great, as the vets are fairly certain he has some sort of intracranial problem. But, with medications the seizures can be managed for now and we'll see how his quality of life is day by day.
Thank you so much for the kind thoughts. I'm so happy I can have him by my side tonight, even if it means I sleep on a futon mattress on the floor with him. 
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I know what that's like......
Poor doggie!
It is so heart-breaking to see their health decline.
My thoughts are with you.
flea- and tick-ridden, with an awful sunburn. He was about 6 months old then:
And here he is now (well from November):
My heart goes out to you.. I know your heart is breaking. I was recently there myself and it's the worst pain. As hard as anything I've ever been through.
Holding out every good thought for you and your darling boy. I will watch for updates with everything crossed.
but I'll take it. He's currently passed out, half on his bed, half on the floor. This was how little brother #2 welcomed him:
Gotta make sure he's okay. 
Without those groups and the yahoo canine epilepsy groups, Alex the Wonder Dog, most handsome Prince of North Columbus would not have lived as well or as long as he did with his idiopathic epilepsy.
Things I thought about first.....a seizure uses up a fair amount of glucose, after the post ictal pacing slows down, some preservative free breyers vanilla ice cream, just a tablespoon or 2 to do a fast glucose bump. I would soft scramble an egg or give cottage cheese when the he was back to himself.
Baby gates will limit the pacing area in your house, as well as keeping your 2 dogs separated once the sz begins. B/C I had 2 dogs with epilepsy at one time for some years, when I was at work , Duke would be in a large crate , his szs were mild and infrequent, Alexs' were worse, so I baby gated doorways, picked up all the chairs and anything else that could become an obstacle to a stumbling post ictal dog. I bought several long rugs with good gripping ability, so he wouldn't do a bambi slide and hurt himself more. I also kept a big jug of a non toxic floor wash, bucket and mop in the broom closet, so I could do a fast floor mop, if needed.
Keep a calendar/log of the times of the seizures; you will have to tweak the meds some over time, Alex had many, lots, many of his seizures between 2-4 am. Vet and I tweaked meds, so he had a 'bumper' dose of phenobarb at 10:30pm. It helped a fair bit.
The post ictal time for Alex seemed shorter when I could get him outside into the winter cold air, it seemed to work for some dogs. I learned to sleep in sweats, leave my coat next to the door, with a key in the zipped shut right pocket and have felt scruffs so I could be up and out the door within 90 seconds. Humid summer weather seemed to keep him pacing longer.
If you have questions, PM me, but I am using the libraries' computers for the next 2 weeks, so I can't always respond till the next day.
BTW, your dogs are beautiful.