You guys are both right on to what I'm thinking and what I've experienced. As far as heating up, after 25 or so non-stop grand mal seizures, his temp was elevated to the point that they put him on cool IV's as soon as we got him breathing but knocked out. PB, the seizures were so brutal that they were life threatening; he stopped breathing right when I got to the animal hospital.
I guess "stoned" is about the most accurate description of how he is acting on PB. He does not exibit the scary aggression he did when they had him on valium, diazapam (sp?) and who knows what else. Man, he was more than a handful then!
Now, part of him being stoned is odd. He wants to play like he used to, but he sounds like he is going to kill me. For example, he has always been trained that he can play "semi-rough" with me when I put on welding gloves. When the gloves are off, he won't play bite my hands. He is still that way now, but he has added this bone chilling growling and snarling along with his play. His tail is still wagging and he will stop immediately when told to stop, but he never added sound to his play before. I'm still being very cautious playing with a stoned dog, but he seems to know all the "rules" to the game.
I really hope he quits being lost. I'm not used to worrying about him wondering off. Heck, he has always known what "go to your room" means. He goes to his kennel and stays there. It has been funny in the past when I've had his kennel moved from it's usual spot in the garage for cleaning because he was obviously was confused, but would lay down where the kennel should be. Now when told to "go to your room", he goes into the garage and misses his kennel! He'll walk right next to it and then seem confused that he is not in his kennel. He then tries to "open" the side rather than going to the front where the door is open. This is why "stoned" seems to accurately describe him.
I have a remote control training collar, but I don't want to use it to "re-train" him because I don't think he is intentionally wondering off. I don't think he knows what he is doing. Using a shock collar at this point would seem to only be cruel and very counter productive. Actually, he has only worn the collar once; when he was about 3 months old. I don't know if it even works still.