After being in the hospital for a day and a half, Bear came home, seemingly back to normal. Vets cannot pin down what caused it - poisoning, epilepsy, brain tumor are all options. He's on phenobarbital now. As for the bill....let us not speak of it, but I'll sleep easy tonight that I did the right thing.
It was an exhausting latter half of the week - talk about a rollercoaster! Am recuperating now with heart shaped Hawaiian pizza and a Newcastle.