I don't have a sheep dog but something is wrong

My dog of 5 to 6 years old is having trouble standing on one of her fromt feet and absolutely will not stand on her back feet. It's almost like she can't use them. She is shaking, and she tries to stand up. She manages to sit upwright while favorimg one of her legs before lying back down. She's eating and drinking just fine, but her legs aren't working.

she's had trouble with seizures when she gets overly stressed or excited, so she possibly could have had one when my family was asleep and is still trying to revover.

Now normallly, she doesn't like her feet touched and shell'll liick my hand if i grasp one of her paws and she hasn't been doing that no matter which foot i grab. Instarted roatating her front paw and pressing on it to see if there was any pain. She seemed fine, but she didn't sniff or lick my hand and continued shaking, and i assumed if it was because she was still too excited while she was lying down, because she likes the mornings and gets excited and happy after she relieves herself. I checked her back legs and she could only barely moved them, at first I thought she couldn't feel them, but just a few moments ago, she got up and walked and wagged her tail. Her back legs seemed stiff and she was still favoring her front paw.

By now, she has stopped shaking and I inspected her paw further (rotated it, etc) when I pressed down lightly on it, she whined, so it could be possible she had something between her toes or in her pawpads, whatever, but it's preventing her from wanting to put much weight on it.

I moved her back legs they were shaky and stiff feeling. Now, the stiffness could possibly be because she wasn't lying on her side, so it would be harder to see how well her back leg moved but I'm not sure. :(
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I would waste no time getting to a Vet. If that means going to an ER Vet because your regular Vet can't squeeze you in, then so be it.

Vance
Since she is seizure prone, it could very well have something to do with that. I'd get her to the vets. Might be a stroke, or she pulled something in her thrashings, dislocated something.
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