This morning about 10.15 when Molly first came in, I thought her reaction got eye seemed half closed.
I couldn’t get a proper look as she wanted to play, but she did look right at me with both eyes open and I couldn’t see anything so thought maybe I’d imagined it.
Then about an hour later she came in again and was holding the mostly shut, also trying to wash it a lot.
This is from a video screenshot but you get the idea
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Clearly not right so I called our local vets who said could I get there for 12? I said not in 15 minutes unless I drive like a lunatic so they said come in as soon as you can.
Madam wasn’t having that and promptly hid way under the bed, so 15 minutes was lost trying to coax her out - in the end I had to shove a live hoover under there so she ran into the hall.
At the vet’s, the vet, or she may have been a nurse, applied dyes and a local anaesthetic and had a good look and said she could see an ulcer but couldn’t see any foreign body.
But then she looked again and a third time and said she was convinced there might be a tiny bit of thorn in there or something.
So same day referral to another local vet that is an eye specialist, but about another 45 minutes drive.
2.30 appointment though and we got there at 2, so a short wait.
That vet looked with a bigger eye machine, said there was a ‘significant’ wound in her eye and also thought it might need a stitch.
Anyway, they took her out back to sedate her and look with an even more powerful machine and the result was nothing in the eye but a longish shallow wound in the cornea with ragged edges, that he trimmed back to leave a ‘smooth’ ulcer.
Petplan will be several hundred lighter and she’s back home now, still very wonky from the drugs, poor thing.
What’s freaking me out is she needs eye drops THREE times a day followed by gel five minutes after.
Managed one eye drop this evening but she wasn’t happy, no chance to catch her and do the gel right now.
Anyone know how vital these drops are? The vet seemed to think very much so and we’ll try, but I won’t have any assistance during the day and can only think a towel wrap will be needed.
She’s not aggressive at all but constantly wiggles to get away and I’m just not sure what the answer is 😥
I couldn’t get a proper look as she wanted to play, but she did look right at me with both eyes open and I couldn’t see anything so thought maybe I’d imagined it.
Then about an hour later she came in again and was holding the mostly shut, also trying to wash it a lot.
This is from a video screenshot but you get the idea
Clearly not right so I called our local vets who said could I get there for 12? I said not in 15 minutes unless I drive like a lunatic so they said come in as soon as you can.
Madam wasn’t having that and promptly hid way under the bed, so 15 minutes was lost trying to coax her out - in the end I had to shove a live hoover under there so she ran into the hall.
At the vet’s, the vet, or she may have been a nurse, applied dyes and a local anaesthetic and had a good look and said she could see an ulcer but couldn’t see any foreign body.
But then she looked again and a third time and said she was convinced there might be a tiny bit of thorn in there or something.
So same day referral to another local vet that is an eye specialist, but about another 45 minutes drive.
2.30 appointment though and we got there at 2, so a short wait.
That vet looked with a bigger eye machine, said there was a ‘significant’ wound in her eye and also thought it might need a stitch.
Anyway, they took her out back to sedate her and look with an even more powerful machine and the result was nothing in the eye but a longish shallow wound in the cornea with ragged edges, that he trimmed back to leave a ‘smooth’ ulcer.
Petplan will be several hundred lighter and she’s back home now, still very wonky from the drugs, poor thing.
What’s freaking me out is she needs eye drops THREE times a day followed by gel five minutes after.
Managed one eye drop this evening but she wasn’t happy, no chance to catch her and do the gel right now.
Anyone know how vital these drops are? The vet seemed to think very much so and we’ll try, but I won’t have any assistance during the day and can only think a towel wrap will be needed.
She’s not aggressive at all but constantly wiggles to get away and I’m just not sure what the answer is 😥
