It’s Monday, and we made it through the weekend. Cami’s eye is still nicely sutured closed, and we’re still doing medications many times a day. Her recheck exam with Dr. Wolf is Thursday- keep your fingers crossed!!!
PS- Fashion dictates the use of something other than that Elizabethan collar (the cone of shame), so we are trying Doggles. Aren’t they cute?!
I can't see a thing in these!!!
Did you hear about Hernando County Animal Services mistakingly euthanizing a cat that was there for rabies quarrantine, instead of the one that was brought there for that. The owners of the quarrantined cat came to pick him up, and the shelter people said oops. Apparently, this happens more frequently than we know.
Moral of this story- keep your pets vaccines current!!!
Well, 2 rechecks later, and her eye still looks awful, but apparently is healing. The problem is that Dr. Wolf (the ophthalmologist) says that the healing is going very slow now, and her cornea is shaped like a protruding ice cream cone, and it is going to stay that way if it heals.
Of course I freaked! A MORE protruding eye than her Pekingese-self already has! That’s an accident just begging to happen again- isn’t there something that we can do?
Dr. Wolf said that to help flatten the cornea as it heals, he would recommend suturing her eyelids shut (temporarily) so that the pressure keeps it flatter, and healing speeds up (hopefully).
So that’s what we did- Cami had that surgery on Wednesday afternoon. You really can’t believe that drama from Cami- the IV catheter placement was akin to a leg amputation in her mind- she was REALLY MISBEHAVING for such a small thing. Surgery went well though, and very fast. She looked terrible, but wasn’t painful and for that I was happy. Unfortunately, the next day, the sutures had loosened and her eye was exposed some- NOT GOOD. So guess what? Yep, back to surgery to have the sutures re-done—so again with the DRAMA! This time, Dr. Ernest did the procedure (Cami really likes her best anyway).
Today, all is well. Sutures are holding, Cami is eating, but she is grouchy. Not that I can blame her, I would be, too. Actually, I kind of am. I wish this were over, but only with a healed eye!
I don’t know how many of you know about my little dog, Cami, getting in a tussle with Dr. Ernest’s dog, Bizbe, and Cami injuring her right eye. Since we were at the clinic when it happened, Cami of course received immediate treatment from Dr. Ernest and all seemed to be healing well by the end of the week. That’s when it took an ugly turn–
Over the weekend, Cami’s eye became much worse, but looked very different than it did at the injury. Upon rushing her to the veterinary ophthalmologist (Dr. Dan Wolf - he’s the best really- trust me I have had to utilize his advice and service alot!!!) apparently she had developed an infection UNDER the healed tissue in her eye. Her cornea was MELTING from the inside and she could lose her eye! To do our best to avoid such a tragic end, Dr. Wolf started her on 5 eye medications and I had to put them in her eye 5 minutes apart every hour AROUND the CLOCK!!! She also had to wear one of those hard plastic elizabethean collar (soft one wasn’t allowed)- UGH, a fashion nightmare!!!!
Needless to say- she and I are both exhausted- we’ve had no sleep for days. The good news is that on her first follow-up, she seems to be healing although a corneal graft surgery is still likely. On the bad side he added more medicines. Her next follow-up is Friday, so I’ll keep you posted…,
Melting ulcer
Well since Lotus’ egg wasn’t fertile, but we didn’t want her to keep laying more, we let her nest with it for the approximate incubation period for Macaws (between 25-28 days). So, last weekend we removed the egg… Lotus seemed okay with that. I guess she was over the whole mother going nowhere bit! She’s now back to her normal self- screaming, talking, chewing up things and overall craziness. (’Kinda wish she still had her egg- she was quiet then).
