Enucleated eye problems

My 12-year old calico had her right eye ennuclilated (surgically removed) on Tuesday.   They had to cone her, and Wednesday night she managed to pull the cone off.  I made a harness and now to get it off, she would have to have hands to undo the buckles and such.

My question is, the eye is weeping a small bit of fluid in one spot.  How common is this?  Will she have to be stitched up again or will it scab over and stop oozing?  I would ask my vet, but she is closed until Monday.

Let me try to find a member that has gone thru this procedure.

Have you called the vet's office even though it's closed? Some have an answering service for emergencies. I don't THINK this is an emergency, but I'd want to ask if it's OK.

Our Flowerbelle had to have her eye removed. But that was in March of 2004, and I just don't remember if her eye wept after the surgery. I asked Gary, and he doesn't remember either. I would think it's normal - it's not bloody, and not a lot, right? I'm pretty sure that it's normal for surgical wounds to weep - and I think especially with the eye it would be normal. I definitely do not remember using anything to clean up her eye though. She did not fiddle with it, and we didn't use a cone.

I'm so sorry my memory fails me!

Oh, yeah. That's how I was sure they were closed.   The nearest ER for pets is 75 miles each way.  Around here, the rednecks just shoot their sick animals and dump them in a brush burn pile.   The weeping seems to stop most of the time and it looks like the corner of the eye is scabbing over.

Thank you to all.
 

Hey, how are you doing.

Enucleated. 

Scritch Sugar and Spice for me!
 

Yes, Mr Teacher.  Make me write it 500 times.   Tilly is doing better, but I am still keeping a close watch on her.   I will skritch S&S and Sheba says what about her.   It is amazing what only 3 hours of sleep a night will do for your spelling.
 

Please post a photo of Tilly with her conehead.

How's she doing today? :cross:

I just talked to CatsPaw, and he says she isn't showing any signs of distress, eating well, using the litter box fine when he puts her in it, but a small spot of the eyelid is weeping a blood-tinged fluid occasionally.

By the way, before anyone thinks I'm mistreating some random member, CatsPaw66 is my brother who lives in Arkansas.
 

So glad to hear she's doing fine. Again, I expect this is normal. I think a call to the vet Monday is a good idea and something obviously he'd be doing anyway.

Thanks for the update.

Oh, yes, the phone will start ringing at the vet at 9:01 tomorrow morning.

The eye looks worse than it is.  The stuff you see is the fluid that weeped out in 2 days.  I haven't touched it in case it would open more.
 

Suggest you ring the vet who operated when they are next open and take their advice.

As planned in my last post, I called the vet at 8:51 this morning and described what was happening. She told me that a little oozing is fairly normal, to gently clean around (not in) the eye with  H2O2 and just check on her fairly often.....As I was logging on, she went into the litter box and did a good whiz. Silly aka Tilly, Tilly Twit, etc. has an appointment next Wednesday to have the stiches out.

mrblanche said:

I just talked to CatsPaw, and he says she isn't showing any signs of distress, eating well, using the litter box fine when he puts her in it, but a small spot of the eyelid is weeping a blood-tinged fluid occasionally.

By the way, before anyone thinks I'm mistreating some random member, CatsPaw66 is my brother who lives in Arkansas.
 

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You just had to out me, didn't you..   BTW the 66 part of the name is a tribute and memorial to The Mother Road, old Route 66, that is almost all gone forever.

Hope the vet reassured you, and hope all goes well next week.  Did you ask her what any bad signs to watch out for are?

Well, given Mike was asking about your other kitties without your having mentioned them, it was rather apparent you two know each other. :lol3:

Glad you got the answer - hope it cleans up without too much trouble!

Yes, Sugar and Spice and Sheba were all adopted in Texas by him and given to me at Christmas the last two years to help me deal with losing Psy, Patches and Bright Eyes.  As far as asking about bad signs to watch out for, I think that I covered all possible problems, twice at least.

I took an enlargement of the picture of her fact to the vet and showed her that.

Update on Silly.  She is eating the soft food like a pig, and is eating some of the dry in the bowl.  She is trying to groom, but can't get at any part because of the cone, so she licks that and my face when I offer it.  She is floating up to the bed better than in quite a while.  I am cleaning her as needed and brushing her several times a day.  She purrs up a storm and stretches out her head so I can scratch her chin.

More updates will follow.

Have you tried taking off the cone? Does she mess with the eye? We were lucky - Flowerbelle didn't.

So glad she's doing so well! Continued vibes

BTW - what happened that she had to have it removed? Flowerbelle's was due to damage from herpes infection that wouldn't heal.

Flowerbelle:

The vet said to leave the cone on her until her appiontment on the 16th.  She can't reach the eye to scratch at it.  In fact, she cant reach much except the end of her tail.

Yes, it was feline herpes.  She was being treated for it, but damaged it beyond repair.

I love the picture of Flowerbelle.  You caught the light just right to show her inner spirit