For those of you following her story, Flowerbelle is going to have her left eye removed. Several weeks ago I posted an update, and many of you encouraged us just to have the eye out because of all the stress of medication. She saw the eye specialist, who said there was nothing more to do for her than our vet was already doing.
He wanted to give stitching her inner eyelid closed with medication behind it one more time. She had the stitches out this morning - and there was some improvement, but not much. So we scheduled the appointment. We may have to change it to the following Monday because of our work schedule, but right now she's scheduled to have it removed Friday the 19th. She'll have to spend the night at the hospital.
Because she's had the inner eyelid stitched up, blocking her sight these past few weeks, we can safely say that even if she'd had some vision out of the eye (despite the "blisters" from the Herpes virus), not having any vision out of it didn't affect her in the least. She's always appeared to have trouble with her depth perception, and she's always had trouble following things that move quickly - and we see no noticeable difference between when the eye is open with meds and when the eyelid was stitched closed.
So lovely little Flowerbelle will stop having an ugly "weeping" eye, and she will not be subjected to further meds (seven times a day in the eye) and eye-gunk cleaning (at least once a day).
We really struggled to keep the eye - but we feel so relieved to finally have an end to all of this, and we're comfortable with the decision. I think our little ray of sunshine (or the whirling tornado) is going to be GREATLY relieved soon!!!!!!!!!!!!
He wanted to give stitching her inner eyelid closed with medication behind it one more time. She had the stitches out this morning - and there was some improvement, but not much. So we scheduled the appointment. We may have to change it to the following Monday because of our work schedule, but right now she's scheduled to have it removed Friday the 19th. She'll have to spend the night at the hospital.
Because she's had the inner eyelid stitched up, blocking her sight these past few weeks, we can safely say that even if she'd had some vision out of the eye (despite the "blisters" from the Herpes virus), not having any vision out of it didn't affect her in the least. She's always appeared to have trouble with her depth perception, and she's always had trouble following things that move quickly - and we see no noticeable difference between when the eye is open with meds and when the eyelid was stitched closed.
So lovely little Flowerbelle will stop having an ugly "weeping" eye, and she will not be subjected to further meds (seven times a day in the eye) and eye-gunk cleaning (at least once a day).
We really struggled to keep the eye - but we feel so relieved to finally have an end to all of this, and we're comfortable with the decision. I think our little ray of sunshine (or the whirling tornado) is going to be GREATLY relieved soon!!!!!!!!!!!!