Cathryn
Well-known member
Hi!
As you will recall my beautiful Princess recently had a very nasty eye ulcer and was also diagnosed as having Dry Eye?
Well we went back to visit the vet yesterday and it was initially Good News as her tear production is well up and the ulcer is practically gone!
Then came the bombshell, Princess has developed Glaucoma in her infected eye, she has a lot of built up pressure in her eye, this is pressing down on her optic nerve and could possibly cost her the sight in this eye. The big problem really is we do not know how long the pressure has been there for. So we were given yet more drops to put in every 3 hours, both my OH and I got up in the night so there would not be a break in the medication and give her the best chance.
I had to take her back to see Ian this morning to see how good a response we are getting in terms of getting the pressure down in her eye. I must state right now I have no idea what a "normal" figure is for the pressure, but yesterday her pressure 53-55 and I am very happy to tell you that this morning it was 31-33, so considerably down thankfully. We are to carry on with this treatment over the weekend and then drop the doses to 4 per day, if her eye starts to redden up again (Pressure increasing) then straight back to the vets for another pressure test. We go back to see Ian on the 14th and will discuss if she needs to be referred to the opthalmolgy clinic for an ultrasound scan at that time!
Princess is Darcy's Momma, I would be delighted if he could qualify for Crufts tomorrow first time out to honour his brave little Momma, that really would be a dream come true!
Will keep you updated on her progress.
As you will recall my beautiful Princess recently had a very nasty eye ulcer and was also diagnosed as having Dry Eye?
Well we went back to visit the vet yesterday and it was initially Good News as her tear production is well up and the ulcer is practically gone!
Then came the bombshell, Princess has developed Glaucoma in her infected eye, she has a lot of built up pressure in her eye, this is pressing down on her optic nerve and could possibly cost her the sight in this eye. The big problem really is we do not know how long the pressure has been there for. So we were given yet more drops to put in every 3 hours, both my OH and I got up in the night so there would not be a break in the medication and give her the best chance.
I had to take her back to see Ian this morning to see how good a response we are getting in terms of getting the pressure down in her eye. I must state right now I have no idea what a "normal" figure is for the pressure, but yesterday her pressure 53-55 and I am very happy to tell you that this morning it was 31-33, so considerably down thankfully. We are to carry on with this treatment over the weekend and then drop the doses to 4 per day, if her eye starts to redden up again (Pressure increasing) then straight back to the vets for another pressure test. We go back to see Ian on the 14th and will discuss if she needs to be referred to the opthalmolgy clinic for an ultrasound scan at that time!
Princess is Darcy's Momma, I would be delighted if he could qualify for Crufts tomorrow first time out to honour his brave little Momma, that really would be a dream come true!
Will keep you updated on her progress.