08-18-2017, 10:50 AM
Halvah is now at the vet ophthalmologist, about to go under the knife. The surgeon will be trying to take a graft of healthy cornea tissue in the periphery and use it to plug the central hole. If all goes well, we'll be bringing her home later in the day.
But she'll be in a cone for two weeks, and will need meds on a very regular around-the-clock schedule that vet lodging does not offer. The ophthalmologist said it might be possible to throw money at the the vet to get the extra lodging attention. But considering what this is costing, and the cost of work on Lady Cranefly's car (in the shop), I'm thinking one of us needs to stay home and take care of her there. I'm volunteering.
The ophthalmologist said that our lapses in giving her vitamins did not lead to this; the eye has had a longstanding problem for years, with the cornea tissue getting ever thinner, and eventually it was going to become problematic. This is the time.
It's possible the eye could have been treated earlier in some other way to avoid this, but we didn't know that.
But she'll be in a cone for two weeks, and will need meds on a very regular around-the-clock schedule that vet lodging does not offer. The ophthalmologist said it might be possible to throw money at the the vet to get the extra lodging attention. But considering what this is costing, and the cost of work on Lady Cranefly's car (in the shop), I'm thinking one of us needs to stay home and take care of her there. I'm volunteering.
The ophthalmologist said that our lapses in giving her vitamins did not lead to this; the eye has had a longstanding problem for years, with the cornea tissue getting ever thinner, and eventually it was going to become problematic. This is the time.
It's possible the eye could have been treated earlier in some other way to avoid this, but we didn't know that.