Posted by Dinah on April 3, 2004, at 13:42:28
In reply to Re: I hope today goes well. » Dinah, posted by All Done on April 3, 2004, at 9:10:49
The bad news is that she will probably never regain her sight. She developed an acute onset thick cataract. Which is totally unrelated to her previous eye problems, but because of her previous problems and the inflammation in her eye surgery isn't an option. We're going to give it a month and check it out again before deciding for sure.
The good news is that the doctor helped me feel more positive about her new, different, life. I'm afraid she'll never be comfortably part of the gang again, but he said they generally adjust to sudden onset blindness in a month or so. Maybe a bit longer because her hearing is also not good. And she seems to have gotten less aggressive with the other dogs, not more, so maybe everything will work out ok.
The bad news is that a dog doesn't generally develop a thick sudden onset cataract for no reason. So he's checking out other health problems like diabetes. And the other other bad news is that she's probably having some pain and he didn't see many options to stop that.
So I guess we'll wait a month and see. And treat the diabetes if she has it.
And she does seem a bit less frightened and disoriented, I think.
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