Ever since I got my min pin 6 years ago I ALWAYS told people something was not right with her left eye.
It would change colors sometimes (blue to green leaving her right eye blue and her left eye green) and the inside of her eye often had what literally looked like a diamond in it.
My friends would look at it and be like "NO WAY, that is so fvcking cool, I've never seen anything like it before blah blah".
And over the years I noticed sometimes at night, she'd walk into things like a dope, and rub her left eye, but it was never so much where I did anything but make fun of her.
Well recently she’s been pooping blood, vomiting, just not acting like her usual self. Everyone is saying she might have swallowed a bone that’s in her system, maybe a bird, maybe cancer, EVERYTHING but the one thing I have been saying for years and joking about.
We EVEN took her to the vet 4 years ago and I told the fvcking vet "look at her left eye". She thought it was odd, put some fluorescing dye in it and said it might be PRA, but I don’t think it is, (progressive retinal atrophy) try this steroid cream and see if she stops rubbing it.
Well she did stop rubbing it. And the vet later said is was most likely nothing.
Today years later, I tell the doctor again while my families telling her "maybe you check her stools, check her temp, do a blood test etc".
And I say “HER EYEE! LOOK AT HER EYEEEE!!!”
Doctor finally takes her in the back and runs some proper tests.
Comes out and says “It really is reading bad on the pressure test”
Long story short:
We take her to a doggy optometrist at the emergency room in another hospital at this doctors recommendation. I’m thinking ok, we just need to get it treated with some cream again so it goes away.
30mins pass and doc comes out.
“Your dog has been blind since she was born in that eye, she has a 103 degree fever, is prob suffering from immense pain and has been for a while, meds won’t help, and the eye needs to be removed immediately” (to keep it short)
That’s why shes pooping blood and vomiting. It has also led to secondary glaucoma but was originally a genetic thing.
The crazy part, this dog has ALWAYS been the happiest high spirited dog I ever had. My favorite pet in the world. I take her running and she’s in excellent shape, muscles on her legs, always were people complimenting her.
And it sucks now, tomorrow she’s going in to get her eye enucleated and sewn shut. As long as doctors say she was in pain and there’s no other choice I’m fine with it. Its crazy when the doctor was saying the retinal pressure is 60, then 18 in her good eye, and once you get around 40 or 50 its a SERIOUS problem. That the amount of pain her reading was would basically feel to a human like your eyes about to pop.
But she hasn’t even been rubbing it lately, and it didn’t really look like anything serious at all.
That’s what really made me feel bad. Like WOW, out of everything I did for this dog, all my attempts to give her a great doggy life (her names Happy lol) I can’t believe no one could tell she was in so much pain.
She never acted like it, but the doctor said animals have a weird way of learning to tolerate things. I’m not sad about the eye coming out, it sucks. Its just crazy that out of all the trips to the vet, not one doctor had really looked at the eye like it should have till today. I would find ticks on my dog 10 seconds after they were on her because I was always paying attention to her and worried something could happen.
Really just shocking.
Anyone else have any dogs who went though anything like this? How are they now? Thanks - Bo
This is what it looked like when it was good.
Couldn't even tell she was blind.
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