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Look At My Retinas Now!

November 6, 2017

Earlier in October we took our new arrival, Daisy, to see our veterinary ophthalmologist in Burlington, Dr. Sarah Hoy. As a result of her diabetes, Daisy had a nice pair of cataracts, though she could still see enough to navigate without running into too much. We wanted to find out if she was a candidate for cataract surgery.

Dr. Hoy found that Daisy had 70% opacity in her lenses, so she didn’t have far to go before blindness would really set it. The ERG (electroretinogram) results showed her retinas were working fine, and she scored well on eye pressure and other measures, so she was definitely a candidate for surgery!

A week later, Dr. Hoy performed the surgery, and everything went as well as could be expected.

I took that photo above several days after the operation. Those shining orbs in her eyes are the retinas reflecting back the camera flash. You could not have seen those before!

Daisy was a model patient, easily tolerating all the post-op daily rounds of eye drops (three different medications, multiple times a day). I took Daisy back to the eye clinic for her first re-check last week, and Dr. Hoy was very happy with how her eyes looked. At one point during the exam, Dr. Hoy turned to me and said, “Perfect!”

Today, the cone is off and the little scamp is busy running around the house, being the boss of us! (I think we’ve seen this movie before!)

Comments

  1. Barb Ribinski says

    November 6, 2017 at 12:55 pm

    What wonderful news! She’s so adorable to begin with. You just want to pick her up and hug her. She seems like one happy girl. She’s so lucky to be with all her new friends there are the farm.

  2. Tonya Allen says

    November 6, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    That’s a beautiful sight! I was just re-reading the dramatic story of her first day with you. She is one lucky girl. She’s so cute in the cone, but I’m sure she’s glad to be out of it now!

  3. Collen & sweet kitty Andre says

    November 6, 2017 at 2:08 pm

    Fantastic! She’s probably so happy to see who she is bossing around.

  4. Shirley and James says

    November 7, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    Love your work and dedication. Thank you. Yay Daisy.

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