Last night I noticed that Sylvester's left eye, the one that he has the Uveitis in, wasn't opening all the way at times, but we saw some white stains around it and figured it was from the Prednisone drop that Deb gives him every night so we didn't put any in last night but instead put in "Refresh" to soothe his eye. Well, this morning it looked worse, mostly closed and had a clear discharge, so he had to go to get checked so we took him to the "Emergency" vet where his opthomalogist is even though she wasn't there, we figured if there were any issues they could talk to her and describe it if needed which they did call her, and they were bombarded with emergencies, several people we know had their pets put down as we saw them crying when they were leaving so it was not a pleasant day, we spent 9.5 hours there and they told us that he has an ulcer on his eye, would give us antibiotic drops to put in but that the opthomalogist (who actually runs the practice we found out today) will be in tomorrow so instead of bringing him home we decided to let them keep him overnight, they are open 24 hours a day everyday so he will be observed, let her look at him and make sure they are doing the correct thing because it is VERY hard to get in to see her, and we should be able to bring him home tomorrow most likely with an E-collar on, he's never had that but they don't want him to scratch his eye but I will talk to her tomorrow about that, we never had a cat wear one so we'll see, but the little guy for some reason developed an ulcer although she said it is superficial so we caught it early, and I think I remember her telling us months ago that sometimes they do develop these along with the Uveitis, and the tech tonight told us that a lot of times they happen even without trauma, so we just have to treat it and go from there, and I'm glad that we got him in right away although we lived there for the day!
I miss him already, and after losing Sabrina and Sugar recently this is just added stress that we don't need, but they'll take care of him....
I miss him already, and after losing Sabrina and Sugar recently this is just added stress that we don't need, but they'll take care of him....