Hello everyone,
Few months ago a band of five kittens came into our yard, one of them had a missing eye, so I began to feed her and eventually she ended up staying in our garden.
About a month ago I took her to a veterinarian infirmary and they suggested to perform a surgery on the missing eye (stitching it close). I agreed, and so they performed the surgery and gave her the required vaccines.
I also have been prescribed to give her antibiotics for a 8 days after the surgery (to deal with any infection that has occurred), which I did.
Everything was fine, she was always active, running, playing, happy until about two weeks ago the eye that has been stitched shut became infected. So i retook her to the infirmary. There she went through another surgery.
However it was clear to me within a couple of days that she had vision problems. She became less playful than she was, moving carefully and fixed large eye pupil size. (I don't know if it's a total blindness but she sure has severe vision problem - my estimation is that she's over 90% blind)
So I took her to the infirmary for the third time, there they even consulted a cat eye specialist. After that they told me that the second surgery may have hit the nerves in the other eye and prescribed antibiotics(for infection) as well as some steroids (prednisone) to give her with the food.
I have been giving her the treatment for about a week with little to no improvement.
(I'm scheduled to take her again this weekend)
I suspect that what she has is an optic nerve (neuritis/inflammation/swelling) , which all -based on some googling- require the same treatment the vets prescribed more or less.
My father is a human doctor and he says that it can take weeks or even months to heal from this. (not sure if this applies to cats though)
Has anyone had such an experience with their cat? Do you think this will heal (with treatment)? If so how long should it take and how soon should I see SOME improvement?
There is also this thing that's been bothering me is that the cat haven't been spayed yet.
And I'm sure she can't handle mating in her condition. However she already went under 2 surgeries -with general anesthesia- in less than a month. So -based on that- do you think it is safe to spay her anytime soon? And if So when?
One final thing to note though, she is a semi feral/stray cat and isn't comfortable indoors, So taking her indoors is not an option, however she stays in our yard and doesn't leave it after the second surgery. And she isn't comfortable people holding/touching her either, therefore every time I take her to the vet is I put some food in the travel cage and shut the door behind her.
I apologize for the long writing, I'm just very VERY concerned for her.
Any advice/help would be highly appreciated.
Few months ago a band of five kittens came into our yard, one of them had a missing eye, so I began to feed her and eventually she ended up staying in our garden.
About a month ago I took her to a veterinarian infirmary and they suggested to perform a surgery on the missing eye (stitching it close). I agreed, and so they performed the surgery and gave her the required vaccines.
I also have been prescribed to give her antibiotics for a 8 days after the surgery (to deal with any infection that has occurred), which I did.
Everything was fine, she was always active, running, playing, happy until about two weeks ago the eye that has been stitched shut became infected. So i retook her to the infirmary. There she went through another surgery.
However it was clear to me within a couple of days that she had vision problems. She became less playful than she was, moving carefully and fixed large eye pupil size. (I don't know if it's a total blindness but she sure has severe vision problem - my estimation is that she's over 90% blind)
So I took her to the infirmary for the third time, there they even consulted a cat eye specialist. After that they told me that the second surgery may have hit the nerves in the other eye and prescribed antibiotics(for infection) as well as some steroids (prednisone) to give her with the food.
I have been giving her the treatment for about a week with little to no improvement.
(I'm scheduled to take her again this weekend)
I suspect that what she has is an optic nerve (neuritis/inflammation/swelling) , which all -based on some googling- require the same treatment the vets prescribed more or less.
My father is a human doctor and he says that it can take weeks or even months to heal from this. (not sure if this applies to cats though)
Has anyone had such an experience with their cat? Do you think this will heal (with treatment)? If so how long should it take and how soon should I see SOME improvement?
There is also this thing that's been bothering me is that the cat haven't been spayed yet.
And I'm sure she can't handle mating in her condition. However she already went under 2 surgeries -with general anesthesia- in less than a month. So -based on that- do you think it is safe to spay her anytime soon? And if So when?
One final thing to note though, she is a semi feral/stray cat and isn't comfortable indoors, So taking her indoors is not an option, however she stays in our yard and doesn't leave it after the second surgery. And she isn't comfortable people holding/touching her either, therefore every time I take her to the vet is I put some food in the travel cage and shut the door behind her.
I apologize for the long writing, I'm just very VERY concerned for her.
Any advice/help would be highly appreciated.
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