Penny is sick... (Updated 30th October - Page 3)

[cloverfdx]

Thanks for all the good thoughts everyone!!

Penny went back to our vets this morning and stayed for a good hour or so, we got a call about midday saying we had to take her down to Melbourne (about 1 1/2 hours away) for possible emergency surgery... our vet saw what she thought was the lense of Penny's eye torn away so sent us off to an eye specialist .

It turned out being a very severe cataract and her body has had a reaction to it and her eye is quite inflamed, we have drops for her long term that need to be givin once a day and we need to call back to the specialist's in about 2 weeks to let them know if the swelling and irritation has lessened any. And to see if her other eye has gotton any worse (Start of another cataract).. if the other eye has worsened then we will organise to have both eyes operated on.

So heres hoping the other eye stays the same and the swelling goes down.... and we can get some weight back on to the little girl .

[captain]

Rhi,

Which vet did you have to bring Penny to in Melbourne?
HUGS for you and her that the drops work .....

[cloverfdx]

Michelle it is Animal Eye Care , they have a clinic at Weribee every thursday.. i cannot remember what street the other clinic we went to is in .

Penny is doing ok, still plodding along, eating/ drinking when prompted etc. She is going back to our vets on Monday and may be started on some different drops as these ones have not kicked in yet.

http://www.vch.unimelb.edu.au/group.php?groupID=554