Phinehas and Malachi health issues - confirmed diagnoses: herpes virus in the eye

**Medusa** · 02-13-2009, 02:20 PM

Goodness, I'm sorry to read about Malachi's eye and I do hope that you vet is able to give him (and you) some relief soon. Keep the faythe.

**wolflady** · 02-13-2009, 05:01 PM

I ended up calling Adobe and they wanted me to bring him in for an emergency recheck (which was double the cost of a regular appointment) since they were concerned about the blood but were apparently all booked up with scheduled appointments.
His eye looks terrible, you can't even see his eye because the membrane is so swollen. They put an e-collar on him because perhaps he had scratched his eye which caused the bleeding. This seems like a really serious case of who-knows-what (originally they thought it was chlamydia, but now they're not so sure and they're treating him for everything), so now we're going to also be putting the poor thing on 2 types of anti-viral medications (which also costs a fortune

) along with everything else he's taking. I have to pick those up at a compounding (??) pharmacy tomorrow. They also wanted me to schedule a recheck for an animal eye specialist since we couldn't even tell today if his eye is damaged.

God, I swear I feel like a made a huge mistake bringing him home. I just wanted to do something nice for my Phinehas since I'm gone all day and orientals are such social cats and crave companionship. I thought it would be easier when I go on vacation for him to have a buddy. I just don't understand why this is all happening...

**jenluckenbach** · 02-13-2009, 06:41 PM

Oh my, this is all so sad. I don't even know what to say except I do know how it feels when everything goes wrong at once.

Hang in there, when this is all a distant memory you can go back to just having fun with your babies.

{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}

**krazyaboutkatz** · 02-14-2009, 01:26 AM

Karen, I'm shocked to hear this latest bad news.

After I talked to you last night I felt sure that his eyes would get better very quickly.

In the back of my mind I was thinking that if you had to bring him in again I sure hoped that you wouldn't have to be referred to an eye specialist too.

I went through this with Ziggy and I had to travel quite a ways and it was very expensive. Luckily her eye turned out to be just fine.

I'm surprised to hear that you have to go to a compounding pharmacy to pick up his meds. I've had meds compounded at Adobe before so I thought that they could compound just about everything.

I'm so sorry that everything is going wrong all at once with your cats.

I can relate to this because I went through so many things with poor Starr. Things will eventually get better. I'll call you tomorrow. Take care. (((HUGS)))