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My poor doggie is having eye surgery again today. She is having her other eye removed so she will be completely blind. We’ve been trying to save this eye since September, when the other one was removed, but we have not succeeded. Please send out good thoughts and healing vibes so she has a quick recovery and adapts well without her eyes. Thank you!
Thank you all so much for the warm thoughts and suggestions! It is greatly appreciated and really helped me feel better!! She had a pretty good night last night and seems to be feeling a little better this morning. Thankfully, my husband and I both have amazing bosses who will let us work from home so we can be with her and reassure her these first few rough days.
Count me as another one rooting for and praying for your doggie! I’m sure with such caring parents as you & your husband seem to be, she’ll do well!
A coworker of mine has a husky that also has no eyes, named Tempest, which is your screen name, so that’s interesting! I’ve met Tempest a couple of times and he is great. Of course I imagine your dog does kinda need to be babied at first, but just make sure she doesn’t become TOO sheltered! Blind dogs may startle more easily and not be as easily approachable by other people, but if she continues being taken places and sometimes being petted by people other than you & your husband she can remain quite a social dog! (If she is one! I don’t know what her lifestyle is like with you.)
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Thank you for asking! She is doing pretty well and looks to be healing well. I’m so glad my husband found this eye specialist. The surgery site is less swollen and looks better than the last surgery and she is already acting like her normal silly self. She doesn’t seem to be in too much pain and she’s definitely more comfortable than before the surgery. It amazes me how quickly animals can adjust to something like this and we’re so happy she’s doing so well!
One of our dogs went blind; she could still find the sun, though! I wish we could have found a way to plug her in, because that dog would probably have generated enough solar energy to power the house.
I think she was able to see differences in lighting for a while, but eventually, she was completely blind. Honestly, the only “downside” was that she wouldn’t eat as neatly – she would drop some food, and since she didn’t see it, she would leave it. Otherwise, she knew where everything was (since we didn’t move anything around), cuddled, filled her batteries in sunlight, wagged her tail, basically didn’t really change at all.
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmGlad to hear your dog is doing so well. I had a Yorkie that was blind from glaucoma during the last 5 years of his life and I was amazed at how well he adapted to the loss of eyesight. The vet told me that dog’s other senses become more acute to compensate for the loss of one sense. And, after seeing him tear around the house narrowly dodging obstacles, I would have to agree.
Glad to hear she’s doing well!
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"COSMIC SHIFT DRAGONS and KI-RINS" and the "OCTOPUS TANUKI TEST PAINT #1"I am glad your doggie is doing so well. I had a chow that developed glaucoma at age 5. She lost sight in the first eye almost immediately and later on that eye had to be removed because of the pain it was causing her. She was so stuck on her looks I knew she would know she looked different so the Vets at UK – Manhattan, KS put a glass eye in her. It looked just like her own. About 18 months later she lost the sight in the second eye which the vets at UK-Manhattan said was a record. She adjusted very well to blindness. She listened to everything I told her. An example was if she had to go up or down stairs I would tell her stairs ahead and she would start feeling for them. As we went up or down I would tell her up or down at each step and then say OK we are here and it worked out fine. She lived to be a little over 12 when I lost her to cancer but she always seems to get along OK.
You guys are so sweet! You really made me feel better when I was freaking out about this surgery. It’s more common than I thought and I appreciate all the stories and helpful tips. She got her stitches out last week and is doing really well. She knows the layout of the apartment so well that the only thing she runs into is us. She does really well on the stairs. I tell her about them before she gets to them but I don’t think my husband does and she seems to do fine either way. She actually seems a lot more energetic so I think the eye was bothering her a lot but she’s back to her old self now 🙂
I hope she’s doing well – sounds like it from all of the updates. 🙂
I interned at a veterinary ophthalmologist last summer and saw many amazing things. Animals are really quite amazing when it comes to loss of eyesight and their eyes. If the eye was causing them pain (I saw a lot of glaucoma out there), it really makes such a difference to have the eye removed – it is truly amazing to see how much better they feel once the pain of intraocular pressure is gone. We actually had one client send us a video of a patient of ours a few weeks later — the dog was playing fetch again after she hadn’t in years.
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