bad news

[ratcreature]

I'm just back from the vet and the odd discoloration is either a tumor or an abscess inside Krümel's eye. If it is an abscess there is some chance antibiotics might help, so I got an oral antibiotic to give once a day, and antibiotic eyedrops I need to use five times a day, and also an oral painkiller, because apparently this kind of thing is painful for him too. I need to go in again Monday for another check in their regular hours, though I ought to come in tomorrow during their emergency hours again should his condition worsen. Despite giving me antibiotics, the vet seemed to think it quite likely that they'll have to remove Krümel's left eye. :(

Of course I hope for a best case scenario, i.e. that the antibiotics simply work, but barring that I hope it's at least really confined to his eye. I mean, he can still have a long and happy life with one eye, after all, and he's in good health otherwise, only a year old (his first birthday was December 2nd), so he has good chances with the operation risks and recovery and such. It still sucks so much. :(

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[ratcreature]

Thanks. *hugs back*

(Things happening to eyes always have an extra layer of freaky.)

That is very true.

For myself I'm actually more afraid of eye exams than of dentist visits, even ones with a root canal. I wish it was still an option for adults not to be conscious through them, like it was when I was a small kid. (One of my earliest memories is of anesthesia preparations for eye exams when I was a toddler, but once you are a school kid or older they pretty much expect you to cooperate without fuss.) I know that when I had to be operated on my retina to get a hole fixed a while back, I picked the full anesthesia over the option with a local and a sedative without question. I'm still baffled why anyone would choose to be conscious while someone else pulls their eyeball out of its socket, and does medical procedures on the backside. Just no. It's just too freaky to be awake for, whether you feel it or not.

[minnow1212.livejournal.com]

>I'm still baffled why anyone would choose to be conscious while someone else pulls their eyeball out of its socket, and does medical procedures on the backside.<

....ew ew ew ew ew ew ew EW!

[ratcreature]

That was exactly my thought! They talked to me about risks of full anesthesia and that there was an option to do this with a local (right after they explained the gross details of all the steps they would be doing to my eye which in my case among other stuff actually involved *sewing*), and I was like "I don't care about the anesthesia risks, I want to be really, really unconscious for all of this."

[girlwithoutfear.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on being out for the count while they mess with my eyes. When they did my cataract surgery, I insisted that I be put out enough to not know what was going on. I saw them coming at me with that thing to hold my eye open, and I freaked. Wait! I do NOT want to be awake for this. At least, my doctor did what I asked.

It's bad (and painful) enough when I have to have those fluoroscein angiograms.

I'm sorry about your little one. Hoping for the best.