Just a week or so after I posted last, Merry started squinting with one of her eyes. We took her into the eye vet to see if something was wrong… and the news was not good.
She had an ulcer on her eye and it was fairly deep. The eye vet felt that surgery was probably the best option – go in and essentially “scrape out” the damaged parts and then sew up her eye for a month and see if it healed – if not, another surgery to remove the eyeball itself.
You can imagine how well this went over with Merry’s Daddy and I.
The thing is: this little pug means the world to us. She’s only 10, but that puts her at greater risk for surgery; so does the simple fact that she’s a pug. Add in a slight arrythmia in her heart and it all adds up to major risk for surgery… to save an eye.
We asked for options.
The eye vet reluctantly told us that we might be able to heal it with drugs but it would be unlikely. I said I wanted to try for a couple of days anyway – I asked if there was MORE risk to her eye in waiting a couple of days and just treating with drugs, and the vet admitted no… so that’s what we tried.
What followed was a crazy month of being at the eye vet’s 2-3 times a week, a crazily rigorous schedule of drops and ointments that included waking up in the middle of the night to administer them, and a very lethargic and at times completely stoned pug who loved to scare the hell out of us by lollygagging around and not wanting to do anything. In between she developed glaucoma in her eye, spent a scary two days in the vet’s offices and will now be on meds for that for the rest of her life.
Whee!
Luckily, I am happy to report that the puglet is healing. Her eye seems to be stable and healing slowly and so long as everything cooperates, with any luck she’ll be out of the cone in a month or two and ready to take on the world again. Her energy is mostly back though she can’t do much with it since she’s not allowed to play yet.
For those of you still following along at home… that’s why you haven’t heard from us lately. :) Saving that sweet little eye has been our #1 priority and as a result, the blog has languished. But I hope to have more lovely conehead shots to share with you soon!
