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Maui Going To The Vets Next Week.


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Maui's eye has been bothering him lately and we could see an eyelash growing from underneath the eyelid.

Took him to the Vet today and $138 later we have cream and tablet for him to take for a week. The eye has a little ulcer starting now :(

He is going in for surgery on it next Friday (15th), I am going to take the afternoon off work to pick him up. Aprantly they may close his eye for up to three weeks for it to heal properly? :(

This wont be covered by our pet insurance I dont think, as its maybe 1 day before the 30 day waiting period..

Damn this month is going to absolutly flatten me with bills.. (Over $3 grand in bills due, insurances regos etc etc.... ) Going to be tough, but the health of Maui is more important then anything to me :)

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The vet messed around with my old rescue girl, Faith's indolent ulcer for 5 weeks, to no avail. He eventually put her under a general anaesthetic for grid keratotomy which failed. He then suggested stitching her eye closed for a couple of weeks but I didn't like that idea because we wouldn't be able see if any healing was taking place, so he sent me off to a canine eye specialist. The vets bill came to around $1700. Probably because we were having twice weekly consults with flourescein tests each time plus the consult fees.

The specialist said he could fix Faith's ulcer and she wouldn't need a general anaesthetic. He said rather than close her eye he would insert a contact lens to protect the eye.

The following day Faith had a corneal debridement and second grid keratotomy, contact lens was duly inserted. He carried out the procedure with only anaesthetic eye drops. Faith was a very calm accepting dog who stayed perfectly still while he worked on her eye.

8 days later at post op check up her ulcer had healed perfectly. It may be worth asking your specialist if Maui can have a contact lens instead of stitching her eye closed. The specialsts bill came to under $800 including the first visit and the post op check.

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Thanks CavNRott, will speak to them about it. Hes doing really well with the cream at the moment, it seems to be making his eye feel better. There was only a very tiny ulcer starting, so hopefully combination of cream and tablets will get rid of it..

The surgery is mainly to get rid of the hair and to make sure it doesnt come back. Which has to be done under sedation..

Am I a horrible doggy mum that I think it would be funny to have a pirate eye patch on him?? :) (Not that it would last long!)

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  • 2 weeks later...

Maui is hOme from the vet.. He has three hairs removed from his eyelid...

He is sporting the cone for a couple of days, which he is struggling to negotiate with!!

Not sure how to add photos from iPod, but he isn't happy. :(

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