On the weekend of October 2-3 Lacey was sleeping on the bed in her owners room where it was dark with no light.About 2am(HST)she jumped down and started scruffing by the door.Eventually it awoke her owner and so I clapped my hands together a few times to tell her stop.She stopped and I brought her on the bed.Later she jumped off again and started scruffing by the door.Later that morning(October 3)about 7am my dad awoke and found her laying there by the door when he opened it.She didn’t jump at him or run to him like she always done then he noticed her left eye was swollen shut.So I told him what happened and so we figured she must have bumped her eye on the door stop in the back of the door.We called up Dr Kaya and took her in for emergency.Lucky for us Dr Kaya decided to meet us at the usual VCA to check her out.As always,Lacey TRIED to put on a happy “brave” face for the staff where she wagged her tail while I carried her with the econe around her head so she wouldn’t paw at her eye.Dr Kaya explained that she had scratched the cornea of her eye and the options we had.So we are giving her antibiotics Tobramycin every 12 hrs ,atropine sulfate every 4 hrs ,artificial tears every 4 hrs.We switch out every 2 hrs for the atropine sulfate & artificial tears
The first day she was very lethargic.She wouldn’t accept water on her own so forced water in her through a syringe and didn’t want to play .She wouldn’t eat dry food but accepted people food and can food.For the first half of the day she had the cone on.The next day(October 4) she was a different dog.She started opening up her eye nice & wide three times in a row!,she wants to play,run,she took a walk,ate her dry food like a good girl,pawing to go on laps/bed,moving around more..When we give her meds she starts wagging her tail.So she’s doing great!We have a check up with Dr Kaya on Wednesday at 8am.
Update October 6 2010:Lacey’s doing well and got a good prognosis so we stopped her Atropine Sulfate and now she gets the Artificial Tears & Tobramycin 3 times a day til the 13th.After we can stop all meds.
