I took Georgie to the vet about a month ago because she had an upper respiratory infection. The vet gave her a steroid shot, gave me some liquid Prednisone and Amoxicillin to give her at home.re
Everything seemed to clear up, her eyes weren’t goobery anymore, she wasn’t sneezing and acted like she felt much better. Almost a week ago, I noticed her right eye was watering again and she was keeping it closed so I called to get more medicine. I have been giving it to her twice daily but it didn’t improve at all. So I pried it open yesterday and it almost looked like she was blind.
I took her back in today and she has a corneal ulcer. Because I caught it so fast, he thinks it will heal and she won’t lose her eyesight. I take her back in on Friday for a follow-up. I’m only being optimistic right now.
He gave her a steroid/antibiotic shot and put a drop of Atropine in the eye. Atropine will numb the eye and can last a week to 14 days so that her eye won’t hurt and she won’t be tempted to rub it, which luckily she hasn’t. I brought home some Ofloxacin drops, which I have to give her 5 times a day, and some more liquid prednisone, which she hates. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Hopefully, this is just from a scratch or some other irritant and not some underlying condition. It’s usually caused from a wound, a scrape, even rubbing up against a tree with a limb. I’m really trying not to let her out but she’s sneaky sometimes. More about corneal ulcers in the next post…….
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