Monday, 12 October 2009

Toffee heart emergency vet

Of course it was a bad move planning a trip to the Chinese buffet yesterday evening... Nina brought Toffee in from the field and noticed her right eye was bleeding quite significantly, as well as pouring with tears. Her knee was bright red where she had obviously rubbed her eye on it, and she was waving her head around. Nina rang the emergency vet (hurrah!), who agreed to come out. Having seen the damage she had done to herself (how remains a total mystery), he said it was just as well Nina had insisted he came out, as if it had been left until this morning it would have been a lot more serious. As it is, we are waiting for the vet to come again this morning, and Toffee may have to be admitted to have a contact lens fitted to allow the eyball to heal underneath it. As well as a fairly deep laceration to the lower lid, she has scratched the cornea in two places and cut her conjunctiva. Toffee responds amazingly well to being twitched, so the vet was able to treat her eye and inject her with no other form of sedation. She seems fine in herself, but her eye looks like nothing on earth...

Update: Monday morning; same vet (senior partner) came out, said eye is healing better than he had anticipated. Toffee has to have two sachets of anti-inflammatory every morning (not Bute, something else) and eye drops three times a day. He is coming back in 48 hours to check again. Vet thinks the cat may be the culprit...




1 comment:

  1. Poor Toffee! Why do these things always happen on a Sunday??

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