PiratePig
Junior Guinea Pig
Athena and I just got back home from the vet. It's quite an excursion for the two of us as we have to travel an hour by bus to get there. Usually she's pretty quiet but seeing as we were out past here dinner time she decided to let me and the whole bus know about it on the way home!
Over the past couple of days I have not noticed anymore strange head movement though her eye did get worse looking. This morning there was even a visible crater in her eye :...
On the plus side though she is eating by herself again (she was off eating for the first couple of days on antibiotics) and she seems much more active and vocal than she's been in the last couple months (I think part of being vocal may be a way of coping with not being able to see out of one eye?)
So we went to the vet and her looked at her eye and told me that it was an ulcer and that sort of doing our best to make sure it doesn't get infected at this point there isn't much to be done. He even said that when it heals it could shrivel. Apparently at that point it is no longer painful, they just can't see. He gave me some eye drops that are more potent than the over-the-counter-people-eye drops he had told me to use earlier. He also put some in Athena's eye while we were at the clinic. Of course I had just finished telling him that she was really good getting drops, so Athena decided that that was a good time to make a fuss about them (though he did interrupt her grooming to give them to her).
Athena is now happily back in her cage eating dinner
Over the past couple of days I have not noticed anymore strange head movement though her eye did get worse looking. This morning there was even a visible crater in her eye :...
On the plus side though she is eating by herself again (she was off eating for the first couple of days on antibiotics) and she seems much more active and vocal than she's been in the last couple months (I think part of being vocal may be a way of coping with not being able to see out of one eye?)
So we went to the vet and her looked at her eye and told me that it was an ulcer and that sort of doing our best to make sure it doesn't get infected at this point there isn't much to be done. He even said that when it heals it could shrivel. Apparently at that point it is no longer painful, they just can't see. He gave me some eye drops that are more potent than the over-the-counter-people-eye drops he had told me to use earlier. He also put some in Athena's eye while we were at the clinic. Of course I had just finished telling him that she was really good getting drops, so Athena decided that that was a good time to make a fuss about them (though he did interrupt her grooming to give them to her).
Athena is now happily back in her cage eating dinner
