FurPaw wrote:
Oppie goes in Monday to have his left eye removed. The retina
deteriorated more than a year and a half ago, with evidence of retinal
bleeds. Last week it suddenly became inflamed, cloudy, and you could
see through the cornea that another bleed had taken place. And there
was sudden onset glaucoma. Rather than treat it (except for treating
the glaucoma up until the surgery), we decided to have it removed.

I'm a bit annoyed with the vet ophthalmologist that has seen him over
the past year and a half. When our local vet called him to discuss the
surgery, he told her that he wasn't surprised - that eye problems like
Oppie's sometimes do go south quickly. I wish he'd told us that sooner,
since there was never any hope of recovering vision. We've been
treating irritation in the eye off and on for more than a year, and if
we'd known that this outcome was possible, we'd have had the eye taken
out then.

And annoyed with myself. I could have posed that question to the
ophthalmologist, and I didn't.

Because of his laryngeal tieback, he has a higher risk of AP with
surgery, but our vets are experienced with this and know what
precautions to take. So we're crossing our fingers...

Poor boy. He's such a good patient. When our vet was taking his BP on
Thursday, he was shaking a little, but he just laid quietly with us
stroking him until we told him he could get up. Same thing with the
blood draw and all the eye testing (fluids, lights).

I think he will be a lot more comfortable after the eye heals.

Oh hell. Poor Oppie. He'll feel much better soon. And cut yourself
some slack. After our recent experience with Scully I've learned that
it's nearly impossible to cover all the bases, and that sometimes even
the best intentioned experts can develop diagnostic tunnel vision.