Showing posts with label dog eye problems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dog eye problems. Show all posts

Monday, April 12, 2010

Mysterious min-pin eye issue



So you already know I have a min-pin, her name is Alexis.  She just turned 10 a couple weeks ago.  Min-pins are known for having eye problems, and I've always known this but have not experienced it before.  She does have a white dot in the center of her right eye though that she's had for many years.  Vet said it was probably "fatty deposit" and it could be there forever, it could move around, even go to the other eye (how is that possible?).  So we've lived with this for years and it's never affected her at all.

Saturday morning, she wakes up and is unable to open her right eye.  I look at it and I see what looks like a scratch right above the white dot.   Her eye is all puffy and draining... and she keeps rubbing it.  So I call my vets and naturally, they were already closed.  I called the after-hours Emergency Vet and I get this voicemail that says they are closed and "do not leave a message". ??   So I ended up just rinsing her eye out myself with saline throughout the day and it did seem to ease her pain a little.  She already had an appt for Monday at her regular vets with a tech to get her nails done and I thought for sure I'd be calling in Monday AM to change that to a Dr. visit instead.

Anyways, Sunday her eye seems better but she's still got her eye closed a lot but she can open it.  And she was still rubbing it.   I kept rinsing it out with saline, much to her dissatisfaction.

Today I wake up and voila!  Eye is COMPLETELY FINE!  No scratch, no puffiness, no redness, no nothing.  I'm eyeballing her eye and she's looking at me like, what are you looking at??

Take her to the vets today and they said her eye looks completely fine.  So what do you think it could have been?  It looked like a scratch on her eyeball, and if it was something ON her eyeball, it wasn't moving.  Could it have been allergies?  Vet didn't have any idea since her eye was completely fine when they saw her.  Maybe it was God answering my prayers all weekend!

All I know for sure is I'm relieved and very thankful that she's ok.  Had me worried out of my mind all weekend!  I think worrying about her is going to be the death of me someday... lol