The eyes have been fixed. Well at least as much as it was possible. On November 27th Odette went back to the clinic in Vienna for the eye surgery. There were a few more issues than expected. They were not able to insert the artificial lenses, in one eye the cornea had started coming off, which made surgery even more complicated. We told them to go ahead with it anyway.
She had to stay at the clinic for a bit, but a couple of days later we got to pick her up. She looked so tired, kept squinting because the light must have been irritating for her renewed sight. Sam sat with her in the back of the car on the ride home and all she did was whine the entire time, just like the time after her liver shunt surgery.
For about a week she got two kinds of pills and three different eye drops (also different ones per eye). Then she got the pills and two different eye drops, one of them only every second day. It is quite complicated to keep up with all this medication and give it to her properly, but it is just something you have to commit to.
She was wearing the cone for nearly an entire month and she had check-up appointments on Friday, December 13 and on the 27th, and will have another one in late January.
For now she is also still on the special food, which she will stay on for a little bit longer. After we arrived back in Austria on January 15, we took her to the vet for yet another blood-test to see how her liver is doing: Her ALT was still a bit high at 191 (normal range is 10-100, last test it was 318), but according to the vet the ALT takes a while to go down, so those high results are all right. Her ALKP however was FINALLY normal at 151 (normal is 23-212, last test it was 253). The vet suggested we still keep her on the special diet, but I am feeding her a little bit of normal stuff too, to get her used to it slowly. Once the current bag of special dog food is empty (which will probably be another month or two) I will have a final blood test done to see the results again. Once it is down to normal (if it actually will go to complete normal - fingers crossed), I will start cooking my own dog food and treats again and I will make sure to post them on here once again - I cannot wait !!
So overall, it seems like this crazy, unwanted adventure is coming to an end, and I am so glad about it. We have to make another check-up appointment in Vienna for her eyes, but they look really good. And her liver results look better than we had expected or anticipated after the surgery.
I just hope that from now on she will live a long and healthy life, considering how much she's been through.
No comments:
Post a Comment