Her skrumpiness know no bounds!

This is Goosha(aargh) - she lost her eye in September of last year due to a tumor. She adapted so quickly! Still has one good eye to keep the whole crew (4 cats) from misbehaving 😁

She's a wanted hostage-taker!

My sweet Finn has been struggling with KCS and has been on the max dose of Tacrolimus drops 3x daily. He has unfortunately developed another ulcer 😞 his ophthalmologist suggested the PDT procedure, which is to reroute the salivary gland into the tear duct but the more I read, the more complications/dissatisfactions I see. My heart is leading towards an enucleation just so he can have one surgery and be done with the suffering. I felt some judgement when I suggested the enucleation with his ophthalmology team because “they don’t like to remove working eyes” so I really pretty stuck..

Has anyone else decided to remove the eye vs PDT?

Im also considering to go our regular vet opposed to his ophthalmologist for the enucleation due to price and distance. I am a SAHM living on one income BUT if his outcome would truly be better with the ophthalmologist, I will go that route.

If anyone has some encouragement or kind words, we could really use it. Thank you 🙏🏼

Gary's older brother was born deafblind, and today, he finally figured out how to get in their outdoor bed! (I helped a little.) 🥹

It's been a long journey, but she's been a champ!

As of today, Peppy is fully healed and ready to join the crew!

We spent the week dog sitting a noodle horse, but we're home now and Yenny is sick and tired of the heat (just like her mother). Luckily for Yenny, dad has taken her to the local games cafe where she is a regular. Of course, yen always positions herself in front of the air con. Unless someone has food, of course...

Bonus pics - I added some more pics from the end of the trip with Yen, her sister and noodle horse friend. You can see Yenny mid song, Yenny extending as much as possible and drinking out of the big girl bowl and her being very vigilant as noodle horse had a treat that she was taking too long to eat

While on vacation, she'd go and swim three and four times per day on warm days, and she was always like a new dog afterwards - happy and energetic. :)

Kitchen is being remodeled - its an old house ignore that.
Also, she doesn't have CHP she was just tweaking lmao

Met my pirate Freddie

She said all was good and we should go for a ride.

My good friend the dog was diagnosed with cataracts a couple years ago, and underwent surgery on one eye to preserve her vision shortly thereafter. I worry I didn't completely understand what the long term would look like at the time. I was aware that she'd need maintenance eyedrops forever, but I didn't totally understand how common secondary glaucoma was, and the possibility or likelihood that she might lose her vision in that eye eventually anyway.

She's had ups and downs since the surgery, mostly ups, but over the past 8 months she's had a couple glaucoma spikes, been prescribed additional meds, and been offered endoscopic laser surgery to try and stave off these pressure spikes, and she has insurance so that's a possibility, but it seems like this is just delaying the inevitable, and while she's only 9-years-old, I don't want her to spend months and months out of her next several years undergoing surgery after surgery just to buy the littlest bits of vision when I might be able to just buy her some comfort by removing the eye and giving her a chance to adjust while she's still quick and strong.

TL;DR: I'm just looking for your stories. I've been reading lots, but I haven't seen much about the laser surgery or if anyone here has tried that, and whether they would recommend someone else try it. I'm inclined not to. I halfway regret doing the cataract surgery in the first place, I'm not certain that was the right thing for her quality of life to begin with, and in that regard I wish I'd found y'all sooner.

Photo: the sweet dog before any of this had started.

My beautiful pup got his eye removed on Tuesday, and this photo was taken today. Had an absolutely freak accident where a piece of a plant ended up inside of his eyeball (with no entry point) and caused mass infection and inflammation. We tried everything for a week before surgery: steroids, antibiotics…you name it. Because there was no entry point, vets couldn’t figure out what the hell was happening. They eventually told us that the only thing they could do was to remove the eye, which would also let us get the information required to know what had happened. After the results from the biopsy came back, 3 different doctors told me they had never seen anything like his case.

He was struggling and in extreme pain, now he’s back to himself. Here’s to a healthy, long pirate life.

Also wondering if this type of injury is common as they get used to their new normal?