Momma2Bullies
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Hi Friends! I know I haven't been around for a while (we are moving AND I started a new job LOL!!!) but I hope everyone is doing well!
I want to share this with you - talk about a freak accident.
Sunday, Wilbur was being his usual goofy self, jumping and snorting at us to play with him. I keep their toys and bones in a basket(a pricey sea-grass one of course) by the kitchen island (well, I try to at least! Layla and Wilbur think it is hilarious to take each one out, one by one, and re-distribute them around the house). Anyway, as he was snorting and jumping, OF COURSE he had to precisely hit the edge of the toy basket, causing every sharp chewed end of every nylabone to fly up and hit him right in the face.
Naturally, I freaked out and screamed that he had lost his eye (I am always the model of calm and control). Well, his eye swelled shut and he was instantly terrified of the toy basket (I was already setting it on fire and basically shredding it out of existence). I was convinced that he had 25 fragments of nylabone crumbs that were slowly making their way under his eye and into his brain.
Within about half an hour, the swelling was gone but he was totally blinking like there was something in his eye... I looked 70 times and couldn't see a thing. He was acting normal so I tried to relax.
Monday, his eye seemed red and he was still blinking. I thought it was weird that it was still like that if he didn't have something in it, but I was trying not to be a lunatic.
Tuesday, I went to work obsessing over it and made a vet appt that afternoon. I felt like there was something wrong, even though my BF said to relax....
AT THE VET: Clearly an issue, she dyed his eye with a stain and then with the lights off it fluoresced under a spotlight. TOTALLY a scratch right down the centre of his poor eye, on his cornea. I guess in people, something like this will heal on its own, but with EBs, infection is imminent. In fact, Wilbur was already getting an infection. Untreated, this leads to an ulcerated eye.
I have antibiotic eye gel for him now, twice a day. We are back at the vet this aft to make sure it is healing (it is still very red, dischargey, and looks sore) or we will have to go to a more hardcore antibiotic. MY POOR BABY!!!!
Moral of the story: beware of toy baskets, and as always, TRUST YOUR GUT WHEN IT COMES TO OUR EBS!!!!!!!
Love,
Bree, Layla and Wilbur xo