Thankful for Heroes!

 

Arty here today to give a big thank you to the hero dogturs who have been taking care of me! As most of you know, I have had eye issues for awhile now. After my trip to the eye dogtur in February, Mama thought we had everything under control. Then, 2 weeks ago, my eyes started getting watery, and I started squinting more than usual. My allergies have been pretty bad this season, so Mama kept an "eye on my eyes" so to speak, to make sure they didn't get any worse. Then, last week, when Mama was giving me a bath, she noticed a discoloration and a small, inflamed red spot on my eye.

Mama called my regular dogtur immediately and told her about my eye. They scheduled an appointment for me the next day***. When we got to the Dogtur's Office, Mama checked in by calling the office. A few minutes later, the Vet Tech came out to take me to see the dogtur while Mama waited in the car. Mama didn't like waiting in the car, but understood she had to do her part to make sure all humans stay healthy. After taking a look at my eyes, my dogtur took lots of pictures and texted them to my eye dogtur. Then she called Mama, and told her I had ulcers in my eyes.  We went home with some eye drops and directions for Mama to call and make and appointment fr me to see my eye dogtur. 

The next morning, before Mama had even finished her morning coffee, the eye dogtor called to schedule an appointment for the very next day! It seems, the previous evening, my eye dogtur and local dogtur had been talking about how bad my eyes were . They decided the sooner I got to the eye dogtur's office the better!

Very early the next morning,  Mama and I went to Medford to see my eye dogtur. It was a beautimous day, so we enjoyed the relaxing three and a half hour drive through the mountains. When we got to the eye dogtur's office, we repeated the same process as we did at my local dogturs office.  

The eye dogtur determined I had multiple Stromal Corneal Ulcers.  I had two choices, eye surgery where I would have to be sleeping while they fixed my ulcer, or a more non-evasive procedure where the dogtur used tissue glue and contact lenses to fix my ulcers. Mama and I decided to go with the non-evasive procedure. It was quick, and pretty painless and we were on our way back home in an hour or so. She scheduled another appointment in a week.

That was last Thursday. So today, Mama and I are on our way back to Oregon. When we get there, the eye dogtur will look and make sure my eyes are healing up.  If they aren't healing as well as she likes, I may need to have the big surgery. We think I am doing much better, but I'll make sure to keep you updated!

Mama and I want to thank my local dogtur(and their office) and my eye dogtur(and her office) for going above and beyond duty and helping to get my eyes fixed so quickly amid all the CDC/COVID-19 restrictions! 

Vets and their staff are heroes too!!

From Mama:

***During this time of COVID-19, our Vets are only seeing urgent care and emergency patients along with giving rabies shots. Every Vet's office is different. It's always a good idea to check with your Vet's office to see what their policy is during the crisis to be prepared, in case you have an emergency.

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