Bron and Sheba (GA)
Member Since 2015
Tonight (it's night time here) I was getting dinner and I had a large carving knife in my hand. I turned to speak to my DH when Harry, my 18 month old civvie jumped up thinking I had something in my hand for him to eat, and his left eye was cut by the point of the blade. I didn't even realise he was near me. I tried to see the damage but his third eye lid was right over the eye and he couldn't open his eye voluntarily.
I took him to the after hours ER where he was taken straight through to be examined even though they were very busy with other cases. He had to have a pain injection and eye drops before they could see anything because he was in a lot of pain and the third eyelids wouldn't recede.
After the injection had taken effect the vet put a dye in his eye and the cut was very visible. It lit up in a thick lime green line. It was cut across the whole cornea from top to bottom and there was a part at the top that was much deeper. There was also a small cut below the actual eye but in the eye socket, but they said they would heal ok. I was very lucky that the vet attending had done time with an eye specialist. She didn't think the cut had gone deep enough to let the fluid seep out thank goodness, but she said that the part that was deeper could possibly scar and Harry might have a blurry spot in his vision. She said the first three days are critical and it was good that I had gone to the ER straight away so that treatment could be started.
Harry was eventually allowed to come home on an antibiotic ointment and a lubricant ointment for the eye, a10 day course of antibiotics and pain killers. We have to follow up with our local vet and may possibly have to see an eye specialist, depending on the next three days.
Harry was so good the whole time. I was feeling ill and stressed and was horrified I had done that to my precious boy.
He is glad to be home and fed...he still has his left eye closed. He's looking for lots of cuddles, poor boy.
I took him to the after hours ER where he was taken straight through to be examined even though they were very busy with other cases. He had to have a pain injection and eye drops before they could see anything because he was in a lot of pain and the third eyelids wouldn't recede.
After the injection had taken effect the vet put a dye in his eye and the cut was very visible. It lit up in a thick lime green line. It was cut across the whole cornea from top to bottom and there was a part at the top that was much deeper. There was also a small cut below the actual eye but in the eye socket, but they said they would heal ok. I was very lucky that the vet attending had done time with an eye specialist. She didn't think the cut had gone deep enough to let the fluid seep out thank goodness, but she said that the part that was deeper could possibly scar and Harry might have a blurry spot in his vision. She said the first three days are critical and it was good that I had gone to the ER straight away so that treatment could be started.
Harry was eventually allowed to come home on an antibiotic ointment and a lubricant ointment for the eye, a10 day course of antibiotics and pain killers. We have to follow up with our local vet and may possibly have to see an eye specialist, depending on the next three days.
Harry was so good the whole time. I was feeling ill and stressed and was horrified I had done that to my precious boy.
He is glad to be home and fed...he still has his left eye closed. He's looking for lots of cuddles, poor boy.
