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kidneys vs elastics
Okay, I have a little story that I wanted to share. It is about my half-blind 5 year old male veiled. Some of you might have read about him earlier. But I will do a re-cap. In the middle of August he started to get a swelling in his left eye, and he was scratching it on sticks quite often. I tried washing his eye out with human eye drops, but this did not seem to help. I put him in the shower to try and clear the eye out. Still, it got worse.
We went to the vet, and she gave me anti-bacterial eye ointment and an oral anti-bacterial medication, believing that it may have been a surface abrasion that became infected. A week of this treatment did not bring the swelling down. In fact, the ointment appeared to make it worse after every application.
Once the treatment was over, the swelling came down on its own, but some of the tissue on his eye-lid had died. There was a scar or scab there and it had gone black. For the course of the medication, I had been hand feeding him, and he lived in an observation tank I hastily put together for him. Now that the swelling was down, he surprised me by eating on his own. Even though he can barely see out of the one eye, he was able to correctly aim his tongue and successfully catch slow moving prey.
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