Well I took Oceana in for her eye surgery this evening. We sedated her with ketamine and domosedan and they got her pretty quiet in about 10 minutes. He took the smallest scalpel and made a tiny hole at the inferior edge of the eyecap and the subocular scales. Immediately pus came out of the hole. We flushed with a saline mixed with gentomycin and then suctioned any blood that had gone into the area. I could see the cornea was clean underneath though the lenscap was fogged from the cleaning. We then did the other eye. It had large bits of pus that took a little more to get clean. We finished with an antibiotic ointment that I will use as many times a day as possible. We checked her mouth thoroughly for any sign of mouth rot, injury or respiratory infection and all was clear. We felt this was a primary infection, possibly from something getting in her nostrils. There is a small tract that runs from the external nostril to the eye. When we flushed the eye, some fluid came out the nostril. It's possible she got something from the aspen or whatever. We'll use the ointment for 7 days and I'll watch to make sure there's no other sign of infection. If there is, we'll give her a course of antibiotics but felt that it would be less stressful for her if we just watch. I'm cautiously optimistic that she'll heal up well without any vision loss. I'm going to try feeding her in a day or two. Here are the pictures from the surgery.
Cleaning the eye off in preparation:
The goo after the cut
The eye after flushing:
The other eye after flushing:
Hydronastes eye surgery...dial up No!
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