Originally Posted by Parka (Post 4763388)

I'm not sure, the internet says it can be brought on by stress and we had strangers at the house yesterday purchasing some furniture. But it seems like if that was the cause he wouldn't have gotten violently ill 12 hours later. They originally thought he was having an anaphylactic reaction to something because his paws were very swollen. I didn't think it was that because he's had those before and usually his face swells up like a balloon.

I just went and visited him. He is now stable but he's definitely not ready to come home yet. He was spaced out and he had clearly vomited recently. I asked about the ultrasound and they said it will most likely be performed tomorrow. I thought the ER doc was going to do it and the radiologist was going to look at it tomorrow for an official interpretation, but I must have misunderstood. The whites of his eyes were very red when I visited and I asked them to keep an eye on that.

I have not been separated from him overnight in many years. At least 4 or 5. And I have never spent a night in this house without him. But I know he's in the place he needs to be. I think it's going to be a rough night, and I'm not sure if I will go to work tomorrow. I haven't eaten either, and I'm not sure I want to eat, I just want to fast forward to whenever he can come home.

Originally Posted by Parka (Post 4764397)

Hey everyone. Just wanted to post a quick update. His eye removal surgery for the right eye is this upcoming Friday. He is fully recovered from the episode of HGE except for one thing - he is refusing to eat kibble and will only eat the canned food he was on during the recovery period. It's smelly and expensive but he loves it, so I will oblige.

I have concerns about his left eye. It seems to have deteriorated rapidly. The right eye went from "oh hey that's a mature cataract" to "the eye needs to be removed" in a period of 4 months. All the specialists originally told me not to remove his left eye back in May, but I'm no longer seeing any reaction to light and the iris has started to get the blue-ish ring like his right eye. I'm also starting to see redness in the globe. He has been treated with flurbiprofen the whole time, and his pressures in that eye have never been high, so I'm not sure what's causing it. I am going to ask them to test the pressure in the left eye and see if it has changed significantly from the tests he's had over the last 6 months.

So while he is becoming a one-eyed dog on Friday, I suspect he may also become a no-eyed dog sooner rather than later. That said, he seems to be very happy, very healthy, and back to being his bossy self.

Originally Posted by Parka (Post 4764675)

I dropped him off for surgery this morning...