Charlie's eye surgery -- he's home (Callie)

 Good boy, Charlie, just rest and let the healing begin!

I suspect his eyes will also be sensitive to light at the start  -- if I remember, with complications like that, humans often wear sunglasses for a few days.

 You and David do a great job in the nursing dept., I am sure Charlie will be comfortable as possible now, and feeling lots better very quickly.

Gentle belly rubs for Charlie. And lots of good thoughts for speedy healing. Sweet boy! Hugs for you and Mr. Callie (Ok, David) as you help Charlie through all this. Is the rest of the crew helping?

One of the eye drops is atropine which HUGELY dilates the eye -- so yeah, for sure he has to be careful of the sun.  It will flip his day around -- he's always WANTED to go out in the sun because he could see better then, and really hasn't wanted to go out at night because his sight was SO dim

I finally got his stomach settled enough to take some food -- David got him to eat a whole jar of beef baby food.  so after we've had our dinner I'll see if I can get him to eat a bit of normal cooked food with his pills.  I just did NOT want to give him cephalexyn on an empty stomach.  ewwwww (that makes MY stomach clench to think about it)

Luna is being Nurse Sister -- she's been sniffing under his cone a very respectful distance away and lying down next to him.  Tink kindly decided to poop in the kitchen rather than asking to go out.

Yep -- living large at my house tonight LOL

meat baby food on Dad's finger was pretty good.  Now I have to see if I can get a bit more substantial food in him.  With celphaexyn he needs food in his gut. 

 Tonite he's pretty miserable -- which I knew he would be.  But there was a lot of trauma with the removal of that membrane from both eyes so honestly right now you can't even SEE his eyes -- only the third eyelid if you get his eye open that far.

 I remember the first time Foxy had to wear an e-collar -- he was SOOOOOOOOO shut down he scared me -- but I told him he had to get used to it and within a couple of days he initiated himself into the "BASH IT -- IT'LL MOVE!!!" society. 

Tonight he's a bit depressed thinking he won't be able to see ANYTHING -- but gee Charlie -- when you can open your eyes you will find a world out there.  It's just right now he only wants to keep them closed!  I'm not surprised - that's a normal side-effect.  Now if it persists for 2-3 days that's a different story.

 Healing vibes for Charlie. He will be one surprised pup when he does open his eyes.

Awww, sweet Charlie, I'm thinking of you tonight. I know you're in the best possible care with the bestest mom and dad. Feel better buddy.

He ate good for me -- did it in small sections, but ultimately he ate about 1/3 cup of cooked food (just less than half of normal) so I was comfortable giving him the pred and antibiotic.  *smile* and he's learned well since he's come here to take meds in babyfood off a spoon

DAD may feed him a jar of baby food a finger-full at a time -- but MOM is gonna use a spoon, ok??  Now I don't mind my fingers in their mouth for good reason but squishy baby food?  Nope lol

We really weren't expecting this level of trauma in the eyes -- because they had to remove that membrane from both eyes it has made them FAR more sore than if they'd just been able to slip the prostheses inside the membrane 'envelope'.  Last night not only could he not open his eyes, but the third eyelid was swollen up to cover the entire eye surface.

He was pretty miserable, but being as shut down as he was, he slept HARD during the night so after the drops this morning he did have the eyes somewhat open.

David just called -- the vet was satisfied, but gave him a shot b/c there was a bit of fibroid matter that was growing in the right eye.  Probably would have self-resolved but she gave him a shot to dispurse it.

My hero husband is working from home this morning so he can give Charlie his noon drops and then he'll go to work.  We're going to have to go home "at lunch" to do that set of drops in the middle of the day at least this week to keep pressure from building in the eye.

I have to say -- this is more work-intensive than I thot it would be.  When she spoke to us before the sugery, I told her we'd have to work the drops around the fact that both of us commute a long way to work and we'd space the drops out as we could (I told her how we'd do it) but it was quite a different story when I picked him up.  Honestly I wish she'd been more realistic about this.

He's VERY biddable about getting the drops -- and some dogs are NOT.  One woman in the waiting room was nearly in tears because that dog just REFUSES to let them put the drops in (he bites).  They probably don't say much up front so not to discourage people from doing the surgery -- but it's counter-productive to do that.

Unfortunately, Cathy ... no.  I am SO envious of all of you who can take your dogs to work with you. 

I work in a big building in downtown Orlando - and dogs are absolutely FORBIDDEN in the building for any reason.  One time back when Billy was first dealing with IMHA I snuck him in on a Saturday and darned near got the cops called on me for it.  At one time people were taking crass advantage and one of the cleaning girls is TERRIFIED of dogs -- and there went that.  Now it's an absolutely inviolate rule.

Charlie this is your Mom's friend Gin....I had to go to the Doctor today and was very anxious to hear how you were doing.   I told Hot and Rock that you were going to get to see again and they thought that was good cause then you could see what you smell and you can chase varmits if you can smell them so now you can be a good varmit chaser too :) 

Charlie iz me Rocky my mom sez where you live dey might not have the same varmits we do but I member yo're mom sez you haz tree rats so dat sounds alot like dem squrrrreeeeellllls dat sit in my trees and make noises at me.  Now even if you cant see close up u kin see dem tree rats and know where ta wait for dem ta come down from da trees.