Re: [AlpacaTalk] Update on Eye Injury
Congratulations on Allie's eye!
I'm sorry but that vet sounds like a complete jerk! There are many vets
who do keep only office hours, but we are fortunate to have two large
animal vets literally within minutes of us who are available at all
hours, 24/7.
Heather
On Sep 12, 2008, at 9:48 AM, houckj@aol.com wrote:
> <<Yup. I've been noticing how quiet this group has been. Maybe I ought
> > to
> > go to the group website and make sure nothing weird happened. I've
> > heard Yahoo is notorious for glitches.
> >
> > Heather>>
>
> Maybe everyone is having the kind of week I've been having! I know I
> haven't been able to get to my email all week. But I wanted to let you
> all know where we are with the eye injury and the vet.
>
> She (the vet) was totally non responsive to my voice messages as well
> as
> to the note (with homebaked organic bread and an apology for calling
> her
> so late at night with the face swelling - I did this at the suggestion
> of one of the list members here and I thought it was a good idea - tho
> what I really wanted to do was totally write her off I was so mad). In
> the note I asked her to let me know when would be a good time for her
> to
> come by and look at Allie's eye (just as I had several times in voice
> messages over the previous week); that I thought it looked quite good
> and wanted to drop back on the frequency of the drops; and also that I
> needed her to check our old horse's teeth to see if they needed to be
> floated. No response. The whole week went by. I was of the opinion of
> one who wrote here that I should find another vet. The problem being I
> have done without a vet for the past 2 yrs (and buried quite a few
> alpacas) because there simply is no one around here willing or able to
> work with the alpacas.
>
> Last Friday I noticed some bleeding from the eye that had been looking
> so good all week. By Saturday it was worse. I called the vet and told
> her what was going on and asked her if she could come by and look at
> it.
> After some lecturing on her part, she agreed to come by on her way
> into town to pick up some stuff, but informed me that "people think
> just
> because I work from home they can call me any time of the day or
> night,
> but I keep regular hours just like any vet....M-F 9-5" (that info is
> not
> on her outgoing voice message)as well as let me know that she is
> booked
> for appts (as far as the horse's teeth) about 2 wks out, and in fact
> is
> not really taking any new clients. Ohhh Kaaaay. No mention whatsoever
> of the bread or note.
>
> So she came by. And was very pleasant. She was amazed at how good the
> eye looked! She said it was the worst eye injury she had ever seen and
> had no hope whatsoever that we would save the eyeball; she was just
> humoring me by letting me treat it for 6-8 wks to see if by any chance
> we could avoid the surgery. the bleeding was from the torn third
> eyelid
> that we didn't know about; the tissue had died and was kind of hanging
> down and bleeding a bit. She snipped it off and said I could stop
> treating the eye.....declared it totally healed! She gave me some
> ointment tho and said to use that in the eye 2x day for the next week,
> just to be on the safe side from the tissue she had just snipped out.
>
> She just keep commenting on how she couldn't believe how nicely the
> eye
> had healed up and said that it was possible Allie could regain a bit
> of
> eyesight, at least enough to know if a predator was coming at her. So
> far I don't see any evidence of sight :-(.
>
> Goldenseal to the rescue once again. Of course, since I was also using
> the prescription eyedrops I can't say for certain that the GS is what
> caused the eye to heal up so nicely. But 3 weeks into our prescribed
> 6-8 wks treatment, the eye was healed.
>
> Also, Allie was SO good with the vet, very patient and easy to work
> with
> (!). She kept saying she couldn't believe what a good patient she was.
> Way to go Allie. Hopefully she won the vet over and she will be
> willing to come again, should/when I have another emergency.
>
> Hope everyone is getting their hay stocked up. That is what I have
> been
> doing all week, preparing space for the winter hay delivery coming as
> soon as the rain stops.....we'
> but what a mess.
>
> Warmly, Janice in GA
>
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional
Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe
__,_._,___
posted by Chaddo at 10:20 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home