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    Irritated Eyes

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    Posted · Edited by ZoomDoggy

    Dr. Connie Sillerud.

    Companion Animal Eye Clinic

    4708 Hwy 55

    Golden Valley, MN 55422

     

    She's fantastic. I've taken several of my hounds to her for various eye problems. You don't need a referral either. :) Her office is the same building as the Emergency Clinic, if you know where that is...

     

    It's a hike from Inver Grove, but she's worth the trip. BTW, I think I've met your hubby at Pet Expo a while back, when you guys were fostering DeVon's George. You were away when I stopped by your booth... :)

    Alimony Has A Swollen Wrist.

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    Bug bite, maybe? Is there anything that might've gotten stuck in her wrist (sliver or anything like that?).

     

    Odd that she's got the swelling, but, no loss of ROM or motility. I know limiting HER activity is almost an effort in futility, but, she may just need a few days of R&R.

     

    We've had a few hard frosts here already, so most of the bugs are long gone for the season. I checked very thoroughly, but found no evidence of any surface injury. The fact that the swelling has gone up/down/up/down depending on her activity level leads me to believe it is a soft tissue injury. So yes, she will be leashed even while in the yard for a while. Especially while in the yard. :rolleyes: Yesterday she had a blast chasing the neighbor kid's remote control airplane all over the place.

     

    I expect she'll be driving us to drink very quickly with her I'm bored barking and general restlessness. Nutsy not-normal girlie. :lol

     

    Riley's had a swollen wrist on and off for the past few months. We did xrays and everything and nothing showed up. He appears to be in no discomfort. The vet thinks it's arthritis. We tried Previcox with no change and he was on glucosamine/chondroitin (now he has been having stomach issues, so I stopped that for awhile). It seems to go up and down - some days it looks totally normal, other days it's quite swollen. I was panicked at first, but since it has gotten no worse in the last few months and he still does not seem to be in any pain, I am not stressing about it. I hope Alimony just has arthritis or something treatable. :grouphug

     

    She does get fish oil and a half-dose of glucosamine every day as a matter of course. I may start giving her the full dose of glucosamine. Can't hurt. :)

     

    Alimony Has A Swollen Wrist.

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    All right. This is NOT my imagination. Today her wrist is more swollen than ever. At least I know the xrays are clear. But for sure, there's some soft-tissue injury or something going on. The whole inside of her wrist is quite puffy now. :( Though she still doesn't limp at all, nor is her range of movement affected, she does tense up a little when I touch the swollen area.

     

    I am going to start restricting her activity (that ought to be an adventure for my busy-busy-girlie :rolleyes: ) and epsom salt soaks, which I should have started last week but allowed myself to believe the vet that there was nothing wrong.. <_<

    Tipper, Another Episode, Different This Time

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    A small seizure occurred this morning at about 6:30am. About 45 seconds in duration. He jumped up from his bed (this was after his morning walk and breakfast, where he acted completely normal) and stood with his eyes rolled down, slowly waving his head back and forth.

     

    One month to the day from the last seizure I saw.

     

    There was lightening in the sky today. No idea if that detail matters.

    Alimony Has A Swollen Wrist.

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    Posted · Edited by ZoomDoggy

    Well we're home and we have a tentative diagnosis, pending inspection of the xrays by our regular vet on Monday...

     

     

     

    Alimony suffers from Mitties Elephantitis, exacerbated by an environmental condition called Panicky Mommytriosis, treated by a non-anesthetic outpatient surgical extraction of $117 from my bank account, with a followup administration of one very dry vodka martini with olive garnish.

     

     

    :rolleyes::lol

     

    The upshot is, the xrays showed nothing that the vet could see (other than Ali has big feet), but she will show them to our regular vet on Monday when he's in the office again. She agreed, the joint looks a little larger on Ali's left leg than the right, but since she's not favoring it at all, and the xrays appear clear, there is no treatment currently suggested.

     

    I am a big ol' worry wart. I am also very very relieved, and will be even more so when I hear the same thing from our regular vet on Monday.

     

    Thank you for everyone's good thoughts. Maybe they really do help sometimes... :)

    Alimony Has A Swollen Wrist.

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    I noticed a slight swelling in her wrist a day or two ago. It was so slight I thought maybe I was imagining it. Today I am definitely not imagining it. She doesn't limp or favor that leg at all, she acts totally normal, but the swelling scares me as I've learned that the distal radius is a common tumor site... and that's about where this swelling is located.

     

    She is getting an Xray this afternoon.

    Corneal Ulcer

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    I knew about the keratotomy to help the first ulcer heal, but what I'm wondering is, if maybe he's not getting the right meds to prevent another ulcer... ? The bump sounds to me like another ulcer about to open up. :(

     

    I was lucky in that Sissy never had a reoccurence as long as she got her daily eyedrops. She lived less than a year after that, so I can't attest to long-term benefit. She died of cancer, unrelated to her eye problems.

    Corneal Ulcer

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    Wow, that really sounds like epithelial basement membrane disease, which I said before that my Sissy had.

     

    My layman's understanding of it is that the deeper layers of tissue in the eye are not transmissing fluid correctly between the inner and outer layers of the eye. This causes fluid pressure buildup, resulting in a sort of "blistering" effect on the eye surface, and corneal ulcers.

     

    After Sissy's recovery from open-grid keratotomy, she was on sodium chloride ointment for the rest of her life to prevent future erosions.

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