[Oagdu] {Spam?} Re: Gipp's free eye exam yesterday

meandthedog at oberlin.net meandthedog at oberlin.net
Wed May 4 20:36:56 UTC 2016 

>Good evening. all. MS. Pepita is having her eye exam in Accron on11. i am
hoping
she is ok. Megan and Ms. P.  I am moving on the 14th of may and having my
home
visit around the next week I knob it is on Sat. 21st. I will not have
everything un packed
  but he will see our new digs. take care. Debby good lick with the Gip

M s.P . and Megan





 Hi Loi,
> Thanks for letting us know how Gipp’s appointment went. Glad his eyes
> look pretty good. You mention the growths on Gipp’s eye, are they on his
> eyelid, or just near the eye? I think it would be a good idea to have them
> removed sooner rather than later. Sounds like the procedure shouldn’t be
> too bad for him. I pray that all goes well.
> I’m taking Mambo and Pascal to MedVet for the service animal eye exams
> on Sunday, May 15th. So, I will keep you all posted on how their
> appointments go.
> Deanna
>
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> Subject: [Oagdu] {Spam?} Gipp's free eye exam yesterday
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> Hi all,
>
> Well I took Gipp in for his free eye exam this afternoon. The doctor  is
> just pointing out everything he does see and telling me about it.  In the
> very center of Gipps cornias he has a very thin area of thickening kind of
> like a very mild cornia adema. This causes nothing and is nothing    to be
> worried about. It just shows up as a faint  little blueish gray haze
> right in the center of his cornia.  The front of Gipps eyes are fine. When
> the doctor  gets into the lens  Gipps got some very very small little
> crystaling type cateracts in there the doc says it causes no problems what
> so ever. The type of cateract  the doct is talking about is a   cateract
> only by strict definition of the word they don’t effect vision.  there
> little crystal spicules the doc can see right through them and Gipp can
> see right out.  There’s no  concern there.
>
> When the doctor looked  into the retina he said that looked pretty  normal
> in both eyes.  Also  when doc looked into his  retina  he saw a  patch
> that looked like a little scar in there. The doc said the retinas are in
> good shape.
> The doctor talked about    the growt on his eye and the potential of maybe
> removing it.     Which wouldn’t be to difficult the doc typically revome
> things like that using a little lazer  which he said is nice  because the
>  aturnitive is  would be to go under anesthesiacut them out  and stitch
> them together But we would have to watch  because of the tearduct
> because of where it’s at. The doc said absolutely Now that’s a
> concern.  The doc said that’s a little more of a concern for the bottum
> one then the upper one.  The doct doesn’t get to bent out of shape about
> that and here’s the reason why. Even if the tear duct gets damaged a
> little bit . We say what’s the  worse thing  that can happen the worse
> thing that can happen  you end up getting   a  little extra teering from
> the eye. Don’t get me wrong I  of course  take every effert  to avoid
> any of that.  But the doc’s point is if our choice is  to let the growth
>  grow and  grow or we go in  and there’s a little risk  that we might
> damage the teerdraining duct and we end up with a little extra teering
> down the face he rather get the growth out. It’s not the tear production
>  duct  but it’s   the teer drainage duct. So it’s where the tears  are
> produced and leave and exit the eye.  So if that duct gets damaged  thin
> it just means  the tears can’t flow down a normal tube and they can end
> up drawn out  and come down the face. The bottum line is the doc is not
> talking or worried about in any way  about damaging the production of
> tears  so this would not effect  Gipps ability to moisten or lubricate his
> eye.  If anything the doc  said you heard of people with dry eye getting
> plugs  put in  that’s what your doing flooding out the dranage ducts so
> the tears don’t go down they systum and they stay in the eye longer at
> the worse case scenarioand there are 2 of them. Basically there’s
> openings on the upper eyelid and lower eyelid for tears to get into the
> tear  draining duct. So you have a growth  right  here and another one
> here so yes there’s no question  there . They are very close to where
> those openings are. But the docs guess is if he can get  those out in a
> way  that he  won’t damage  both of those to make it where there’s no
> tear dranage  at all. If we did though he would say yeah there’s  a
> small chance  we would come out of this with a little extra teering. Rick
> and I both told the doc that the growth is getting bigger.  The doctor
> will get me some information on  trying to zap the growths off. The doc
> would try to do as much as a discount he can. If I have the lazer
> procedurer done on Gipps eye  he wouldn’t have to wear that cone shaped
> thing over his head  and Gipp would be able to  work as usual with no
> downtime.
> I asked the doctor if he thinks the growths  should be removed. The doc
> said the biggest issue  he said that he thinks  that they aren’t causing
> any  problem right now but the concern is if their growing they can come
> to a point where they get  to big to do the lazer treatment.And then it
> starts to get more compicated. If I’m going to remove them  it’s
> better to do them while there  relatively small.  The says it’s easier
> and quicker.  He said it’s not an emergency  he’ll get me some
> information on it  and I can decide on it.  If I have this done Gipp will
> be there for a couple of hours it’s not a all day thing. The doc said
> the sists are probably  little benigned tumor from the oil glands.
>
> The doctor was really friendly and nice and he did  explain everything to
> me thoroughly. I do want to get these 2 sists removed here in the near
> future. Gipp did great this afternoon.
>
> Lori and the Gipper
>
>
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