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<DIV>hi all,</DIV>
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<DIV>Gipp’s vet Dr. Leftlar took a look at his eye after I explained what
happened and he said that the sist on the bottom of his eye did get caught with
Gipp’s dew claw and opened up which caused the bleeding. But the
sist is still there but now it just been opened up and drained some by the
bleeding. Dr. Leftlar said that he didn’t want Gipp scratching or getting
near his eye and damaging his cornia. So the doc sent me home
with the “cone of shame” that he has to wear over his head. Plus doc sent me
home with some antibiotic ointment to put on his eye to help keep any infection
from occurring. Also, I came home with some allergy medication that’s a
non steroid type of medication.</DIV>
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<DIV>Also I originally had Gipp’s eye surgery scheduled for June 21st with
the Eye Care For Animals where Gipp had his free eye exam done at. The Eye Care
For Animals they gave me an estimate of what Gipp will be having done and the
cost of I which would be anywhere from $700 to $900 with a discount and
this surgery would be done with a lazer Well I found out that my vet’s
office and Dr. Leftlar could also do the surgery using lazer and the cost
of the surgery would be half the price at the Eye Care For Animals. My vet gave
me an estimate of around $500 with a 15% discount which would take it down to
just over $400 or so. Which is a much lesser cost to pay. So I decided to have
my vet do Gipp’s eye surgery and it will be done next Monday June 13th. So Gipp
will have to wear the cone anytime I can’t keep an eye on him while in the
house like when doing dishes, cleaning, doing laundry and of course he’ll have
to wear it at night time. If I can watch him while in the house he doesn’t have
to wear the cone of shame. But when Gipp has to go outside to park if he goes
out into the back yard he will have to wear the cone but if I take him outside
on leash to park he wouldn’t have to wear the cone. So I will just take him out
on leash. He will have to wear the cone until Monday when he has the
surgery done and for 2 weeks after the surgery until he goes back to have
the stitches taken out. So he’ll have to wear the cone for almost three weeks.
Also since I decided to have my vet do the surgery he would need to have
blood work done and he was do for it anyway do to him being a senior dog at the
age of seven years old. The blood work came back fine except that his white
blood cells are high and elevated dew to his allergies flairing up so that’s why
I decided to put him back on some allergy medication for a while. Up until now
Gipp’s allergies have been doing pretty good and not allot of scratching until
just recently. So I’ll keep everyone posted to how the surgery went and how
Gipp’s doing after I bring him home on Monday afternoon. Take care.</DIV>
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<DIV>Lori and the Gipper</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>