Bill’s cataract surgery
Posted: 27 Apr 2022, 14:10It’s been playing on my mind recently so haven’t felt up to posting much.
Bill had his surgery yesterday.
He had an eye ultrasound after we’d dropped him off and we had a call to say that there was something, possibly a tumour, in one of his eyes. They asked if we wanted to collect him or did we want them to proceed, they’d know more of what they were dealing with during surgery though, with no hesitation we told them to go ahead. We had another call around 12 to say that all had gone well and the ‘thing’ in his eye was actually a fragment of lens. It’d ruptured at some point and because of this he wasn’t able to have a replacement lens fitted in that eye, but this won’t affect his sight too much, just that his close up sight won’t be as good as in the other which has had a new lens fitted.
We had another call an hour later asking if we could go and sit with him as he was stressed, we were expecting that. He has form for this
It was sunny and we sat in the shade under a tree in the Herefordshire countryside for four hours, he was monitored hourly before we were able to leave with him. Because of the distance we’d booked a cottage nearby for the night so that he didn’t have to travel for two hours afterwards and we had to be back for a check up at 9am this morning anyway. The nice surprise was that despite being in a strange place with doorways, tables and chairs in unexpected places, he wasn’t bumping into things when we got to the cottage.
His check up went well this morning, the vet could see straight through to the back of his eyes. We’re now home and it was lovely to see him walk up the path to the door and not hesitate about stepping up the doorstep.
Now the fun starts with eye drops. He has to have four different types of drops, each four times daily so a grand total of 32 drops each day and there has to be at least 10 minutes between each type of drop being given. There’s also medicine with food in a morning and a tablet morning and night with food. We’re back at the specialist vets next week for a check up.
Bill had his surgery yesterday.
He had an eye ultrasound after we’d dropped him off and we had a call to say that there was something, possibly a tumour, in one of his eyes. They asked if we wanted to collect him or did we want them to proceed, they’d know more of what they were dealing with during surgery though, with no hesitation we told them to go ahead. We had another call around 12 to say that all had gone well and the ‘thing’ in his eye was actually a fragment of lens. It’d ruptured at some point and because of this he wasn’t able to have a replacement lens fitted in that eye, but this won’t affect his sight too much, just that his close up sight won’t be as good as in the other which has had a new lens fitted.
We had another call an hour later asking if we could go and sit with him as he was stressed, we were expecting that. He has form for this
It was sunny and we sat in the shade under a tree in the Herefordshire countryside for four hours, he was monitored hourly before we were able to leave with him. Because of the distance we’d booked a cottage nearby for the night so that he didn’t have to travel for two hours afterwards and we had to be back for a check up at 9am this morning anyway. The nice surprise was that despite being in a strange place with doorways, tables and chairs in unexpected places, he wasn’t bumping into things when we got to the cottage.His check up went well this morning, the vet could see straight through to the back of his eyes. We’re now home and it was lovely to see him walk up the path to the door and not hesitate about stepping up the doorstep.
Now the fun starts with eye drops. He has to have four different types of drops, each four times daily so a grand total of 32 drops each day and there has to be at least 10 minutes between each type of drop being given. There’s also medicine with food in a morning and a tablet morning and night with food. We’re back at the specialist vets next week for a check up.
Clever boy 
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