Melissa
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Poor little one. She is so sweet.
Bella's icky eye pics...new pics 12/24 :-)
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Godmother
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I'm so glad that she is holding her own. Poor sweetikins, give her a scritch for me.
lilspaz68
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Bella's eye is worse, I can't keep it moist enough now. 
I upped her metacam for any discomfort, and she is still on baytril/zithro. Amazingly she is still happy and bright, and bouncing around my livingroom right now. :doh:
She really is wonderful!!!
My so brave girl who will sometimes lick me outside the cage, and has even let me pat her inside the cage. :heart:
I upped her metacam for any discomfort, and she is still on baytril/zithro. Amazingly she is still happy and bright, and bouncing around my livingroom right now. :doh: She really is wonderful!!!
My so brave girl who will sometimes lick me outside the cage, and has even let me pat her inside the cage. :heart:
jorats
Loving rats since 2002.
And she looks so happy and alert.
mamarat
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Poor sweetie, she is still beautiful.
Godmother
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Poor sweetie, what a terrible looking eye! I'm so glad that it doesn't cause her any apparent discomfort.
Fidget
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Oh sweetie-pie Bella! Kisses little love.
It's just so unfair that a kid should have that happen to them :evil: I'm glad she has you to give her the best care possible.
It's just so unfair that a kid should have that happen to them :evil: I'm glad she has you to give her the best care possible.
lilspaz68
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Ugh, things are regularly sticking and drying to my girls eye. I feel horrible. I soak it down with polysporin ointment and it softens it enough that she gets it off, but what if she can't?
The other day, part of her eye tissue came off..blech. I felt rotten. What do I do? And for anyone curious. When I am putting the ointment on, it hurts her and she squeaks, but never once offers to bite or even nip me...my poor sweet girl. :sad-p:
I think once Bella goes I will try sweet Lisbet in the old gals cage below and hope she's not too horribly depressed when her "rock" leaves her.
This is what was left of the eye tissue she got off
I soak it down with polysporin ointment and it softens it enough that she gets it off, but what if she can't? The other day, part of her eye tissue came off..blech. I felt rotten. What do I do? And for anyone curious. When I am putting the ointment on, it hurts her and she squeaks, but never once offers to bite or even nip me...my poor sweet girl. :sad-p:
I think once Bella goes I will try sweet Lisbet in the old gals cage below and hope she's not too horribly depressed when her "rock" leaves her.
This is what was left of the eye tissue she got off
Notamuised
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Is it a viable option at this point to have the eye removed and the eyelid sewn shut? That way she & you wouldn't have to deal with the goo and debris on the poor thing.
I just wanna scritch her beatiful nekkid belly :0
I just wanna scritch her beatiful nekkid belly :0
lilspaz68
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Notamuised said:
Poor Bella is 30 months old and has a chronic URI that I fight to keep under control. When my vet saw her and I mentioned an enucleation, she dind't seem to be very optimistic esp. with the URI.
Melissa's ZOO
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Poor Bella. That eye looks awful. It sounds like it is not painful, just ugly. I don't know what I would do in your situation. I would be lost. Best wishes to you and Bella.
My rat wasn't as old as your poor little girl, so when he had a very icky eye wich he couldn't see with anymore,I let the vet remove it.
First we tried for several weeks on antibiotic but his eye kept getting bigger and bigger.
I asked the vet to remove it because my beautifull guy was in pain because of the swelling.
Twice! he sent me home and told my the rat was not in pain :?
I demanded for metacam to show he's wrong and that worked!
In a few days on the metacam,Lucky got much more energetic en playfull again. (he was only 7 months old at the time)
At last the vet amputated the sick eye.
I can feel the pain you feel,because you don't have that option
Good luck and al the best for you and your little girlyraying:
First we tried for several weeks on antibiotic but his eye kept getting bigger and bigger.
I asked the vet to remove it because my beautifull guy was in pain because of the swelling.
Twice! he sent me home and told my the rat was not in pain :?
I demanded for metacam to show he's wrong and that worked!
In a few days on the metacam,Lucky got much more energetic en playfull again. (he was only 7 months old at the time)
At last the vet amputated the sick eye.
I can feel the pain you feel,because you don't have that option
Good luck and al the best for you and your little girly
raying:
Godmother
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It sure must be hard to cope with this. I was lucky that my Tia had her eye removed when she was still young.
It is so difficult to put anything on a rat's eyes. Liquids don't adhere long enough to do much, gels have the problems that Lilspaz describes.
Lots of kisses and scritches to your brave little ratty girl.
It is so difficult to put anything on a rat's eyes. Liquids don't adhere long enough to do much, gels have the problems that Lilspaz describes.
Lots of kisses and scritches to your brave little ratty girl.
Tara
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Aww... that's too bad. I'm really sorry. But I'm glad you guys arent giving up yet.
lilspaz68
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Not yet...but I really do hate when she gets something stuck to her eye. :roll:
Here she is still fat and sassy
And scratched up Lisbet, she's sooo sweet, but with a chronic URI.
Here she is still fat and sassy
And scratched up Lisbet, she's sooo sweet, but with a chronic URI.
Tara
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They really are beautiful... I feel terrible. All that time I was so sure it was just like what happened with my rat, and it wasn't, I hope I didn't give any bad advice... :cry: I'm still rooting for you!
lilspaz68
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You didn't give any bad advice Tara. I appreciated all the comments from you Bella is still "well" so we keep going, its more on the line of "watch and wait" now then "watch for cure", but thats okay. She's an old gal whose much happier than she used to be...
((hugs))
Bella is still "well" so we keep going, its more on the line of "watch and wait" now then "watch for cure", but thats okay. She's an old gal whose much happier than she used to be...((hugs))
lilspaz68
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Well with all the worry over Mattie I guess I wasn't seeing what was happening under my very nose. Bella's eye isn't protruding as much, it seems that last scary bout may have sloughed off dead tissue leaving only a bit that's "not right" and a very small eye under that. She's happy and well, and has become very sweet even in her cage...my fingers are rarely in peril now
jorats
Loving rats since 2002.
Very strange... any idea what the icky stuff coming out might be?
She's looking good otherwise.
She's looking good otherwise.
I think the tissue of her eye [the bit that was protruding] has been slowly sloughing off. Dr. Munn said the eye was dead, so it would make sense that the tissue is slowly going to come off like that. Sort of like a scab, where it flakes off around the edges after a while.
