SamTheBunny
Young Bun
Over the last couple of weeks, I noticed that my English Lop Bear had quite a leaky eye. I didn't think anything of it as it wasn't very bad and he didn't have any other symptoms for me to be worried about. However, I had him out with Snowy for some floor time on Saturday and noticed that the liquid was quite cloudy, almost milky. Something seemed off so I decided that it was best to take him to the vets just to be on the safe side. As it was the weekend and it wasn't an emergency, I waited until today to ring the vets and then I booked him an appointment this afternoon. My mum and I took him into the consultation room and the vet looked him over, checking all of his general head area and she weighed him (3kg!) It was then that she noticed his eye protruding slightly more than the other, and that she could feel a small, solid mass that was not present in the other eye. After putting some dye in the eye and flushing out the tear duct, she came to the conclusion that it was probably either an abscess or a tumour. I didn't expect anything like that to even be a possibility, let alone a probable reality.
She said that we had a couple of options: anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics or a combination of both. Eventually we decided on anti-inflammatory drugs, in the hopes that it would do something for the mass behind his eye. (She also prescribed him some fusidic acid as he had an ulcer on his eye from where he couldn't close it properly due to the bulging). A hefty sum and quite a bit of crying later we arrived home.
We have another appointment in a weeks time next Monday to check up on him and see if the anti-inflammatory is working (fingers crossed!)
I was just wondering if anyone had experienced a similar situation and/or if they had any advice for me.
Thank you in advance, Poppy
(Sorry for such a rambly post, I didn't really think about what I was going to say)
She said that we had a couple of options: anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics or a combination of both. Eventually we decided on anti-inflammatory drugs, in the hopes that it would do something for the mass behind his eye. (She also prescribed him some fusidic acid as he had an ulcer on his eye from where he couldn't close it properly due to the bulging). A hefty sum and quite a bit of crying later we arrived home.
We have another appointment in a weeks time next Monday to check up on him and see if the anti-inflammatory is working (fingers crossed!)
I was just wondering if anyone had experienced a similar situation and/or if they had any advice for me.
Thank you in advance, Poppy
(Sorry for such a rambly post, I didn't really think about what I was going to say)
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