Message Number: SG17054 | New FHL Archives Search
From: rezgrrl@netzero.com
Date: 2006-04-05 16:26:15 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: dumb/weird melatonin question
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com

Well, Cookie's glaucoma was secondary--after the eyes ruptured, when the vet went in
to remove them, he found tumors behind both eyes. Said each was about the size of
3-4 eyeballs, and said it looked like lymphoma. So even if the glaucoma hadn't
destroyed the optic nerve, I believe the whole eye was removed, nerve and all. Even
though she seemed to have gotten stone-blind before the operation, she did run into
things a lot more afterwards, so there may have been some function (light-dark, as
Sukie says) even with the initial blindness. Then again, she'd been navitaging primarily
by whisker (not smell, is this unusual enough to suggest other damage?). With the face
shaved, she was flying without radar for a while.
She was initially given a human eyedrop--Trusopt--and I was told that she would be
able to use it indefinitely--which I took to mean it would be effective indefinitely. I
guess what they really meant was that it wouldn't harm her. When the eyes ruptured,
the vet said, oh yes, they usually stop working after a while. I wish I'd known about
other options which may have saved both of us plenty of trauma.



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