Kitty Update

The girls and I took Elmo to the Kitty Opthamologist this morning. It would appear that the root of his eye problem is not the herpes virus but a condition called entropion as well as a bacterial infection.

Entropion is when the eyelid (in his case, the lower lid) turns inward and the lashes rub against the eye with each blink, irritating the eye. If left untreated, damage to the cornea is inevitable.

Elmo's right cornea has a pretty deep divet in it. We've now swapped away from the virus meds to the bacteria meds. We have two eye ointments, one eye drop and an oral drop to give him at various intervals. We haven't decided whether or not to do the eye surgery to correct the entropion. The minimum quote we've received thus far is just over $1300. Ouch.

But at least he has a hope of having some improvement in his eye now that we know the problem and are using the right medications.

By the way, in case you haven't looked recently, I did put some more photos out on the dropshots page of our camping/kayaking adventure.