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It's been a week of eyes!. On Monday morning I noticed that Hamish wasn't opening his left eye, I had a quick check of it and it was very red and angry looking, assuming he had either scratched it or got something in it, I took him to the vet, she examined him and he had a slight scratch on his cornea but also an infection so $173 later we left with some cream and anti inflammatory tablets and another appointment for Wednesday. Even with the cream and tablets he continued to scratch it so I had to come up with a makeshift collar that prevented him getting to his eye, hence the towel tied around his neck!.
Come the time for the next appointment he could open his eye but it was still quite red. On examination, the vet said that the scratch was a lot better but his eye was still too red for her liking so another $39 later we left with another appointment to go back on Monday. Finger's crossed all will be well then.


Sore eye and makeshift collar.

Feeling a lot better.


Today Cerys had her 6 monthly checkup with the optician, unfortunately her eyes, especially the left are continuing to decline a little although it has slowed down since her last visit. Her left eye has dropped by 2 points and her right by 1 and now out of nowhere has astigmatism in both eyes!. We are looking in to special contact lenses that reduce the speed of the decline by 30% but if those prove to be unaffordable we will go for the glasses with the special lenses that slows decline by 20%, so we will weigh up the options after the next appointment. The optician said that the contact lenses were not essential and that the glasses would work just as well. We have an appointment to go back in 2 weeks time.

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