Been busy, Menina update
Friday, 28 July 2023 13:35![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekI jinxed myself this time, praising how the surgery was very well done and all.
Don't want to go too in-depth, but the gist of it is, they are the medical professionals, so they should know what they are doing?
When they gave me Menina, without a cone, I absolutely forgot about it. Out of sight, out of mind. Then at home she started rubbing her face, so we called the clinic and the nurses were a bit accusatory with "why didn't you give her a cone or a collar?"
I was like, hey, you didn't give us one when we picked her up?
Then under their suggestion, I bought a collar, but I HAD asked them, "isn't that like too short and she can still rub her eye somehow? If she tries very hard?" The night nurse on duty said it's fine and that the size up would be too big for her. Okay?
So 3 days later she goes for a re-check up and... ulcers in the eye! The doctor asked what happened, so I told him the story from the pick up day, and how one the first day she was fine, second fine, by the third day her eye was very wet and she was constantly trying to rub it.
Then he says that the nurse should not have given the dog to me without a collar. And that the collar on was too small. I looked at the vet and said, "no use telling me that, doctor, it's your staff" so he said he'll follow up.
The solution was to sew the eye shut, so the cornea has the chance to heal. 3 days after and he takes out the stitches, says the eye is better, so just leaves it at that. So now the vet wants to see the dog every day, but I don't have the time to spare to take her there and bring her home, so, instead, since they are so accusatory about us "letting the dog rub her eye", I said we'll use the clinic as a daycare service! I'll drop the dog off in the morning, you guys are the pros, you make sure she doesn't rub her eye, then I'll pick her up at the end of the day.
They are certainly miffed about that, but they can't say no either, coz it was their fault. There's only 3 nurses that I actually like in that clinic and they are the really nice ones. They are the ones to suggest the day care option.
Menina, certainly isn't exactly happy about that, but it's for her own good. Now that the affected eye is opened up again, I kept asking shouldn't we use something like an eyepatch instead (I asked like 4 times now) but kept being told there's no need for that. Well. We'll see.
And today I need to be in Hong Kong for work, and staying overnight too, ugh. It's not going to be easy for sis to handle all the dogs alone. Fingers crossed all goes well!
Don't want to go too in-depth, but the gist of it is, they are the medical professionals, so they should know what they are doing?
When they gave me Menina, without a cone, I absolutely forgot about it. Out of sight, out of mind. Then at home she started rubbing her face, so we called the clinic and the nurses were a bit accusatory with "why didn't you give her a cone or a collar?"
I was like, hey, you didn't give us one when we picked her up?
Then under their suggestion, I bought a collar, but I HAD asked them, "isn't that like too short and she can still rub her eye somehow? If she tries very hard?" The night nurse on duty said it's fine and that the size up would be too big for her. Okay?
So 3 days later she goes for a re-check up and... ulcers in the eye! The doctor asked what happened, so I told him the story from the pick up day, and how one the first day she was fine, second fine, by the third day her eye was very wet and she was constantly trying to rub it.
Then he says that the nurse should not have given the dog to me without a collar. And that the collar on was too small. I looked at the vet and said, "no use telling me that, doctor, it's your staff" so he said he'll follow up.
The solution was to sew the eye shut, so the cornea has the chance to heal. 3 days after and he takes out the stitches, says the eye is better, so just leaves it at that. So now the vet wants to see the dog every day, but I don't have the time to spare to take her there and bring her home, so, instead, since they are so accusatory about us "letting the dog rub her eye", I said we'll use the clinic as a daycare service! I'll drop the dog off in the morning, you guys are the pros, you make sure she doesn't rub her eye, then I'll pick her up at the end of the day.
They are certainly miffed about that, but they can't say no either, coz it was their fault. There's only 3 nurses that I actually like in that clinic and they are the really nice ones. They are the ones to suggest the day care option.
Menina, certainly isn't exactly happy about that, but it's for her own good. Now that the affected eye is opened up again, I kept asking shouldn't we use something like an eyepatch instead (I asked like 4 times now) but kept being told there's no need for that. Well. We'll see.
And today I need to be in Hong Kong for work, and staying overnight too, ugh. It's not going to be easy for sis to handle all the dogs alone. Fingers crossed all goes well!
