Sunday, April 16, 2006
Easter...Tink's Bloody Sunday
Happy Easter!!
Tink got her Easter dinner early...boiled egg and fresh baby broccoli...yum!
The good: she's back to her old sluggish self. I guess that's good? And the lump under her chin is gone! Yay!The bad: her bad eye appears to be bleeding. Every morning, as I said earlier, I
take a q-tip and some sterile eye irrigating solution, and wipe the gunk off from around her eye. Today, it was crusted over, so it took almost 15 damp q-tips. Then I noticed that the q-tips were turning brown-ish. Then red. Which freaked me out a little. Once she could open her eye, she did, and I could see why it was bleeding -- there was a bloody sort of blister on the surface of her eye. The eye itself is even smaller than it was two days ago, so I'm thinking that I was right in thinking that the layers are sloughing off. Maybe this is some inner part of her eye? It looks disgusting, anyway.
And I saw her scratch at it with her little nails, and smear blood all over her nose. That must be why her eye was so crusty. I'm at a loss here, but I think I'd better not intervene. I'm going to just leave her be and let nature, and her instincts, take their course. If she thinks she should scratch at it...well, maybe she should. Maybe that's part of the process of getting rid of the degenerating eye... Anyhow, I can't think of a way to stop her from doing it. And I can't think what else I could do -- there's no medicine to put on it, besides her drops, which I DID apply, but I'm not even sure if I should be doing that. It's one thing to put them in a regular sort of eye, but should they be put in a bleeding, open-wound of an eye? And the ointment is just a kind of artificial tears, like her drops are, so I don't see any point in putting more on, and making her all greasy all over again. I don't know. I'm going to look "eyes" up on the web and see what I find.
After I lay down for a bit. Still feeling awfully sick. (And no worries -- I am very very very carefully washing my hands before and after handling Tink, and keeping her away from my face and my breathing. The last thing she needs is to get a cold, on top of everything else.)
