[getdul981]

Yep, you read that right!! I'll try to make this as brief as possible and, hopefully someone else might get the benefit of our experience also.

We were told several years ago that one of our dogs has a cataract on her eye and there wasn't much that could be done about it. Well, a few weeks before Christmas, she was having a lot of discharge from that eye and was squinting with it. We took her to the Vildage Vets and they gave us some ointment and told us that if we needed to, we could take her to see a Veterinary Opthamologist. We had never heard of any such thing. As it turned out, she die not improve and we did wind up taking her to the Opthamologist which is down near Orlando. They did an exam and said that she has mineral deposits in her cornea. Gave us some drops and said come back in 3 weeks. In the mean time we had local vet check her calcium level and it is high. We took her back to Orlando yesterday and the VO said that her eye looks better, but still needed to have some drops. She was still keeping that eye half closed most of the time. We did the drops last night and this morning she had her eye open like nothing was wrong.

She will have to remain on some type of drops or ointment for the rest of her life, but if we had not seen the VO, who knows what would have happened to her vision. She's probably not ever going to have full vision in that eye, but she at least acts like it's not bothering her any more.

I anyone needs the name or phone number of the Vet Opthamologist, please PM me and I'll give it to you.