This is wonderful news.... I am happy for Robin and for you and your wife. Keep us posted.

We went to our vet today for a blood draw.They will do a work up on it and send it to Sterling Hieghts.We didnt get results untill this afternoon because they had a emergency situation when we got there. It seems that a clients dogs got into and ate a box of DIET CHEWING GUM. It must have tasted good,but they were there with very serious kidney and liver issues as a result. They didnt tell me any more but I could tell by thier tone that it did not look good.Keep the DIET CHEWING GUM locked up!
Robins blood glucose was rather elevated at 400,as opposed to 200 during the surgery,and her liver enzymes were elevated. they thought the liver thing may be a result of the Meloxicam so we suspended it untill Dr Lorimer at Blue Pearl sees the readout. She did chase a chipmonk into the tube cross member on the loader this afternoon and was creating quite a scene trying to dig it out. I raised up the loader and poked him out with a fiberglass electric fence post so that she would not get dirty and/or greasy from the loader!

I can't remember the name for it, but yeh that artificial sweetener is really bad! on a dog. I can understand a vet putting everything on hold to work on it!

Glucose, well, you just gotta stop giving her those sweet treats! I know how glad you are that she's feeling (and seeing) better but c'mon guy, seriously, Twinkies are not an acceptable dog treat << just teasing >>

Aha, we got some more pictures from Trbomax of a dog who can now see!!!!! Lunch!!!

Hey dad, look what I just caught!!!


Hey mom, do we have some sauce for .... mom ... mom ... hey, mom!!!!

Thanks Al,I dont know if thats on her diet or not!

Now for some followup shots.

Ah, now that's a lot better!!! It's really good to see that she's really looking and seeing you all again.

trbomax wrote:

We got our stitches out today,both the ophthalmologist and the neurologist said all looked good and the horners syndrome is much improved.eyeball pressure is on the high side of normal on the left side and tear production was a bit low,so we got 2 more kinds of drops! Oh boy!!!

"Here's looking at you, you old fart!!"


"Oh geeze dad, c'mon already!!!!  It's a beautiful day out!"

Hope you don't mind my foolish captions ....

not at all! she sure went nuts running around and bounceing when we got home this afternoon,maybe she was just glad to be back from her 400 mile road trip today!

Great pics guys, She is such a stunning lady, so happy to see pics of her enjoying her new eyes.

MiyasMomma wrote:

Great pics guys, She is such a stunning lady, so happy to see pics of her enjoying her new eyes.

Going mostly off topic - I can really relate to her being able to see. I've had bad vision since I was too young to remember. When we had our eyes tested at school in, like, second grade the nurse asked me what direction the "E" was pointing and I asked "What 'E'" and promptly got told to stop playing ... the truth of the matter was that I couldn't see it, so it's been either glasses or contacts ever since. Two years ago they removed a cataract from my right eye ( no fool here, if they messed up one, I could live with one - but if they messed up both - I wasn't taking that chance! ) last year they did the other one and I have 20/15 in both eyes! It's amazing to me to be able to look at the hills in the distance and see the trees sticking up from it! I, literally, never knew what I was missing.

It makes this experience for her very personal for me and you have no idea how glad I am that she can see again!!!

aljones wrote:

MiyasMomma wrote:

Great pics guys, She is such a stunning lady, so happy to see pics of her enjoying her new eyes.

Going mostly off topic - I can really relate to her being able to see.  I've had bad vision since I was too young to remember.  When we had our eyes tested at school in, like, second grade the nurse asked me what direction the "E" was pointing and I asked "What 'E'" and promptly got told to stop playing ... the truth of the matter was that I couldn't see it, so it's been either glasses or contacts ever since.  Two years ago they removed a cataract from my right eye ( no fool here, if they messed up one, I could live with one - but if they messed up both - I wasn't taking that chance! ) last year they did the other one and I have 20/15 in both eyes!  It's amazing to me to be able to look at the hills in the distance and see the trees sticking up from it!  I, literally, never knew what I was missing.

It makes this experience for her very personal for me and you have no idea how glad I am that she can see again!!!

I can relate - when I was 13, I got glasses for the first time. When I walked out of the office, I was amazed to see that you could see individual leaves on the trees, that the trees had gaps between the branches where you could see the sky and that the trees really weren't "green lollipops" sticking up out of the ground

My uncle who is about 8 years older than me, he was adopted because his biological family had severe medical issues. My grandparents were very happy and willing for him to enjoy his biological family, my grandparents had the funds to care for him, they couldn't. My uncle has had several tumors removed over the years and has been on dialysis for about 20. The largest tumor was the size of a grapefruit in his head, degenerative loss of eyesight was inevitable, when he went for his bachelor's degree he was told to give up, he wouldn't have his sight in the 4 years, he took accelerated courses and graduated in less than 2 years. He called my dad on his birthday in March happy as anything, he has outlived all of his biological family. I share this, because eyesight is one of the most precious gifts we have, and probably more precious to a dog. I love the commitment, love and devotion John and his wife have for beautiful Robin.

Robin had her 5 week check up today.The pressure in both eyes is within normal parameters,and everything is healed up with no visible scaring.Dr Lorimer said she had no restrictions but still is on 4 sets of eyedrops twice a day.It looks like a succesful opperation!