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The One and Only Thea has haypoke.

Betsy said:
This morning when went to give Thea eyedrops, Lexi was asleep and I must have startled her cos she did a flying leap into the hay tray and did a full body slam on poor Thea who was also having a snooze. Lexi was surprised she'd landed on Thea and unsurprisingly Thea was not best pleased at having her best buddy land on top of her waking her up. Lexi jumped of Thea and before Thea could move, I picked her up and she didn't 'arf scream. Well who can blame her? She was having a nice 40 winks probably dreaming about piles of yummy food when her friend leaps on her and her slave grabs hold of her. Poor thing must have wondered what the hell was happening!
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I've got the feeling there might be a letter from GPU on the way.
 
Merab's Slave said:
How is the One and Only Thea’s eye today?
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It's looking slightly less freaky now. She's not keen on eyedrops but loves the Metacam. I think I have another Metacam Junkie! She'll be happy tomorrow as I'm out for the day so can only manage 2 sets of eyedrops and not 3. The vet said at least 2 eyedrops per day but ideally 3 for 7 days.
 
This morning when I gave Thea her eyedrops she was trying to scratch them out when I put her back in Laundry Basket Prison. She doesn't like the Chloramphenicol eyedrops but is OK with the Viscotears. I make sure that the Chloraphenicol drops come out of the fridge at least half an hour before the drops go in as it's not nice having something cold in your eye. I haven't seen her do this before. Her eye isn't looking very nice although it is a bit better than it was. I've just made another appointment with Marcin the vet for tomorrow morning at 11.30.
 
Oh poor Thea. I do hope her eye starts to improve soon. Sending healing vibes from me and the piggies. ❤️
 
I hope her eye does start getting better soon.
 
Holding The One and Only Thea in my thoughts.
Have you tried explaining to her why she has to be good about her eye drops?
 
Betsy said:
When I went to give the piggies breakfast this morning, Thea had a slightly cloudy eye. I think she had only just got haypoke as the eye was just starting to cloud over. I managed to get her an appointment for 1 o'clock this afternoon with Marcin. He managed to pull a piece of hay about 2cms long from her eye, put orange dye in her eye (which showed up an ulcer) and prescribed Chloramphenicol as the ulcer was already quite bad. She needs this 3 times a day as well as a couple of doses of Metacam for 7 days. This will be fun as Thea hates being picked up and will hate eyedrops even more but she may well like the Metacam. Wish me luck!
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Good luck ! My piggie had the same issue a few months back but the eyedrops worked really well and a couple of days later her eye looked a lot better !
 
Thea's eye is looking alarming. The ulcer which was very large has shrunk considerably and her eye has turned red because of all the extra blood in it trying to get it better. She has now been given remend for her eye 3 times a day for 5-7 days along with the Chloramphenicol and the Viscotears. Marcin said it had to be in this order: Chloramphenicol, Viscotears, Remend. He said to stop the Metacam on Friday.
 
I think eyes sometimes look worse before they get better. I remember Odin's eye looking terrible after his abscess went down (it actually looked worse back in the socket healing, than it did when it was bulging out). I thought he was going to be permanently blind; but it all healed fine in the end.
Sounds like the vets have given you the same things, in the same order that I used for Odin's eye.

She will be better in no time. We are all sending love 💕
 
Bradshaw Piggies said:
I think eyes sometimes look worse before they get better. I remember Odin's eye looking terrible after his abscess went down (it actually looked worse back in the socket healing, than it did when it was bulging out). I thought he was going to be permanently blind; but it all healed fine in the end.
Sounds like the vets have given you the same things, in the same order that I used for Odin's eye.

She will be better in no time. We are all sending love 💕
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At least it's better than Meg's haypoke. She had the same 3 lots of eyedrops, 3 times a day for 6 WEEKS! but I saved the eye.
 
Betsy said:
Thea's eye is looking alarming. The ulcer which was very large has shrunk considerably and her eye has turned red because of all the extra blood in it trying to get it better. She has now been given remend for her eye 3 times a day for 5-7 days along with the Chloramphenicol and the Viscotears. Marcin said it had to be in this order: Chloramphenicol, Viscotears, Remend. He said to stop the Metacam on Friday.
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Remend is amazingly good, Tallulah also hated her eye drops so much for a mild conjunctivitis that she tried to scratch her own eye out and got a massive ulcer- her eye went from mildly runny with a slight discharge, to red and blue and swollen with a big yellow scab on it- then Ollie tried to obsessively lick it better with a mouthful of impaction caecotrophs... so, Remend is really marvellous stuff! Antibiotic, wait half an hour in laundry basket prison, artificial tear gel, repeat the imprisonment, Remend, wait a bit... then its almost time to start again lol, Tallulah and Ollie needed so many distracting snacks to keep her back foot nails and his poop breath tongue out of her eyeball that month they both gained about 150g!
Healing wheeks for Thea, these daft pigs just dont listen when you tell them to get their foot out of their eye do they x
 
Oh dear I think Thea was telling me "NO MORE EYEDROPS SLAVE!"

When I went in the garage to take her out of the run at lunchtime she hid her head under a hidey.

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Then when I popped her in the Laundry basket prison she immediately hid her head under the blanket.

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