Posted By: sugarlope
Detached retina - 03/06/09 03:29 AM
I went in to feed the gliders and saw a red reflection on Dakota's eye. When I turned up the light, I saw that his right eye was filled with blood. I called the vet to let them know I was on the way.
She looked at his eye (he was very good for her) and said his retina had detached and that was why his eye had filled with blood. She said the eye would drain on it's own and the body would take care of everything. He is permanently blind in that eye now, but it will not have to be removed.
She took pictures while we were there (she teaches at the Vet school). I will post those pics when I get them from the her later (to show the difference).
Here are the pics I took at home just a couple of hours after the first pics were taken. The level of blood had dropped quite a bit between when I first saw it and when this pic was taken. But you can clearly see the difference between the two eyes. The bright red at the bottom is where the blood level is at the time of the photo.
The second photo is just of his right eye, so you can see more clearly what it looks like.
He is acting completely normal (a little more docile, if anything). And I didn't hear anything from any of them all day before I found him like this. Vet said that we will likely never know what caused it, that it can be related to high blood pressure (which we aren't going to know about), and that sometimes they see neurological symptoms, if anything at all. Dakota has had 3 seizures in the past 2 years, (hasn't had any recently) but she doesn't think they are related. We go back tomorrow afternoon for her to check him over again and so she can get some follow up pictures after the blood is gone.
She looked at his eye (he was very good for her) and said his retina had detached and that was why his eye had filled with blood. She said the eye would drain on it's own and the body would take care of everything. He is permanently blind in that eye now, but it will not have to be removed.
She took pictures while we were there (she teaches at the Vet school). I will post those pics when I get them from the her later (to show the difference).
Here are the pics I took at home just a couple of hours after the first pics were taken. The level of blood had dropped quite a bit between when I first saw it and when this pic was taken. But you can clearly see the difference between the two eyes. The bright red at the bottom is where the blood level is at the time of the photo.
The second photo is just of his right eye, so you can see more clearly what it looks like.
He is acting completely normal (a little more docile, if anything). And I didn't hear anything from any of them all day before I found him like this. Vet said that we will likely never know what caused it, that it can be related to high blood pressure (which we aren't going to know about), and that sometimes they see neurological symptoms, if anything at all. Dakota has had 3 seizures in the past 2 years, (hasn't had any recently) but she doesn't think they are related. We go back tomorrow afternoon for her to check him over again and so she can get some follow up pictures after the blood is gone.