[Oagdu] {Spam?} Gipp's vet appointment

[Deanna Lewis]

Hi Lori,
That’s great that you can have the surgery done for a cheaper price at your normal vet’s office. I’ve never had to have a dog wear the “cone of shame” but I know it’s got to be a pain.
Wishing Gipp a speedy recovery!
Deanna

From: OAGDU [mailto:oagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lori Dent via OAGDU
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2016 12:54 AM
To: Ohio Guide Dogs
Cc: Lori Dent
Subject: [Oagdu] {Spam?} Gipp's vet appointment

hi all,

Gipp’s vet Dr. Leftlar took a look at his eye after I explained what happened and he said that the sist on the bottom of his eye did get caught with Gipp’s dew  claw  and opened up which caused the bleeding. But the sist is still there but now it just been opened up and drained some by the bleeding.  Dr. Leftlar said that he didn’t want Gipp scratching or getting near his eye and damaging his cornia.  So the  doc sent  me home with the “cone of shame” that he has to wear over his head. Plus doc sent me home with some antibiotic ointment to put on his eye to help keep any infection from  occurring. Also, I came home with some allergy medication that’s a non steroid type of medication.

Also I originally had Gipp’s eye surgery scheduled for  June 21st with the Eye Care For Animals where Gipp had his free eye exam done at. The Eye Care For Animals they gave me an estimate of what Gipp will be having done and the cost of I which would be  anywhere from $700 to $900 with a discount and this surgery would be done  with a lazer Well I found out that my vet’s office and Dr. Leftlar could also do the surgery using lazer and  the cost of the surgery would be half the price at the Eye Care For Animals. My vet gave me an estimate of around $500 with a 15% discount which would take it down to just over $400 or so. Which is a much lesser cost to pay. So I decided to have my vet do Gipp’s eye surgery and it will be done next Monday June 13th. So Gipp will have to wear the cone  anytime I can’t keep an eye on him while in the house like when doing dishes, cleaning, doing laundry and of course he’ll have to wear it at night time. If I can watch him while in the house he doesn’t have to wear the cone of shame. But when Gipp has to go outside to park if he goes out into the back yard he will have to wear the cone but if I take him outside on leash to park he wouldn’t have to wear the cone. So I will just take him out on leash. He will have to wear the cone until  Monday when he has the surgery done and  for 2 weeks after the surgery until he goes back to have the stitches taken out. So he’ll have to wear the cone for almost three weeks. Also since I decided to have my vet do the surgery  he would need to have blood work done and he was do for it anyway do to him being a senior dog at the age of seven years old. The blood work came back fine except that his white blood cells are high and elevated dew to his allergies flairing up so that’s why I decided to put him back on some allergy medication for a while. Up until now Gipp’s allergies have been doing pretty good and not allot of scratching until just recently. So I’ll keep everyone posted to how the surgery went and how Gipp’s doing after I bring him home on Monday afternoon. Take care.

Lori and the Gipper



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