[Oagdu] {Spam?} Gipp popped open his stitches

[Marianne Denning]

Lori, I am so sorry and know how frustrating it is.  Poor Gip

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Lori Dent via OAGDU <oagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Well the subject says it all. Gipp’s been wearing the cone of shame on his
> head since Monday June 13th when he had his eye surgery to remove the 2
> sists off of his eye. It doesn’t come off he wears the cone 24/7 and he was
> supposed to go back next Monday June 27th to hopefully have the stitches
> removed. But that has changed and I’ll explain why here in a minute.
>
> When I have to take Gipp out to park, I take him out on leash so that he
> can’t rub up against the fence. So when I take him out to park he will drop
> his head and rub his left side of his face into the ground as hard as he
> can because I’m assuming his eye is itchy and when he does this I get after
> him right away and stop him from doing this. He’s doing this with the cone
> on. It’s so hard to try to keep him from rubbing his left side of his face
> and eye on the ground. Rick and I are always getting after him for doing
> this and stopping him from doing it and because of Gipp rubbing his side of
> his face and eye into the ground he will make it bleed a little. Rick is
> always checking his eye for any discharge that he has and whiping his eye
> off and he thinks that Gipp might have popped a stitch this past Friday
> andover this past weekend. I called the vet’s office on Friday  afternoon
> and left a message with them to call me on Saturday. Rick didn’t notice the
> popped stitch until after the vet was closed for the evening on  this past
> Friday. Well the vet’s office called me Saturday late morning and wanted to
> know if we wanted to bring him in on this past Saturday but we couldn’t
> that day because we were doing a Lions event with our Lions food trailer
> and Rick is the one who transports our Lions food trailer back and fourth
> to and from events. So we scheduled Gipp to come in and see the doc on
> Monday today at 2:30 PM to have doc look at his eye.
>
> Well the vet assistant took Gipp into the back room and it only took doc a
> minute or so to look at Gipp’s eye and Gipp did in fact popped his stitches
> both on top and on the bottum. So doc wants us to bring Gipp in tomorrow
> morning at 9 AM and drop him off so doc can put him back under and restitch
> the top and bottum of his eye for the second time. So this means Gipp will
> have to wear the cone of shame even longer now. I know I’m doing everything
> the doc wants me to do with Gipp but Gipp isn’t making it easy for me and
> for himself. I know Gipp don’t understand why he can’t rub his left side of
> his face and eye on anything because I know it itches him but I was hopeing
> to advoid having to go back a second time and have doc restitch his eye. So
> need less to say I’m not very happy right now and Gipp sure won’t be a very
> happy boy when he comes home tomorrow from restitching his eye up.
>
> I’ll update you all sometime tomorrow after I bring Gipp back home with
> me.  I’m really frustrated and upset that Gipp did this and I know I’m
> doing everything I can to try to prevent Gipp from rubbing his left side of
> his face on the ground, fence, or anything else that he might be able to
> rub the side of the cone and his face and eye on. I’ll keep everyone
> posted. Take care.
>
> Lori and the Gipper
>
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Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
(513) 607-6053
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