What do you mean "boxed down?"
On Feb 15, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Kathryn Hargreaves wrote:
I agree on the Ketamine. I always ask for gas, and for ferals to
be boxed down.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Lee Evans <[email protected]>
wrote:
From: Lee Evans <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Dublin woke up from surgery blind
Ask the vet if he used Ketamine. This is an injected anesthesia and
many times results in dilated pupils. The dilation lasts anywhere
from a day to a week. Baby Face, a cat I had long ago came out of
spay surgery with dilated pupils. I didn't notice it until the
Sunday after the surgery. We have an animal eye specialist here.
He came into the office just to check Baby Face for high eye
pressure. She was normal. Then he asked what type of anesthesia
had been used. I didn't know so he called the vet who had done the
spay. It was Ketamine. This drug has since been banned or
cautioned for use on humans but vets are still using it on cats and
dogs because it's less expensive and quicker for them to use. I
always ask for the gas method of anesthesia because of Baby Face's
experience with this drug. It could also be the cause of Dublin's
agitation if he has a sensitivity to the drug. If you have an
animal eye specialist in your area take Dublin to that vet. He will
put some drops in the eyes and test the pressure. Dublin could
actually have come to you with mild glaucoma since you say that his
pupils were mostly not responsive to light.. Glaucoma in animals
can be controlled with special eye medication similar to what
humans use to control eye pressure. Lee
From: Anne Myles <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:32 AM
Subject: [Felvtalk] Dublin woke up from surgery blind
I am devastated -- my FeLV boy Dublin had major dental surgery
yesterday to remove the rest of his teeth due to severe stomatitis
and feline resorptive lesions (his third dental surgery in six
months). He came through OK it seemed, and his bloodwork turned out
to be very promising (his mild anemia around December had reversed
with his hematocrit in the middle of the normal range). But
something seemed off with agitation and his eyes and the vet
realized that Dublin seems to be blind. He did all the ocular tests
they do and nothing physiologically can be found wrong -- no
detached retina, no bleed, no evidence of hypoxia, etc. But only
his left eye is even minimally reactive to light. The vet believes
the blindness to be related to the FeLV, although I'm still totally
confused about the suddenness of this all.
Dublin has always had something weird about his eyes -- the pupils
stay mostly dilated and while they constrict a little it's
definitely not like a normal cat. I wondered if he had an eye
problem and could see well even before I adopted him and learned he
was FeLV+. But he seemed to see fine.
While Dublin is physically stable he is apparently extremely
agitated and the vet wants to keep him at the hospital until he
settles down and begins to adapt. He was with him until 10:30 last
night and says that Dubbie has scarcely been out of a tech's arms
since. (He is the most loving, people-oriented cat, and is not
stressed just from being at the vet -- it's almost a joke how much
he likes it there.) I am crazy with distress and also with anxiety
about bringing him home (have another cat, pretty rowdy, and a dog),
though everyone says blind cats can do well.
I'd appreciate any encouragement -- or in particular any insight
into a FeLV-blindness link.
Anne
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