Sandy Update

As I mentioned, Sandy had an ulcer in her eye. But what we haven't shared is that the saga of her eye is ongoing.

As we were preparing for Charlie to arrive, we were trying to get her eye healed. But it just continued to get worse, despite four trips to the vet. While it looked like the ulcer had healed, Sandy was still keeping the eye shut and it was watering even more. Knowing they had done all they could, our vet called in a referral to a doggie opthamologist, who could see us Tuesday at 8:30am (also known as an hour after Charlie was born) or September 14. We couldn't wait that long, so our vet got us into the UGA Vet School on August 30 for a consult. I hated the idea of waiting another week with Sandy's eye clearly bothering her, but I really didn't have another choice.


Then the evening before the c-section, Sandy's eye started to grey over and I started to panic. My oldest baby was hurting and getting worse and I was just sure she was about to lose her eye. It was hard for me to get ready for the newest baby to arrive, but I had no choice - Charlie was coming!


So the day Charlie was born, Marc called and made another vet appointment for the next day and the day after Charlie's birth, our vet saw how bad the eye looked and called the Vet School to get her in immediately. And once at UGA, they said it was very serious and they would have to keep her at least overnight.


Turns out, the ulcer on the eye's surface had healed, but had gotten worse behind the eye and a bacterial infection had set in. And her left eye was starting to be effected, too. She needed treatment every hour for two days, which she received at the Vet School.

So Friday, we brought Charlie home and Marc immediately turned around and picked Sandy up and brought her home as well. And evidently, Sandy was a rock star at the Vet School. Everyone knew her and stopped to pet her and say goodbye. And she even got a decorated cone - Marc said she was the only dog whose cone of shame had been fancified.

And now in addition to a feeding schedule for Charlie and a medicine schedule for me, we have an extensive and complex medicine schedule for Sandy. Marc has been truly remarkable in managing it. Sandy gets six sets of drops, a pill and some ointment for her eye. Two of the drops she gets every 4 hours. Two other drops she gets every 6 hours. There are two more drops that she gets every 8 hours and the pill and ointment are every 12 hours. Marc is up almost as much as I am at night!