Do you have an eye specialist in your area?
My horse’s corneal ulcer degraded rapidly, requiring a trip to and stay at the clinic. It was an animal opthamologist who supervised the treatment, and we were this.close to having to do surgery.
Corneal injury and eyelid injury are obviously different, but you may consider having a specialist take a look. Can you see the eyeball and cornea, or is everything too swollen?
We don’t have a specialist here, but we do have one who takes a special interest in eyes.
He’s only able to open the eye about half way right now. He’s getting 10cc banamine and triple antibiotic ointment twice a day and is on SMZ’s as well. That eye has experienced trauma in the past, so he’s got a permanent cloudy spot and has been developing a cataract for a couple of years now. He could see with that eye before, but I don’t know how it’s going to be now.
The vet who saw him last Friday is scheduled this Friday for a check up. It was very difficult for him to do a through exam of the cornea because even heavily sedated Boy made it hard for him to get a good look, so we decided to wait until the pain and swelling subsided to take another look and make sure the cornea was not damaged. From what he saw he said it appeared the cornea was intact.
I guess if it happens the eye needs to come out, at least he’s lucky it’s the bad one.
Jingles for good healing and keeping the eye and vision!
Thank you… 
Thanks everyone for all the suggestions! The vet was back out on Friday for a check up and now that the swelling is down, he was able to stain the eye and there is a corneal ulcer so we’re still treating for that. He seems to be able to see somewhat so that’s a good thing. Right now it looks like he’ll keep the eye. He also didn’t feel there was reason to xray to look for fractures and that what looks like things are out of place is the edema making it seem that way.
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