Long-Term Experience with Eye Prolapse?

Ugh, it’s been a bad couple of months for my pets. It started with having Tricki Woo put to sleep due to his escalating dementia, and moved on a few weeks ago to the discovery that my 19-y-o kitty Peach has developed mammary tumors despite being spayed as an adolescent and who is also acting like her thyroid meds need to be adjusted (we have an appointment next week).

Then I came home last week to be met at the door by Murphy, my pug/chi mix, with one of his eyes bloody and out of the socket. :open_mouth:

I rushed him to the vet, where they put him under, cleaned and checked the eye, and popped it back in place. Luckily there was no sign of trauma. Then they sutured the eyelid closed, except for a gap to apply ointment. He came home with a ton of meds, and looking horrible.

Most of the swelling has finally gone down, and he goes back to the vet to get one of the the three sutures removed in a few days. Then the last two will be removed a week later.

But apparently there’s no guarantee that the eye will stay in afterwards, in which case it would have to be removed. And no guarantee whether he would still have any sight in it if it stays in.

So I’d love to hear about anyone else’s experiences with this!

No experience here but huge jingles for Murphy.

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Jingles!

(No experience, just support.)

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How terrifying! Jingles for your guy. We have a one-eyed hunting dog, and she is no worse for the wear.

I don’t even know what causes an eye to randomly pop out, but I’d be so traumatized I’d be tempted to just remove it, lest the next time be even further traumatic.

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I suspect he was wrestling with his brother, Hudson (aka Insane Clown Posse), and accidentally got a nail hooked under the eyeball somehow.

To remove the eye it’s another $1k on top of the $800 I’ve already paid, so I’m doing the fingers-crossed-and-hope it-stays-in plan first. :smile:

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Oh my goodness MURPHY! I am sending you jingles for your eyeball.

Just becuase you guys can’t find your ballie, please do not use your eye. That is a bad eye-dea.

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Well long ago we had a barn kitty that was just a baby ( probably under 6 months old - he mysteriously showed up in our barn with his own food and water, lol - the neighbor’s cat had kittens so mystery solved) and he got squished on his head by a horse :grimacing: We got him to our vet right away he calmly told that one of his eyes was dislodged from the socket, popped it back in and that he’d be fine. And he was! Not the brightest animal around but a dear kitty that preferred to stay in when he grew up. So not exactly the same circumstances and he was young but he was fine.

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I replaced a proptosed globe one night on an ER shift, and sofar as I know, it stayed where it belonged. ( short followup period since it was ER,but at least a few weeks.)

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Just a quick post-recheck update on Murphy:

Good news—his eye looks like it will stay in place after the final sutures are removed next week. :partying_face:

Bad news—per the vet, it may be pointed in the wrong direction…permanently. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

I feel bad for him, only because he’s a dignified, take-me-seriously kind of dog, not one who would enjoy attention for being a wacky, lovable goof.

And he is going to look goofy! :rofl:

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Aww, just saw this thread, sending belated Jingles for the cutie!