Kudo's to YOU!!!!! for going to Blaze's Equine Rescue!!!! ... There are a lot of cruel people in this world, unfortunately ... I always tell people if they want a pet, to rescue one from a shelter, I got mine there..... Charlie is a Beauty!!!!! Give him a great big kiss on his nose from me. Animal's are God's precious gift to us and some of us are privileged to take care of them for him. God Bless You!!!!!
Ohhhhh Pat. So sorry that Java's eye is bad. wow I can completely understand about corneal ulcers in human terms. Exactly 1 year ago, I had one also. Lost most of my vision in that eye. Drops, creams, meds every few hours and all on different time frames, some even every 30 mins. It sounds like you have the same whacky meds administering nightmares. This lasted for a few months. Eye doc every 3 days. It was a frightening time for me in figuring out if the vision would return - and it did over months. Poor Java and poor you! Sweet Java has no idea what the problem is. Good luck to you and that dear horse. prayers for you
Everything is fine today. The firefighters got it under control shortly after I took this photo, and it was out by nightfall. I don't know HOW they did it. That fire was HUGE. They had trucks from five counties working on it and I even saw some choppers from the local military base as well. The North Canadian River runs east to west across our county, and the fire was between us and the river, moving in the direction of the water. I'm sure that helped them get it contained.
hope her eye heals quickly. I've ridden a horse that was blind in one eye, and despite that fact, she was a quick and determined little horse, full of spunk and pep. She loved to run. Course, if I wasn't careful, then fences or trees happened to hit me on her blind side! LOL
Java has a corneal scratch that I've been doctoring for the past three days. Corneal scratches and lacerations are pretty common in horses in the winter time when they are eating hay instead of grass. The hay is dry and they stick their heads into the bale and get poked in the eye or up the nose. In fact LAST winter, Java shoved a small stick up her nostril and I had to doctor that - but it was a lot easier than dealing with this eye laceration.
I took this photo of her eye as part of my 365 project because it's sort of preoccuping my thoughts and my time right now. I have to doctor it four times a day, and its important to treat it because if it gets infected, she could lose her vision or even her eye.
But try explaining to an 800 pound horse that you HAVE to put medicated ointment into her eye when it HURTS to have anyone TOUCH it. She's trying SO hard to be cooperative, and I try to help by giving her carrot and apple slices while I treat it, but it's still a hard sell because even though *I* know why it hurts, she doesn't really have a concept. She just knows it HURTS to have me mess with it.
And when this is all over and she's all better, I'll have to go back to square one with the halter and lead rope and catching her in the pasture. She's figured out in three days that a halter means, "Mom's going to touch my eye." And that's rubbed out three years of "Mom's gonna give me love."
Guess that's true with people too - how one unkind word can erase ten times that number of positive ones. Guess there's a bigger lesson here than just "go doctor Java."
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