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GentlewoodFarms
January 14, 2011

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This is going to be my life for at least the next two weeks.

Java has gotten increasingly more difficult about allowing me to treat her corneal laceration. Yesterday morning, DH helped me and it was still impossible. Java kept slinging her head, going up off her front end, and squeezing her eye tight shut. It was frustrating and completely non-productive, and it's definitely not worth what it's costing me in terms of my relationship with her. DH told me that he thought it was time to take her back to the vet.

The news was about what I expected. The ulcer is bigger, not yet infected, but not healing properly, so we need to move up a step in the way we're treating the injury. Doctor J put in an opthamological lavage system - basically an IV into her upper eyelid attached to a little foot pad inside the lid so that her medication can be administered through the IV tube and allowed to wash completely over the cornea. She's getting six medications a day - three of them three times, and all of them twice.

She's in the front stall on the right - which is actually the fourth stall down in the barn. I'll be stopping by every morning on my way to work, so I'll be the first one into the barn in the morning, usually right about the timer lights come on.

I love morning time in a barn, with the horses just waking up and nickering their good mornings to any human who might be planning to feed them. But today, it's only 9 degrees outside, so I'm not feeling the charm quite as much.


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