Surgery was a success!
Today Daisy had her blind, sick eye removed. It was causing her a lot of pain and although she will still be blind, she should be pain free.
Yesterday we had 8 children in here, our art studio, creating master pieces. Today it was transformed into an operating room. There were 2 veterinarians, 1 vet technician, myself and a curious 5 year old...and 1 pony!
Caution, photos of the actual surgery are included (for those of you who want to see it, I know you're out there), very graphic!
Learning about spider webs during our art/science day.
Nature creature,
owls,
fasionistas,
and faeries.
And then the art studio was transformed...
Surgery took about 2 hours, my job was to hold her head up...yes, my arms still ache!
She was given a sedative and Novocain, but would remain standing for the procedure.
First her eye lids were sutured together...
...then an incision made and her eye removed...
Control bleeding.
and suture back up.
Our beautiful Daisy.
Now lets have a look at that eye. The back.
The front. This used to be the blue eye you have seen in the photos.
Scout watches the eye dissection...while enjoying the first apple from our orchard!
The lens from her eye, should not look like a ball, maybe this was the cause of her problems.
She did great post op...she walked out of the OR and began eating grass. The rest of the day she continued eating, drinking and pooping! All good stuff after surgery. She had a few visitors, bearing fresh picked garden carrots!
Her stitches will come out in 2 weeks, she needs her barn built before winter and I think I will make her a stylish eye patch!
If you would like to donate to Dasiy to help pay for her surgery and barn please consider coming to her Painting Party or Fall festival fundraiser or you can paypal a donation to murphnmichelle@yahoo.com
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