Colby's eye report

We saw the ophthalmologist yesterday and he was glad we came in early. She has had more deterioration and the lens is now starting to luxate through the retina with the pupil being completely dilated all the time. And the pressure was increased in that eye, unfortunately, so the current treatment wasn't doing it.

This was taken two days ago. You can see the pupil is completely dilated and her eye looks bigger than the other one -He prescribed a different eye drop and with in one hour it was SO much better. Partial constriction!!! You can actually see more of her brown iris now!! And the eye is not so huge!! YAY!!!However, the drops are OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive. I thought the other drops were expensive, but these are even more. Sigh......off to order through Canadian pharmacy again. I am so pleased, though, because he said sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and if it doesn't work the options are limited. Surgery, to then remove the lens because as it luxates it will press against the cornea and cause pain. Or remove the eye all together, which I am sure is what some folks do who can not afford the drops or the lens removal surgery. The lens removal surgery is very touchy and he said not always successful, even though they do it quite well, so if we can avoid that I am all for it.

He does feel she has pretty good sight left in the eye regardless of all the issues going on. And even if she had to have the lens removed, she would then not see near, but would see pretty OK far. Not the greatest visit, but it could have been worse and I am pretty happy with the results of the new drops.

I took more frost heave photos this morning. They are pretty dramatic right now........

This particular section will eventually start to almost float. The whole path will raise up and it's pretty funny feeling underfoot. Dangerous for the horses, but I can just ride to the side.