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Things have been a little stressful. Glaucoma is currently controlled - but at some point the meds will stop working and the eye will have to come out.
The boy has been adapting well to his reduced eyesight, but clearly the optic nerve damage has reduced his sight significantly especially below his snout so he can miss ditches and when the ground moves away from him. He is clearly using a mental map but if he gets disorientated can get confused as to where steps and doors are.
Before the glaucoma incident he also had a growth on the eyelid which was due to be removed. Yesterday we finally had that operation, which appears to be a success though in the evening we had a scare when some of the clotting around the excision location dislodged and he had tears of blood.
Thankfully he is a resilient boy and has always been inquisitive and has a general response of “joy” to most stimuli. So learning to accommodate the changes hasn’t been too traumatic and he is still very happy. I think it’s been harder for us to watch him making mistakes, clattering into things, whereas he doesn’t appear too bothered.
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