and the award for the dumbest dog goes to…

I think I have the clumsiest, dumbest dog on the face of this planet. Seriously.

This weekend I noticed Molly’s eye socket (not her eye, because it’s the side where the eye was removed…) was swollen. Of course, she had absolutely no swelling after her surgery and now he’s got a big knot where her eyeball used to be.

I know this will sound silly, but I secretly hoped that perhaps her eye was growing back! But I know that’s completely unrealistic. And impossible.

I figured the most practical reason behind her swollen eye socket was her clumsy self bumping into something outside.

Anyways, we went to the vet this morning. I think they see dollar signs when I walk thru the door. "Oh look! Here comes the young lady with a dog under a year old who’s already spent $1500 in the last 2 months on her dumb dog!" Ha…

The doc examined her eye. Said it felt swollen. I suggested it was fluid.

"Hmm, it does kind of feel like fluid, doesn’t it?"
Yep…
"Well, I can aspirate it for you if you’d like…"
Sure…
"I’ll do it in the exam room so you don’t have to watch…"
Uhm, I cut heads off of dead animals on a weekly basis. I can handle you pulling fluid out of my dogs eye socket…
"Oh! That’s right. You work at animal services… come on back…."

We pulled 12cc’s from her eye socket. That’s a hella lotta fluid. Luckily it was fairly clear. She spun it down to look at it under a microscope. She saw a few white cells in there, which would indicate a possible bacterial infection. So we’re doing a culture on it, and in the mean time she’s on anti-inflamatory steroids. And in 4-5 days, if the culture comes back positive, she’ll be put on antibiotics. I walked out the door after paying another $108.00 to the clinic.

Stupid dog.