Yesterday, the day I've been dreading for months, finally arrived. At 12 noon, Georgina was to be spayed and have the fifth and (hopefully) the final operation on her eyes. At 10.30 am I put my unsuspecting little girl into the car and with a feeling of dread we set off on the 40 mile journey to the vet. After battling heavy traffic we arrived hot and thirsty,10 minutes early but had to wait another 15 minutes before they came to collect Georgie who by that time was becoming anxious. After weighing her (she's now 17.5 kg), and being told to come back in an hour and a half, I kissed her goodbye and left. As I felt too stressed to drive anywhere in the car I decided to find a cafe for a coffee and a sandwich (which I couldn't eat). Arriving back at the vets,as I entered the building, a dog started screaming as though it was in the most terrible pain. Realising it was Georgie I started to shake all over, wondering what on earth had happened to my precious girl. I was reassured when the vet said both operations had gone well and she wasn't in any pain, but she was very frightened because her eyelids were swollen. She was just beginning to open her eyes when I went into the recovery room and she even managed to wag her her tail. Whilst the bill was being prepared I knelt beside her, talking to her gently and she eventually calmed down. The journey home though was a bit of a nightmare because we kept running in and out of torrential rain and Georgie who'd been calm when she was put in the car cried and whimpered all the way home. When we got home I couldn't lift her out of the car and if I left her for more than a few seconds she'd start to cry. For the next half hour I sat next to her until a neighbour walked by and I asked him to help me. By this time it was nearly 6pm and I was feeling tired and hungry but as she didn't want me to leave her, my dinner that night was cheese and biscuits. Around 8 pm she wanted a wee and managed to walk outside but after a few steps she stopped and stood like a statue until I helped her walk back inside. From then on until 2 in the morning she kept whimpering, wanting to go out, by which time I was exhausted and thinking this was to be the pattern for the rest of the night I went to lie down on the bed. I fell asleep and only woke up at 4.30am to find her fast asleep on her mattress next to my bed. She didn't wake up until 10 this morning and has spent her day mostly sleeping and gently pottering round the garden. Aren't I relieved it's all over and I won't have to go through it all again!
I hope Georgina is feeling better after both of her operations. Its horrible when our pets have a operation, I hated leaving them at vets as now K9 relate the vets as bad place were I left him & he woke up feeling drunk & me no where in sight.
Aww - poor little Georgina I hope she feels much better very very soon. for her and (((hugs))) for you Barbara. xx My Vet will not let a spayed dog home until they have pee'd - one of the vet nurses takes them out to their little pee & poo garden - and then they can come home. Pereg was brought home by the people who took us there [and brought me home afterwards] and she came bounding down the path as if nothing had happened! I was also allowed to stay with both Little One and Pereg until the pre-med shot had taken effect and then go in with them while they were intubated. Not allowed to stay and watch though - although I was allowed to stay and watch during the two lots of dental surgery that Little One had. Mind you, I was also in charge of watching the monitors on her!
Hoping that this is the last operation she will ever need. You are a really good Mum and will soon love her back to full fitness.
Thanks everyone for the good wishes. I'm pleased to say Georgie is more or less back to her normal self today.. Yesterday, her appetite came back and she ate her first meal since Sunday. She also slept like a log from 9 last night until 9 this morning. I'm so happy for her because before her eye op she had about 85% vision, but today it's 100%. I can't believe the difference its made in her behaviour! For the past few weeks we've had workmen constructing rain water culverts the other side of the road to me. Last week she would have spent her time barking at them but since her op she's totally ignored them which can't be bad. Malka .... I want to say a special thank you to you. In the early hours of Tuesday morning when I was drooping with tiredness and wondering if I could cope, I thought of you and all the sleepless nights you have with the lovely Pereg. I told myself to stop being a wimp and to be strong like you. Bless you Malka ... you're a very special person!
Thank you so much Barbara for those kind words - you have no idea how much they mean to me, especially at the moment when the situation is so terribly bad here and I cannot even mention it because people do not like to hear what we are going through now.
Phoebe has had many surgery's over the years and had barely even noticed they had been done, except when she was spayed. It was horrid. I spent 2 days living on the lounge floor as if i didnt lie with her she would cry and whine like a baby. I had to feed her there and go with her to the garden for the toilet. One of the times i went to the toilet and get changed she was making so much noise next door came round to see what was going on. She didnt wear the cone as it was so big she couldnt get through the door. Ive been told that this is why Phoebe is so reliant on me when upset or scared and that i shouldnt have done it but i see this as when mine and phoebes bond became strongest and as it was just after her terrible 2's i think it was much needed as there had been days i didnt love her very much.
Another awful day at the vets for me and Georgina. On Saturday afternoon I saw that her left eye looked bloodshot, but she wouldn't let me look at it and it was only when a friend called round between us we managed to see what was wrong. My friend who is a nurse said it looked as though Georgie had injured her eye on something sharp. As I'd only got some Golden Eye Ointment and some antibiotic eye drops the vet had given me I thought it best to leave well alone until this morning's vet's appointment which was to have the stitches in her tummy removed and her eyes checked. Despite not having to wait long, by the time we got into the surgery, Georgie had worked herself into a state of anxiety and had to be half dragged, half carried in. She then had to to undergo the indignity of being rolled onto her side to have the stitches removed which she only did under protest .... how dare they take such liberties with her royal highness .... Princess Pei Face was not amused! Once that was over she had her eyes checked. The right one is fine, but as suspected she has a deep laceration which has been bleeding into her left cornea. As he wasn't sure whether Georgie would need surgery, my vet phoned a couple of specialists who asked him to send photos of her eye. A worrying half hour passed in the waiting room before he came back to say that the consensus of opinion was to try to treat her first with a selection of eye drops. She now has 3 different eyes drops which have to be administered 3 times a day for the next week. I also have to check her eye every day to see whether the blood "blister" in her eye is getting smaller. If it gets larger I have to take her back to the vets immediately. My poor girl she been through so much in her short life and just when I was thinking her eye problems were over ... this happens! At least she's not in any pain for which I'm truly thankful!
Poor Georgina - not so much an awful day as an awful year! All that stress and wrestling at the vets probably made her eye even worse.I do hope she responds to the drops quickly, and gets back to looking like a princess.
i know how you feel. ive had years of this with phoebe back and forth to vets. i should have my own parking space and shares in the place by now. Really hope her eye heals quick and doesnt need surgery
