[Felvtalk] Dublin woke up from surgery blind

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What do you mean "boxed down?"
On Feb 15, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Kathryn Hargreaves wrote:

> I agree on the Ketamine.   I always ask for gas, and for ferals to  
> be boxed down.
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> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Lee Evans <moonsister22 at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
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> From: Lee Evans <moonsister22 at yahoo.com>
> To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:30 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Dublin woke up from surgery blind
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> Ask the vet if he used Ketamine.  This is an injected anesthesia and  
> many times results in dilated pupils. The dilation lasts anywhere  
> from a day to a week.  Baby Face, a cat I had long ago came out of  
> spay surgery with dilated pupils.  I didn't notice it until the  
> Sunday after the surgery.  We have an animal eye specialist here.   
> He came into the office just to check Baby Face for high eye  
> pressure.  She was normal.  Then he asked what type of anesthesia  
> had been used.  I didn't know so he called the vet who had done the  
> spay.  It was Ketamine.  This drug has since been banned or  
> cautioned for use on humans but vets are still using it on cats and  
> dogs  because it's less expensive and quicker for them to use.  I  
> always ask for the gas method of anesthesia because of Baby Face's  
> experience with this drug.  It could also be the cause of Dublin's  
> agitation if he has a sensitivity to the drug.  If you have an  
> animal eye specialist in your area take Dublin to that vet.  He will  
> put some drops in the eyes and test the pressure.  Dublin could  
> actually have come to you with mild glaucoma since you say that his  
> pupils were mostly not responsive to light..  Glaucoma in animals  
> can be controlled with special eye medication  similar to what  
> humans use to control eye pressure.  Lee
> From: Anne Myles <anne.myles at uni.edu>
> To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:32 AM
> Subject: [Felvtalk] Dublin woke up from surgery blind
>
> I am devastated -- my FeLV boy Dublin had major dental surgery  
> yesterday to remove the rest of his teeth due to severe stomatitis  
> and feline resorptive lesions (his third dental surgery in six  
> months).  He came through OK it seemed, and his bloodwork turned out  
> to be very promising (his mild anemia around December had reversed  
> with his hematocrit in the middle of the normal range).  But  
> something seemed off with agitation and his eyes and the vet  
> realized that Dublin seems to be blind.  He did all the ocular tests  
> they do and nothing physiologically can be found wrong -- no  
> detached retina, no bleed, no evidence of hypoxia, etc.  But only  
> his left eye is even minimally reactive to light.  The vet believes  
> the blindness to be related to the FeLV, although I'm still totally  
> confused about the suddenness of this all.
>
> Dublin has always had something weird about his eyes -- the pupils  
> stay mostly dilated and while they constrict a little it's  
> definitely not like a normal cat.  I wondered if he had an eye  
> problem and could see well even before I adopted him and learned he  
> was FeLV+.  But he seemed to see fine.
>
> While Dublin is physically stable he is apparently extremely  
> agitated and the vet wants to keep him at the hospital until he  
> settles down and begins to adapt.  He was with him until 10:30 last  
> night and says that Dubbie has scarcely been out of a tech's arms  
> since.  (He is the most loving, people-oriented cat, and is not  
> stressed just from being at the vet -- it's almost a joke how much  
> he likes it there.)  I am crazy with distress and also with anxiety  
> about bringing him home (have another cat, pretty rowdy, and a dog),  
> though everyone says blind cats can do well.
>
> I'd appreciate any encouragement -- or in particular any insight  
> into a FeLV-blindness link.
>
> Anne
>
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