I rushed home as much as you can rush when you are walking.
Buddy was in a bad way when I got home. He was freaking out, his tongue was hanging from his mouth and he was dribbling a river of drool.
The vet said they were booked out but just to bring him and wait. It rained all the way to Fawkner. The windscreen continually fogged up. Buddy was freaking out all the way there in the back with Sam holding him. It seemed to take forever.
The lovely handsome Indian vet attended to Buddy. There is such a thing as sudden blindness in dogs, which most of the time is permanent. It is caused by a number of things, detached retina, glaucoma, high blood pressure, or something neurological, just to mention a couple. It looked like this had happened to Buddy.
The vet took blood and gave Buddy valium in a hope to relax him. And he gave Buddy steroids just in case it was an infection. He took Buddy’s blood pressure and his temperature. He sent away for test to be done.
Buddy seemed to have suffered a catastrophic health event and he may well have gone permanently blind. He may have suffered retina failure. It could be an infection too.
We had to take him to an eye specialist tomorrow.
Even when we got him home, Buddy couldn’t see. He was still highly stressed out by it all. He couldn’t settle. His behaviour was odd and distressing to see. I thought our voices would calm him down, but they didn’t seem to. He even seemed to have trouble lying down.
What were we going to do with a blind dog?
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