Mom has ANOTHER doc appt tomorrow. This makes 17 in 5 weeks. She's hoping that she'll be able to post a picture of her eye without the sutures tomorrow night. She was wondering if the needle/thread holes will close or if she'll have the equivalent of pierced eyelids? if she cries, will the tears come out of the holes?
i decided that mom should teach us a lesson about eyes.
first, she's going to show you a picture of her right eye. 
if you click to biggify, you'll see the bruising from the injections, and the sutures from the tarsorrhaphy (the accent is on the second syllable). tarsorrhaphy is the suturing of the eyelids to protect the eye.
when the picture is biggified, her eye looks wet because mom uses antibiotic eye drops. now she uses two that alternate on the hour, plus an additional one every four hours. until this past monday, she was using two that alternated on the half hour, plus one that was two times per day. she's a fan of the polder digital timer that she wears around her neck to help keep track of her dosing schedule.
the tarsorrhaphy was done so that mom's eyelid wouldn't scrape across the healing corneal ulcer. before she got her eyelid sutured, she would open her eye after sleep and her eyelid would tear open the ulcer again.
mom's v-e-t said that women who have gone through labor and childbirth say a corneal ulcer is more painful. mom believes that.
here's the lesson: most eye injuries heal in one day. if your human has an eye irritation that lasts longer than one day, insist that she/he go to the v-e-t immediately.
(mom knows that her eyebrow is in pretty sad shape, but she's not about to tweeze or wax while she's got this going on...)
Mom's got a black eye. The outer edges of her right eyelid have been sewn shut to protect her eye so it can heal from a corneal ulcer. It's been ridiculously painful, and Mom lost her sense of humor for awhile. Now that she's feeling a little better, she's thinking she would have made an awesome zombie for Halloween!
We'll post pictures when she finds the camera cable.
yesterday was sure busy! i spent lots of time snoopervising mom's work of cleaning the house. except when she got the sucky monster from uncle jerry's (he lives right next door). i don't like the sucky monster. truth be told, mom doesn't like the sucky monster either.
somebody got mom a 'cup cozee' from http://www.mysistersbag.com/CC-Cats.html. it's really cute...kitty faces! (mom needs to re-learn how to embed links into posts. i'll go pull out the book for her...i'm so helpful!)
can you believe...mom turned on the heat this morning! it was delicious! i tried very hard to convince her to stay home in bed. she turned me down...something about needing to buy kitty food. at least she has her priorities straight!
sometimes mom takes naps with me. she puts her arms around and hugs me tight like i'm a teddy bear. i like this a whole bunch, and i purr and purr. i think she's getting to scoop me up to take a nap with her in just a few minutes. i am a lucky cat!
mmm. naps. cuddly naps. Zzzz
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and the overcast weather we had over the weekend is GONE! it's supposed to be nearly 90 today and tomorrow!
it feels pretty good...and it cools down so nicely in the evening!
