Rolling Dog Farm Blog

I took Charlie to our vet in Helena, Dr. Brenda Culver, for a thorough follow-up eye exam this afternoon.  Typically our ophthalmologist, Dr. Bill Yakely in Spokane, wants to see his patients one week after the cataract surgery to assess how their eyes are doing.  In our case, given our distance from Spokane and Brenda's ophthalmology skills and diagnostic tools, she can do the exam for Dr. Yakely and then report back to him.

A couple of days ago he talked with Brenda about the complication he had with the capsular tension ring in Charlie's left eye, and he sent her a drawing explaining what to look for and how to determine whether it had migrated any further.

In the photo at top, Brenda is checking Charlie's eye pressures with her Tono-Pen while vet tech Jayme holds him.  His eye pressures were perfectly normal. 

In this next photo, Brenda is using her slit-lamp (an ophthalmic microscope) to examine his eyes and in particular, the location of the capsular tension ring in his left eye:

She found it was still in the same spot Dr. Yakely had indicated it should be, meaning it hasn't migrated any further.  That is good news, and means we won't need another round of surgery to re-set it.

We are very fortunate to have Brenda as our primary care vet for many reasons, but this was yet another example of why we feel that way:  She's the only veterinarian in Montana that could do this kind of exam on behalf of an ophthalmologist … and that saved us another trip back to Spokane!

Finally, here's a close-up of a Beagle eye that can now see:

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Wow — still No. 2!

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