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Last weekend while Delilah and I were at Ericka's being nerdy and WoWing, her eye got all crazy swollen and icky looking and I had to take her to the kitty emergency room. Everyone there was amazingly friendly and super helpful and we were in and out a lot more quickly than I'd expected but the news wasn't quite what I was hoping for. She'd been a little sniffly and had a runny nose for a few days but I assumed she had an upper respiratory infection as is common in a lot of shelter/fostered kittens and had maybe just scratched her eye with her claws. However, it turns out she has FHV-1 (Feline Herpesvirus Type 1) and Chlamydiosis. Both of these are affecting her eyes and are chronic conditions that could have been prevented had she been properly vaccinated so the best the vet said I can do it to give her medication to help control the symptoms, which are a lot like conjunctivitis and if left untreated can result in loss of sight! She's already looking a lot better but even over the course of just a couple days I can see that sometimes it doesn't bother her at all and other times the white, inner lining of her eyes covers a big portion of her eyeball and causes pain. She's got drops for her eyes that she gets every hour, an ointment in them every six hours and a pill that I crush up and give her with food twice a day and she has been such a little trooper. I don't know if she just knows that I'll give her a treat when I'm done or if it makes it feel better but she doesn't even struggle anymore and (for the most part) she's FINALLY adjusting to the little cone she has to wear to keep her from scratching at her eyes.
So with that, I leave you with adorable kitty pictures-- I love how she keeps getting her paw stuck in her cone!
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