What a nice picture kicky. Springtime in New York
was always my favorite too. Looking at the house
across the street, you must live in Little Italy
More flowers at my upstairs balcony......
....and I just bought some Sunflowers
We've had a very mild winter so I shouldn't complain but I'm already hoping for signs of spring. Have you seen any?
My snowdrop buds are showing a little white. The smaller song birds are doing a lot of twittering and the woodpeckers are drumming.
It was twenty below last night and I just got a call from a rancher with a cow down with milk fever. Sounds like springtime in the Rockies to me!
always, the last great snowstorm of the season is the day the lambs are born.
LOL, cowdoc.
My mother always said, "Springtime in the Rockies isn't all it's cracked up to be."
I am sorry to break in on the conversation everyone but I need some help fast. I am going to also PM Cowdoc but maybe someone else can help.
A friend of mine has a little dog (I can't remember what kind) and it developed a problem all of a sudden. This is what she emailed me:
Oh Momma, I just left Foxie at the vet as he is running some tests on her eyes...a few days ago I noticed that in her right eye the color was bleeding into the pupil area and then My daughter noticed her right eye wasn't dialating!
After just a few seconds the Vet shook his head and said this was very strange! AND when he checked her by turning out all the lights and looking through his little light thing her Left eye wouldn't dialate!
Hes putting dye in her eyes and doing a pressure test now but he said I will probably have to take her to a specialist. I'm scared Momma...Please say a prayer fo my baby...I have to go back now , I will let you know what I find out.
This lady is so dear to me and she is very scared for this little dog. She lost her Yorkie after nine years and she has only had Foxie for about a year. She rescued Foxie from a shelter. Cowdoc, do you have any idea what this might be? I tried finding out on the net but can't come up with the symptoms.
Sorry again for breaking in folks. I hope you understand.
Lots more questions than answers here, momma. First, how old is Foxie? Second, I don't understand what she means by "color bleeding into the pupil area". Lack of dilation would, regardless of the rest of the clinical signs, indicate a problem within the brain. This function is carried out by two cranial nerves (optic and oculomotor) leaving very little wiggle room for other diagnoses. If Foxie is getting old, my first inclination is toward a stroke or brain tumor. In a young dog, things get more complex. I assume the dye in the eyes is fluorescein. If there are no problems with the cornea (which I expect to be the case) then the dye won't show any abnormalities. Remember, I'm flying pretty close to blind given the available information, so take my conclusions with a real liberal dose of salt. There could be some highly significant clinical findings to which I'm not privy at this distance.
Retinal degeneration makes sense. If there is no reaction to a light source, then it follows that pupil size would not change. The bad news is that there is generally nothing that can be done to correct the condition. Sometimes ya get lucky, though!
Cowdoc,
Thanx so much for your help! I always feel better after talking with you. My friend seemed much calmer and not so scared after that last email.
I told her about a blind cat I had here at the shelter once and how that cat did just fine so she was a bit encouraged by that. I am sure she would much rather it be the retinal degeneration than a brain tumor!
Thanx again Cowdoc!
Everyone, thanx for letting me interrupt your thread! I greatly appreciate it!
We had daffodils poking up in the woods. Strange, strange winter here.
Saw a cardinal this morning.
More acorns are sprouting. Sap is rising in the red maple tree outside my window and the branches spring when the birds perch on them. I can see the horizon until six o'clock.
J_B wrote:We had daffodils poking up in the woods. Strange, strange winter here.
Me too but the winter is not strange, just winter...
I have green things poking out of the ground that I thought were hostas but now I think are daffodils. (Partly because there were a bunch of deer hoofprints in the ground the other day and the shoots are still there, whereas deer evidently loooove hostas...)
