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As some of you will know my horsey was in vets last night to get operation this morning. Have just had phone call from the vet saying they couldnt unblock the tear duct, he said they worked on it for a while but they just couldnt get the fluid to move at all. There must be too much scarring. While I am relieved that she has came round ok and is back on her feet I feel terrible that I have put her through this for no reward. Am totally gutted. Poor horsey.
 
Don't feel bad, you don't know until you try these things. A big hug and a carrot will make it all better.
What's the next for poor horsey if it's still blocked?
 
You mustn't think like that, you did your absolute best and if they hadn't tried the op you'd be thinking 'what if....'
 
Was worth a try - and at least she is ok and no worse off than she was before.

Big hugs for you both.
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Vet says there is nothing else that can be done other than manage her eye now. She will need to wear a fly mask all the time even in winter and infections will need to be treated as they occur, she may also need synthetic tears in her eye. It is degenerative and will get worse, she is only five, and the vet says the scarring is pretty bad so she has prob been like this for a while. All I need now is for the insurance company to say they wont pay for the op.
 
HM - I'm sure the vets will advise but be VERY ready to pounce on any episodes of conjunctivitis. Sunny lost his eye 3 years ago and a blocked tear duct was a contributory factor, though we will never know which was cause and which was effect. Sunny's remaining eye is still prone to regular outbursts of conjunctivitis. My vets have spoken with the specialists at the Dursley Equine Hospital and we now manage this by leaving me a regular supply of the greasy antibiotic cream for conjunctvitis. This means that at the first sign of trouble, I can immediately start a 3-day treatment, without having to wait for a call out.

A final note hun, be ultra careful if you now have to put drops/ointment onto your neds eyes on a regular basis. The final insult to Sunny's eye was when yard staff stabbed him in the eye with the sharp pointy end of the plastic ointment tube that was supposed to be helping him. And they didn't bother to tell me. Get the vets to show you how to do it safely. If it's cream rather than drops, the safest way to apply it is to wash your hands and apply the cream to your soft, squashy finger tip, then to ned's eye. Soft finger tips can't further injure your ned if he jerks at the wrong moment. Good luck hun xxx
 
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