Bebe’s 8th birthday last Sunday the 14th
started as any beautiful crisp April day…a walk in the park with her sister,
Cece and my husband, Matt. I was
preparing her birthday breakfast once they returned but noticed that Bebe was
favoring her left eye. I took a look and
saw that something was wrong. Matt
recalled that she had leaned in to smell a rose but had jumped back quickly and seemed fine. It turns out that smelling
the roses on her birthday caused a rose thorn to pierce Bebe’s eye! Off to the emergency vet we all went
(including Cece) on Bebe’s 8th birthday!
We were sent home from the vet and ordered to keep watch for
any complications. Bebe spent a restless, painful night and the next morning her eye was worse. That day she had emergency
surgery by an animal eye specialist, Dr. Nancy Park at Eye Care for Animals in
Chicago, to remove the infection from her eye and graft it from the healthy
part of her eye. OUCH! There was a high risk that she would lose her
eye sight in that eye but we were hopeful.
Unfortunately things took another turn for the worse. The
infection returned to the injured eye. It was looking like another emergency
surgery was in store for poor little Bebe.
Dr. Park consulted with their Wheeling office and decided to
aggressively treat Bebe’s eye infection for two days and then decide about surgery. Bebe was put on a strong regimen of
antibiotics: eye drops every hour and pain shots (that I had to give her) in
order to save her eye. It was touch and go and Bebe was given a 50/50 chance of
having her eye removed. Brave little
Bebe is a fighter. Two days of this
tough regimen and then back to see Dr. Parks.
Lot of prayers and love from everyone poured in for our little
Bebe. Cece, her worried sister, was by
her side the whole time whispering in her ear that she would be okay. Friday came and Bobbi took her back to Dr. Park
to see what was next for our little Bebe.
With fingers crossed Dr. Park took Bebe into her arms and smiled
widely. “She’s getting a little better,”
Dr. Park declared with delight. Bebe
wasn’t out of the woods yet, but was on her way to recovery! Home
Bebe went with 10 more days of intense treatments but no second surgery. Bebe even did one of her favorite things the very
next day…looking out the window!
Cece is very worried about her big sister and is keeping
very close by her. Even
though Cece is youngest, Bebe is the baby and Cece takes care of her.
Sunday Bebe started to eat again and is sleeping through the
night. We are so relieved to begin to see our brave little girl return! Thanks to all the prayers, well wishes and
love…Bebe is on the mend. We still have a ways to go in Bebe's recovery but so far she has proven to be tough for her size and we are very cautiously optimistic.
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