Muffin injured – Now one eye pirate!

Those who had seen my dog or even pictures of my dog would know that his soulful eyes can melt the hardest and coldest of all hearts. However recently a trip to the groomer left his eyes red and swollen… and it is really heart breaking to hear his whines of pain when I added eye drops in an effort to reduce his swelling eyes.

Here is how the story goes. It is the weekend just after Christmas. I made an appointment with the groomer (PLC) at Simei Pet Safari. Muffin has been there a few times and services there had been satisfactory. However this time when I collect him, I notice that he was squinting in his left eye. I though he was having some irritation and that the irritations would go away after he sleeps for a while. Thus, I did not make much fuss at the pet shop, paid my money and brought Muffin home.

Muffin went home and curl up and sleep immediately. In the evening when he woke up, I had a shock as his left eye was so swollen that he could no longer open his eye lid. I tried to pry open his eye to find out what was wrong and I say the reddest eye ever. Dripping eye drops into his affected eye made him howl and whine with such ferocity and it threatens to tear apart our hearts.

Me and my wife panicked and started scouring the net for a 24 hour clinic. But as it was late into the evening and during the holiday season, I could not find a hospital to treat Muffin without burning a deep hole in my pocket. SIGH … without a better alternative, I applied cold compression on the exterior of his eye and keeps dripping eye drops into his affected eye. MY heart was constantly torn apart with his pitiful whining.

The next day I straight away brought him to see the vet clinic nearest my place (under management of Mount Pleasant), which happens to open on a Sunday. After an hour of waiting, the vet diagnosed that poor Muffin had a big ulcer on his cornea The size of the ulcer was about two thirds his eye. The ulcer was likely to be caused by an impact on his eye by a foreign object or friction between his cornea and a foreign object. Luckily the injury was superficial if not his eyeball could have rupture.

So now Muffin is currently the one-eye pirate and recuperating at home. Hope he recover soon.

This is Muffin just before grooming.

And this is Muffin with his red and swollen eye.