Mr. Wendel, Mo Mo, Wesley, and I drove to Annapolis, MD on Friday August 21st 2009 morning for our 10:30am appointment with Dr. Hymen. We were immediately taken aback by how beautiful the building was. It is set by itself with very well maintained landscaping in the front. When you walk in, you are greeted by about 8 really friendly and competent staff of pet lovers. When Mo Mo and Mr. Wendel and I walked in, they all were talking about how sweet and cute they are and being very attentive to them. I sat down and completed the new patient paperwork and the boys sat in the chair next to me. About 20 minutes after I completed the paperwork, we were taken back to the room where Dr. Hymen met with us. She was very nice and really knowledgeable. Her technician, Shelly, was very nice as well. Dr. Hymen did several tests on both of Mr. Wendel’s eyes to check his ocular pressures, tear production, and looked at his retina. There was good news and bad news.
The good news was that she said that Mr. Wendel’s big eye’s (his left eye) retina looked good from what she could see through his corneal pigment. She did say that he would need the surgery. She said that he has some serious pigmentation (which we already knew) that was causing visual impairment for him. She also said that he has a large amount of blood vessels on that eye which she is concerned about so she put him on some mild steroid antibiotics for his eye to shrink the blood vessels.
The bad news was regarding his right eye. We were told that his eye was small due to a congenital defect. Upon further examination, Dr. Hymen told us that his right eye had sustained a serious trauma when he was younger that was evident by a large laceration scar in the middle of his eye. She said that he probably had something that stuck him in his eye when he was young and it was left to get infected. She said that the laceration must have gotten really painful and infected to the point that his eye just stopped developing and that is what caused his blindness and the size of his eye. She did tell us that it doesn’t bother him now, so there is no reason to take it out which we were happy to hear. I was so sad to hear about the pain that he must have endured as a newborn. Dogs are such amazing animals. He went through so much pain and suffering at the hands of these monstrous puppy millers, and he came out a wonderful, cuddly, happy, playful boy on the other side despite the fact that he is half blind. I think that we can all learn something from his strength and forgiveness.
We were given a cost estimate for his surgery (attached in detail). They said that it would most likely be somewhere in the middle of the high charge and the low charge. Dr. Hymen was nice enough to give us a 10% discount so it’s not as bad as I originally thought that it was going to be. Thank you so much for all of you that are interested in helping. As always, feel free to call or email me with any questions, concerns, or just if you want to chat!
The good news was that she said that Mr. Wendel’s big eye’s (his left eye) retina looked good from what she could see through his corneal pigment. She did say that he would need the surgery. She said that he has some serious pigmentation (which we already knew) that was causing visual impairment for him. She also said that he has a large amount of blood vessels on that eye which she is concerned about so she put him on some mild steroid antibiotics for his eye to shrink the blood vessels.
The bad news was regarding his right eye. We were told that his eye was small due to a congenital defect. Upon further examination, Dr. Hymen told us that his right eye had sustained a serious trauma when he was younger that was evident by a large laceration scar in the middle of his eye. She said that he probably had something that stuck him in his eye when he was young and it was left to get infected. She said that the laceration must have gotten really painful and infected to the point that his eye just stopped developing and that is what caused his blindness and the size of his eye. She did tell us that it doesn’t bother him now, so there is no reason to take it out which we were happy to hear. I was so sad to hear about the pain that he must have endured as a newborn. Dogs are such amazing animals. He went through so much pain and suffering at the hands of these monstrous puppy millers, and he came out a wonderful, cuddly, happy, playful boy on the other side despite the fact that he is half blind. I think that we can all learn something from his strength and forgiveness.
We were given a cost estimate for his surgery (attached in detail). They said that it would most likely be somewhere in the middle of the high charge and the low charge. Dr. Hymen was nice enough to give us a 10% discount so it’s not as bad as I originally thought that it was going to be. Thank you so much for all of you that are interested in helping. As always, feel free to call or email me with any questions, concerns, or just if you want to chat!
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