This is my Stormy. She is a 9 yr old Female who aparently had some eye problems while I was gone. The red around the outside of the eye seems to be from her scratching it. I am sorry that it is a little blurry. She is in a mood tonight.




We went to the Vet today. She sent three meds home with me.
1. Cipro drops - for the eye
2. Metacam - oral
3. Soother plus ointment - I've never heard of this one, but the Vet says they have been using it and it seems promising to encourage healing.


I also talked to her about this whole cage. There are three in this cage and they all have been loosing weight. So she took a swab of the eye to be sent off to an exotic vet in Maitland for a culture and sensitivity . She hopes this will get us a head start on what is going on with this cage. Maybe there is an infection or fungus or something that they could be passing to each other. If that doesn't tell us what is happening with the cage, it should at least let us know what kind of crud is going on with Stormy's eye. She also gave me the address and Website of the Exotic Vet in Maitland and has already talked to them so that I can go there if this flairs over the weekend or late at night.

I asked the Vet about oral antibiotics and she said that oral antibiotics don't have much affect on areas of the nervous system like the brain the spine and the eyes. So we are putting the Cipro in the eye every 2 hours until we get the results back from the C&S.

Owie! Poor girl!

Here is a link to the website that makes the Soother Pluss. So far I am impressed with what I see after using it for less the 24 hours.

Heal X

The eye itself is still very bad. But the skin around the eye, which is where I am using this cream, seems to be healing and Stormy isn't digging at it anymore. So far, I am really liking this stuff.

Anita, Doodlebug had an eye infection. We were able to finally see a laceration on the eye itself. We had to have the lighting just right and then look at the eye from an angle to see it. If Stormy's been scratching, it could be the same situation. We used Gentamycin for the eye drops in our case. I'll have to look into the Heal X...new to me. I'll be sending good thoughts for you and Stormy.

Poor Stormy. Please feel better and heal fast.

Poor baby.
Please keep us updated. Thank you so much for the information you have provided so far. This is why we are here - to share information that will hopefully help others in the future.

Keeping Stormy and her cage mates in my prayers!

Poor Stormy, that eye just looks awful and painful. Keeping you and Stormy in my prayers. I hope you hear good news from the test results and healing soon.

Poor Little Girl. I know Pink eye is contagious, but I don't know if suggies can get it.
I hope she heals soon and the test brings back conclusive results.

Poor Stormy! Any new update on how she is doing, and how the eye is healing?

I'm sorry that I haven't updated. She is looking a little better but I feel sure that we lost that eye. I should have taken her back to the Vet today but I put it off until tomorrow because I have been a little under the weather. So we will see what the vet says tomorrow.

I hope you can save the eye Anita.

PLease get better yourself!
Let us know what the vet says. Thank you for the update!

I'll be keeping Stormy in my prayers for some good news.

Ok, Stormy seemed to be doing pretty good but when we took her off the antibiotics this flaired up overnight again and it was as bad if not worse than when I first took her to the vet. This is some bad, bad stuff. And the thing that I forgot to tell you is that she stinks. NO, not like a glider stinks. More like a peice of rotting meat stinks.

The Cultures showed four different bacteria in that eye.
1. Alcaligenes
2. Pseudomonas Sp.
3. Enterobacter
4. Staphylococcus

When I asked the Vet what made her stink because I had convinced myself that the eye was rotting inside her head and it was a really bad stank. She said it was the Pseudomonas, and if you've ever smelled Pseudomonas, you will never forget it. I agree. I've for sure never smelled anything lke that from any thing that wasn't already dead.


Thursday I took her back to the vet in Cocoa and then I took her to an Ophthalmologist in Maitland, then I took her back to the Vet in Cocoa so we were on the road all day. We now have meds that I've never heard of. She seems to be improving again, but it feels slower this time. Maybe it's just because we have been giving meds every two hours for what seems like an eternityl

Anyway the Ophthalmonogist prescribed Cefazolin drops for the eye, and vigamox drops for the eye, and baytril orally just in case there is anything systemic going on. And we are continueing the Medecam. The eye is ulcered so we won't be able to save it but we are now just trying to save Stormy.

When Stormy first got sick she was a sweet little girl. Now she cringes when I reach for her. And she fights me like a wild glider. How do those of you who do this all the time, do it? It is wearing on me that she hates me so much.

I have Stormy seperated from her colony but I take her out and let her socialize with them in the early evening. I sit her little cage right next to theirs and the can visit. And I have a wheel in her small cage. Those things seem to sooth her a little.

Stormy is down to 82 grams. That is 3 lower than when we started treatment. So I decided to give her more high calorie food to see if I can get some weight back on her. She should like that. I even gave her a little chunk of bread tonight.

If these antibiotics don't work, or if the infection comes back, the next step will probably be to have the eye removed at UF. I don't know if I will put her through that.

*hugs*