Quote Originally Posted by muddoc View Post
Congrats Ed. I am glad she made a full recovery for you.

I had a similar problem about 3 years ago. The difference with mine, is that it was self induced. I had a normal female that I believed had a stuck eye cap. Well I sprayed her down, and let the water soak for about 30 minutes. I went back after the water had time to soften the cap, and removed what I thought was the eye cap. It wasn't a retained eye cap, and what I ended up removing was the protective covering of the eye. After about 3 days, her eye looked like the one in your first photo (minus the cut). I freaked out, propbably about like you, and thought she would be permantly damaged in that eye. Low and behold, after 2 sheds, you coulnd't tell anything was ever wrong. Lesson learned here, was to ensure you have a stuck eye cap before trying to remove what you think is a cap, and may not be.

Once again, I am glad to hear that your girl is doing great.
Thanks Tim,

I am very leery about messing with their eyes because there is such a fine line between help and injury. It went against everything in me to not try and treat the eye with something. But I was told to just leave it alone and watch for infection and keep her tub super clean.

The part that really kept me going was that her pupil stayed responsive to light and she would focus on me any time I looked at it even when it was cloudy.

I am just in aw of how well these animals when cared for properly how resilient they are. I am learning leaps and bounds every week with these things.

I just chalk this up on my experience board and keep the notes I took.

So far I've had burns, rat bites, RI's, internal parasites, granualoma's, regurge, this eye thing.

It is true the more you have the more you see.