The vet came again on Wednesday. She pulled the stitches out. Granite's eye had almost healed completely! There was a little ulcer, which she said would probably become a small hard white dot, but that he would be able to see around the white dot!!! Praise God that his eye has healed and that he should be able to see out of that eye!

The vet came again on Tuesday. She took the stitches out and found that part of the eye had ruptured causing an ulcer. She did say though that the eye looked very healthy and that there is no fear of him losing his eye completly. We still don't know if he will be able to see out of that eye though. She sewed his eye back up again so the ulcer could heal & she is coming back next week on Wednesday. Please pray that he would not need anything more done that time as this is getting a little expensive :-) But, even while saying that, I thank God that his whole eye didn't rupture & that the vet has a lot of wisdom on what needed done.

We had the vet out on Tuesday. Before she even had seen Granite's eye, she knew that he had got his eye poked. We pulled the stanchion out of my milk barn and put him on that. That way, less people would have to hold him, but he couldn't move around much. After the vet put some numbing eyedrops in his eyes, she gave him a couple shots of numbing medicine in his eyelids. Then she tried to scrape off the white membrane, which was actually his enlarged Cornea! The Cornea had fluid in it that made it enlarged. At first she used a Q'tip, but that didn't work, so she tried with a knife, but that didn't work either. She was able to make a hole in the Cornea, so that it could drain. When she was done with this, she got ready to sew it up. I ran into the house, I was feeling a little sick, with needles, his baaing (he wasn't baaing because he was hurt, but because he didn't like being constrained, but still.... it didn't help things!) When I got into the house, I knew that my body was trying to faint and I was trying to not let it. Mom told me to put my head in between my knees and that helped almost immediately. I then was able to go help hold Granite again. When I got there the sight that met my eyes was a curved needle 1/2 way out of one eyelid and 1/2 way out the other! The vet finished sewing him up then gave me some ointment to put in the eye twice a day. The eyelid isn't completely sewed together, so it can drain. Now we are hoping and praying that the eye doesn't explode or prolapse. We are not sure if he will be blind in that eye or not. The vet is coming next Tuesday to check up on him and take the stitches out.

Granite was born to Grommette and Molassas this year. He is now 4 1/2 months old. A couple of days ago, while we were working outside, Mom noticed that something looked wrong with his eye. I was actually working in the house at that time, so Mom came inside and alerted me. I changed out of my nicer clothes into "goat" clothes. Already he smells like a buck and I did NOT want that smell on my nice clothes! I pulled him out of the buck pen, so I didn't have more bucks around me than I needed to and looked at his eye. His eye had turned completly white with a red rim. It looked like it was protuding out of the eye socket, but on closer examination, I found that there is a membrane that forms a bit of a pocket over the eye. It looks terrible! I am not sure exactly what it is yet, but I have been giving him shots of Bio Mycin, putting drops of eye antibiotics in his eye and giving him minerals and vitamins. I will -if I have time- post updates on him.