Snowball

It has been almost two years since we adopted the fur babies.  Sarah has proven to be the dominate cats and acts like she runs the house. She has recently taken a liking to eating sock lint and glares at us if we do not give her enough attention. Snowball on the other hand, has had a lot of issues since we have had her. She is constantly sneezing and starts to weez if she gets too excited or over works herself. In the past two years, there have been a couple times that she has had an eye infection. Her eye swells shut and sometimes leaks a yellowish fluid. Within a couple days to a week or so, the eye infection clears on its own and she is back to being herself.

Not long ago, we noticed that her eye happened to look infected again. Rapidly, she stopped eating and was hiding under furniture. We figured that the infection would go away on its own like times past. Over a week went by and we started to worry that something was seriously wrong. We started administering eye drops and trying to hand feed her in hopes that it would help.

The left side was taken at the beginning stages of the eye infection. The right side is a few days after administering the drops. 

It took two weeks worth of giving her eye drops three times per day before we noticed a difference. The swelling in her eye had gone away, but the eyeball itself was clouded over. She started eating again and not hiding as often. At first we could notice that she was having a hard time with her depth perception. 

This was taken one week after we were done with the eye drops. This is when we noticed that there was some vision loss. 

It has since been a little over two months since this happened. She is back to eating normally and no longer hides under the furniture. Her eye is not as cloudy, but we are certain that there is still some vision problems in that eye.

This is the most current picture of her. As you can tell, she has gotten her energy back. It is hard to get her to sit still so that I can take a photo! 

I never knew that my heart would grow so big for these furry animals. It physically hurt my heart to watch her suffer. Considering that we adopted them when they were older, I am now realizing that we are not going to have much time left with them. As much as I hate cleaning up their puke and constantly trying to rid the house of cat hair, I don't know how I will ever be able to live without them. I am certain that I have turned into a crazy cat lady. I even talk to them as if they are human. To all my fellow cat owners, go snuggle your fur baby even if they are being grouchy! Life is short.